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2000-05-17 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Hi All this might be one for the fbritish GISers amongst us but maybe not. i have a OSCAR (Ordnance Survey Centre Alignment of Roads) dataset. My problem is that it represents Motorways and dual carriageway roads with 2 centrelines (one for each carriageway). i need to remove one of these link

MI MapInfo and ArcView 8.x

2000-07-12 Thread jonathan stokes
Hi Mappers just a quick question to see if anyone has noticed the ESRI announcement on ArcView 8.1. It looks like it'll be be a 'cut down' version of ArcInfo 8.0 combined with the current ArcView 3.2 with all the object orientated geographic objects and open system architecture goodies that this

RE: MI French Translation

1999-07-23 Thread Jonathan Stokes
wha about having tis on the universal translator for MI6.0 ??? shp > tab, e00 > tab French > english .. >-Original Message- >From: Leduc, Yannick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 4:01 PM >To:'MapInfo-L' >Subject: RE: MI French Translation > >Hi, >

MI Distance Tables

1999-07-23 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Hello list does anyine know of a method/utility whereby i can do the following. i have a coverage of 2800 points and i need to have for each record in the file the distances to every other point in the coverage within 100 miles. obviously there will be multiple records in the ouput file i.e reco

MI Re: Jumping to a Specific View

1999-08-05 Thread Jonathan Stokes
ahoy listers a MapBasic question here (and i imagine it will be dead simple). i have a number of MI tables that make up a map of the UK when opened togther in the same mapper window. one of the tables contains a series of regions within the UK (there are quite a lot of them - approx 180. we've wrt

RE: MI trouble combining complex polygons

1999-08-20 Thread Jonathan Stokes
or even better..., if you choose the 'create points' option and get handy little markers to tell you where the errors are, they are (invariably) in the wrong place. like an error in Scotland apperas to be in the middle of the atlantic. which was nice so shall we take up andy bailey's sug

Selecting via record no in MI

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Mornin All (well that depends on the timezone but never mind...) At the moment i'm trying to import MapInfo data into a slightly non standard GIS system. The trouble is the files i am bringing in are pretty large (100,000 - 500,000 records). The system i am importing to (via mif/mid) can only ha

RE: MI Object oriented programming for Map Basic

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Stokes
another couple of cents this is all starting to sound a lot like what ESRI did with Arc/Info 8. If you could develop in VB say VC++ or delphi or whatever that would make a lot of peoples lives a lot easier. Personally i do a lot of data processing in MI and the ability to get the VC++ develo

Re: Selecting via record no in MI (SUM)

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Stokes
hello all well it looks like i've got a response to the question. to use the ROWID function to select the records. It sounds like the best idea is to add a temp column to the table. populate it using the rowid function and then select on that. ta to andy bailey, ewa, grant, martin & laurence. jo

MI Friday Humour

1999-09-03 Thread Jonathan Stokes
for all those who've ever called any tech support line in the world ever... (bill please don't take offense at the na)me.. Date: 09/03/1999 04:08 pm (Friday) Subject: Support ? Patron: Waiter! Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I'll be your Support. Waiter. What seems to be the proble

MI Clipping Polygons

1999-09-08 Thread Jonathan Stokes
ayer is in some cases 'bigger' than the layer it is being used to clip. SO i need some way of snapping the layer that is being clipped to the layer that is used to clip it. (?***!!^&&&!!!) hope that make sense any ideas would be really gratefully accepted. ch

MI FW: Selecting on text

1999-09-11 Thread Jonathan Stokes
> >here's an interesting one.. > >am trying to pull out selected records from a rivers dataset. when i do >the query as follows ALL the records in the dataset are selected... > >Where Condition Name = "River Thames" Or "Thames" > > > >am doing this in MI 4.5.2 WHY ---

RE: What is MI's market share in the US and abroad?

1999-09-29 Thread Jonathan Stokes
I Don't know but i witnessed an interesting spectacle the other day. i was at the GIS show in London and the MapInfo and ESRI stands had their demo/lecture areas in close proximity. thus i was able to see the ESRI guy (talking about ArcIMS) try to talk down the MapInfo Guy (MapX). all highly amus

MI: Error Importing MIf Files

1999-10-26 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Hello i'm having a few problems importing from mif/mid in MI 4.5.2 (yes i know but they won't buy me 5.5). the files in question were created using an in house utility that builds them from Atlas GIS Bna format files. At the moment it will import approx 100 records before i get an error message

MI OS DG Resignation

1999-10-29 Thread jonathan stokes
Afternoon all i would suggest that Geoff Robinson's resignation come a bout as a result of the frustrations of working with a notoriously slow moving and conservative Government Agency. As someone who works with the OS and their datasets on a regular basis i can entirely understand this. The who

MI Tessellation Software

1999-11-03 Thread jonathan stokes
Mornin/Afternoon/Evenin depending on the time zone does anyomne know of any software aside from vertical Mapper than will create thiessen polygons around points (basically a tessellation routine). doesn't matter whether it is an add on or a stand alone thing. cheers Jon S = _

MI GIS File Formats

1999-11-15 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Hi All at the moment I'm after a website (or websites) that has info on GIS file formats (i.e. shp/mif/tab are etc) that gives a technical description of how they work etc etc. Bit obscure I know but I have a developer pestering me about such things I know of one which is http://www.wotsit.org/

MI MapBasic Questions from a beginner

1999-12-02 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Hello all And when I say beginner I mean it! be very warned. what I need to do is the following (mapbasic 4.1 and mi 4.5) I have just done an update column on a table and then a query into a table called selection. I then want to open a browser window for selection but only if there have been

MI Renaming a Mapper Window

1999-12-07 Thread Jonathan Stokes
Hi All Anyone Know how to rename a Mapper window in MapBasic ? (i.e. if I have a string held in a variable how can I give the MapWndow that name) cheers Jonathan Jonathan Stokes GIS Analyst *** Geoplan, 14 - 15 Regent Parade, Harrogate

RE: MI Renaming a Mapper Window

1999-12-07 Thread Jonathan Stokes
OK ignore that I just did the classic tech support RTFM DOH!!! > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Stokes > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:36 AM > To: 'MapInfo Listers' > Subject: MI Renaming a Mapper Window > > Hi All > Anyone Kno

MI Adding Map Layers

1999-12-10 Thread Jonathan Stokes
doing Query > Unselect All anyone any ideas on why this is ? laters Jon. Jonathan Stokes GIS Analyst *** Geoplan, 14 - 15 Regent Parade, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5AW. tel 00 44 (0) 1423 569 538 extn 2701 fax 00 44 (0) 1423

RE: MI Adding Map Layers

1999-12-10 Thread Jonathan Stokes
]] Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 4:50 PM To: Jonathan Stokes Subject: RE: MI Adding Map Layers no, there must be something in the code that leaves the tables selected, it is as simple as that... the code could have a line to "Unselect All" (I think you'd actually do a Run Menu Co

RE: To all on the MI-L help list!

1999-07-15 Thread Jonathan Stokes
well.. someone accidently mails the list a joke that was meant only for friends people then argue with that person as to the nature of that joke other people then argue about whether or not to argue about the joke oh yes what fun >-Original Message- >From: Antoine Gilbert [SMTP:[EMAIL P