Greetings,
A few days ago I asked about doing advanced mathematical operations in
MapBasic. I received one reply and some additional help from colleagues at
work. My needs were to do interpolation, sorting and matrix inversion,
among others.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sorry, I lost the name) recommended any of the
"Numerical Recipes" books that are available. I had forgotten about these
books and that was a welcome reminder.
I then found, unfortunately, that MapBasic cannot handle multi-dimensional
arrays. So much for inverting a matrix.
Some office mates made the following suggestions:
[1] Switch to ArcView and work in Map Object (which we have).
[2] Work in MapX (which we don't have).
[3] Work in VB and run MapInfo in a VB shell.
[4] Do all operations manually off-line in Excel and/or Maple, MatLab,
etc..
[5] Switch to SAS/GIS (which we have).
MapX turned out to not be a feasible option because of expense (we are a
dot-edu). I decided, instead on [3]. I should be able to write all of the
advanced operations in VB and write a VB shell that will run both the VB
and MI code.
Thanks again for the suggestion (and the overall friendly and helpful
atmosphere in the list).
Steve Riese
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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