Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
How do you go about "reading it into Maptitude"? Do you open it as an
Excel (.xls) file, or do you first save in another format (such as Dbase
(.dbf))? Are the rows in the Excel table formatted as "number" with
decimals set to 6 places, or are they the default format?
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From: Health Maps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:37 AM
To: Maptitude
Subject: [Maptitude] Reading an Excel file into Maptitude
Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
I have an Excel file with longs and lats (death records) with 6 decimal
places.
When I read it into Maptitude the resulting dbf that is then used to
make the point map, has been rounded off the numbers to 2 decimal
places. Sometimes is works, often it doesn't. Looking at the Modify
Table dialogue there are only 2 decimals there. How do I reliably avoid
this? I tend to go back and re-format the xls file columns with the long
and lat (usually they are the way I want them already), but its not
clear what the real problem is. The columns are wide enough (not a dbf
clipping of decimals because they are hidden)
Thanks
Richard Hoskins
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