Dear Dave
The items you see in the browser are data attributes. Although you
happen to know they represent the position of your object, MapInfo does
not!
However you can update either way. You can get the x,y values of your
point using the function ObjectGeography(obj,1) for Easting and
ObjectGeography(obj,2) for Northing and using update column. You also
need to set the coordsys clause to BNG before doing the above update or
you will get lat long.
You have already done the process the other way for the whole file.
However you can also update the obj itself. I would recommend using
MapBasic for this.
Incidentally the Easting, Northing of the point are held in the MAP
file, whereas the field values in the browser are in the DAT file.
Hope this helps.
Bob Young
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MapInfo Strategic Partner UK
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Eagle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Just a quick observation really. Using the British National Grid
>coord system I have a browser full of eastings and northings. I
>selected Table > Create Points and chose the correct columns to
>pull out the coords. All Ok... If I now wish to change the location of
>these points as a few eastings/northings are incorrect. So I altered
>the info in the browser expecting the geographical entity to move to
>its new position, I was surprised that it didn't. I'm aware that to
>change the point locations I can select the point and click on Get
>Info and then change said coords, but this doesn't update the
>browser...Any ideas? Should I have gone about it differently?
>
>TIA, Dave
>
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