Re: Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!)
Brien: ah yeah you throw me I didn't even notice the box and was wondering where your message was... Still it wouldn't my first vote for MapInfo-L to join the rest of the world in having that little box in every posting.. I think a less intrusive form of sponsorship thing may be easier? Depends how much it costs...heck, several people would probably be interested in spending something to be this quarter's sponsor and have a one-time announcement and also a mention on the archive page and list description on directions mag...heck yeah depending on the cost my company might be eager to cover it indefinitely...I'm more concered about filtering out the spam, rejecting the unsubscribe requests and protecting us from malfunctioning, crazed mail servers...not sure how that would be coordinated.. I think the eGroups business model where people constantly define new groups which ebb and flow the ad banner is the appropriate revenue stream? Not my place to say but would imagine for DirectionsMag given the comparatively miniscule traffic a quarterly sponsorship is better? (on the other hand this is a very targeted audience...i have no idea what i'm talking about) Eric - Original Message - From: "Brien Green" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:32 PM Subject: Re: Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!) *** This is a Sample ad, Only a sample ad. The Advertiser in this add will help you keep this service free. For a few lines of space all this knowledge and access can remain free. Thank you for your attention *** Brien -Original Message- From:John Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:55:28 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!) Bill, Going back to the early days when you asked for voluntary contributions would be a start. I fully appreciate the odious response when you ask freeloaders for dough on something they believe SHOULD BE FREE. There are many companies, like mine, that have used the list to further our business and we SHOULD PAY for it. There are other companies whose employees use the list to further their business interests but who, as employees, have no authority to authorize payment and would be hard pressed to persuade those who sign the checks that it is a worthwhile investment. A simple, for a start solution would be to set out a budget and ask for help in meeting it. Companies like mine would respond; a lot of folks would not, but all their contributions to the list make it a valuable business asset for those of us who would happily pay a fee to keep the list from going away. I have no objections to viewing advertising. I mean, like where do you go for anything that hasn't got some message wrapped into it? I just throw out 50% of the Sunday paper and fast forward through the ads on the rental video. As for the chronic whiners, "Adios, MF". Best, - Original Message - From: Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:41 AM Subject: Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One Comment about the advertising with the e-mail. Don't do it! That's the sort of thing that could run me off from this list faster then any thing else. Would you be willing to pay a subscription fee to get the list mail then? How do you suggest we afford the service? Would you prefer twice-yearly fund drives like they do for public broadcasting? It's been free because I managed to get a good deal at Colorado Supernet for the last 6 years. That made it cost so little (and was helped by some donations and the proceeds of an auction) that my business carried it these last few years. It cost $14.95/mo plus my time, which was gladly given because it has also been good for my business. But SuperNet got bought out by Qwest/US West, and because SuperNet isn't profitable enough for the big wheels, the wheels are closing down that service. The hard, cold Morlocks meet the Eloi of the Internet. In a perfect world advertising serves to connect people who have needs to products and services that answer those needs, and that's the goal we would try to attain. I am all too aware that in our real world, advertising also tries to *create* needs and wants and stick a straw into your wallet and suck hard. We all know that activity sucks, but is there any creative solution that we can come up with where we can generate enough cash to pay for the infrastructure we need to make this list a success? Lists do not
MI standard Mil Survey ASRP raster mapping
Dear List: Does anyone have experience with standard Mil Survey ASRP raster mapping in MapInfo? How would you suggest going about doing this? If you e-mail directly to me I will summarize.. Thanks! Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question
Dennis: Well, occasionally there are some extremely large and/or frequently updated datasets where it would be useful to be able to map Shape directly..maybe in the MB to open you could specify the projection (e.g. always NAD '83) so it wouldn't have to be Interactive.. I realize you can batch imut.exe but it's not suitable for files that take 1.5 hours to convert.. I don't know.. just a thought. MI Pro 6.5? Eric - Original Message - From: "Waardenburg, Dennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: RE: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question Eric, I've never heard of any plans to incorporate this into MI. But if they did, it wouldn't really be much different than the import process is now. You'd still have to explicitly describe the projection/coordsys before the shape file could be read, and that's all you really have to do now when using the Univeral Translator. Once ESRI gets their act together and incorporates coordsys info into their files, I expect that we'll see native read capabilities in MI. Dennis -Original Message- From: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:31 AM To: Waardenburg, Dennis Subject: Re: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question I am so excited..I did not know MI had implemented this...any idea if/when will they add this to MI Pro? - Original Message - From: "Waardenburg, Dennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 7:38 AM Subject: RE: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question Richard, The major drawbacks you describe are the result of shortcomings native to Shape files, not MapX. Shapefiles contain neither the projection/coordinate system nor the object style info for the layer, as Mapinfo TABs do. MapX can't read information that isn't there, so it's necessary for the coder to provide it. Dennis Waardenburg GIS Specialist The Environmental Company, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 5:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question Dave, MapX 4.x can read display native ESRI shape files using the 'Map.Layers.Add LayerInfoObject' method. There is a major drawback though - you have to know the projection of the data and specify that in the 'LayerInfoObject' - MapX does not seem to be able to get the projection from the shape file itself. MapX also renders the goemetry in the MapX default styles. Richard Burkmar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 August 2000 22:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question Does anybody out there know of any information regarding the reading and editing of ESRI Shapefiles using the MapX language? Cheers Dave Williams Montgomery Watson -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI and Manifold
umm i am interested but have not had the experience with it to give a definitive answer. 1.) 4.5 is NOT going to replace MI by any means.. for one the labeling is always horizontal, in other words you cannot print a usable street map. 2.) also, I understand trying to do a consistent layout for paper output exactly sucks (just hearsay) 3.) yet, I heard one lister refer to it as a pocket arc/info in the sense that it has plenty of alghorithms---what they call solvers, and built-in tools to accomplish some nice analysis...also it has perfect import/export capability so you can use it to complement MI. (I'm sure you can do all this analysis in MB, just have to get familiar with Fetch First/Next and the like..our firm has dozens of such scripts but not always so immediately reusable.. so in that sense learning Manifold's interface and quirks for doing analysis may save time compared to baking your own) 4.) I mentioned R4.5... they have a R5.0 slated for sometime perhaps this year would be cool that might be worth evaluating (note due to their funky promotional pricing I think you're still better off buying R4.5 and then upgrading) Anyway, I'm definitely going to see if R5 has the goods and may invest developing real skills in it... if nothing else for them, if their marketing interests users like me and if 1/3 of us cough up the couple/few hundred bucks--pennies compared to more seats of AV or MI--they might have the dough to pay their programmers.. just an off-the-cuff response, hope it hits the mark.. please correct me and elaborate where I am wrong other listers... Eric Note: this sort of disturbs me (and still I like it) that we discuss other GIS's and any topic actually on this MI-list... I just know arcview-l is moderated--they've turned down a few of my innocuous queries about intl data--but to add to the discussion regarding MI's marketing (I noticed several posts regarding their education sector efforts) couldn't MI pony up to allow BT or anyone to sift through stuff? at least we would not be a prime deliver of KAK...(pun intended) - Original Message - From: "John Maguire" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 6:12 PM Subject: MI and Manifold Dear all, I recently discovered the web site for "Manifold GIS" http://www.manifold.net/index.html. Is it as good as they say? Has anyone out there had experience using both MI and Manifold, how do they compare? I'm trying to talk my boss into investing but he is loath to introduce another GIS system to the office. Is it worth getting to do some of the functions only MapInfo add-ons can perform at a considerable extra expense? Any comments would be appreciated. TIA John John Maguire Cartographer QNT GPO Box 1010 Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia Phone: +61 7 3228 6812 Fax: +61 7 3228 6663 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network
Natalie, Tim: You can just open the workspace with a text editor like notepad and change the drive letter (and path if necessary) in the open statements.. The best solutions I came across when we were doing p2p is to place a subst statement in the autoexec on whatever computer is hosting the files and pick a standard drive letter. The subst makes it basically map a local drive or folder to a new drive letter, so for instance my C:\Work directory also appears as the L:\ drive. (check "subst /?") I think you would go: "subst L: C:\Work" Then if I set a share on C:\Work and people map that as L:\, we can share workspaces without a hitch... (I just have to remember not to click at c:\work when I want to do stuff, I need to go to the L:\ drive.) I think at one point, my computer was the L:\ drive, my neighbor's was the W:\ drive, and there was also an S:\ drive on someone else' computer...something like that. Anyway, just a precaution about peer-to-peer, there are viruses which will scan the network for unprotected shares, grab saved and cached passworks from the registry and hunt for Windows system folders to infect, so try to avoid sharing anything above your windows folder like C:\ ;) hope this is of some assistance, let me know if I can clarify anything, Eric - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: RE: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network PLEASE pass on any info. We've been struggling with the same problem for some time now. TIA Natalie -Original Message- From: Tim Warman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:57 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network Listers, Has anyone run into the problem of sharing workspaces that were created on one machine, across a W98 peer-to-peer network? The problem is that all the file paths in the workspaces start with C:\, and of course that's not how the other machines on the network see my hard drive. I sure someone has dealt with this before. Cheers, _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars
I think I am not clear on the complaint or how save as default is the solution. when you're working with the buttons a lot occasionally you hit in the 'edge' area instead of right on the buttonpad and swish it swaps positions with something else or floats away... I am starting to get the hang of the mouse now with you know like 15 years practice but I still manage to do this at least once a month. is there a GlueAll API? maybe a function in WinBatch - Original Message - From: "Bill Thoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MapInfo-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: Re: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars Arrange the buttonpads in the normal way and then using a 1/4" Kluge, bore out two holes on either end of the buttonpads. Apply some Gate's GlueAll to the back of the buttonpad, wait until it's tacky (in Windows, things become tacky almost immediately), and press buttonpad firmly in place. Then secure with a pair hardened hacker bolts, and torque until the heads snap off (this insures that nobody else will ever mess with your settings). Or you could just anchor them in any position, docked, floating ir hidden, with Options/Toolbars and check the "Save as default" checkbox. Also feel free to contact your vendor and raise hell any time. That's what vendors are for! ;-) - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet David Reid wrote: I had hoped that one of the many bugs an upgrade would fix, would be the ability for the user to nail down those blasted, floatable toolbars! PLEASE!!! Has anyone found a fix for this??? David Reid GIS/Database Mngr Colbert County E-9-1-1 Colbert County, Alabama [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: MI Is MapInfo going to die?
Zoran, Alex: I'm sure the Manifold marketing guy would love to key in here haha.. I think if they could update the interface to look like Office 2000 (---especially the crazy buttonpads!) that would go a long way to allay such comments like this, even though it's really just window dressing (excuse the pun) but I don't know how hard that is, maybe they just need to hire a couple decent windows programmers who could knock that out in a few weeks. 6.0.1 patch? just a suggestion... I love MapInfo Pro, so flexible and handy for GIS work, my favorite work tool... but have to admit I am curious about ESRI's vapor announcements regarding the new ArcView and wonder in darker moments if MapInfo is actually more focused on landing more enterprise clients like Sprint. Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc. - Original Message - From: "Markovic, Zoran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'ITSSA-Gerencia'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:30 PM Subject: RE: MI Is MapInfo going to die? I agree with you Alex. But, MapInfo is only following the product strategy of all other software companies - the common practice in the industry. This strategy is to keep the workhorse product, such as MapInfo Pro, as a bait - the first product that you buy. Then, they sell you all additional features as add-ons, extras and additional products. This is why MapInfo Pro has "not advanced much". But, the range of add-ons is getting bigger and better (and more costly). Also, MapInfo is a fairly clean and stable software product, comparable with the best practice of the software industry, arguably better than MS-Office. I am pritty sure that MapInfo will have version 7 and 8 etc but those will not have major improvements either (compatibility with Oracle and 3D rendering were the only two real improvements over the last couple of years). Just keep budgeting for the very expensive add-ons if you want to do any useful GIS work. Zoran Markovic -Original Message- From: ITSSA-Gerencia [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2000 8:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Is MapInfo going to dead ? Is Mapinfo and Mapbasic going to dead ?? Anyone knows if will be a Mapinfo 7.0, 8.0 etc .. And MapBasic ? Will exist MapInfo and Mapbasic in 5 years ? I saw the improvements made in the last 3 releases are very poor at least for my expectant. Are the list agree with me ? regards, Alex ** Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) ** -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo
What is wrong with this code: Include "MapBasic.Def" Dim szLayerName As String szLayerName = LayerInfo(FrontWindow(), 1, LAYER_INFO_NAME) Fetch First From szLayerName Dim obj_type As Integer obj_type = ObjectInfo(szLayerName.obj, OBJ_INFO_TYPE) I have tried all sorts of work-arounds like assigning the object to an object variable and Run Command but have not hit on the solution. Thanks in advance! -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo
Yannick Leduc, That works perfectly...thanks for such a fast response! Eric - Original Message - From: "Leduc, Yannick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: RE: MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo Hi Eric, try this: Include "MapBasic.Def" Dim szLayerName As String szLayerName = LayerInfo(FrontWindow(), 1, LAYER_INFO_NAME) Fetch First From szLayerName Dim obj_type As Integer Dim objt As object dim Alias_obj As Alias alias_obj = szLayerName+".obj" objt = alias_obj obj_type = ObjectInfo(objt, OBJ_INFO_TYPE) When I use a Fetch, I define an alias that will point the object, and then, I put the object in a variable. It works. I hope it will do the same for you. Good luck Yannick Leduc -----Message d'origine- De : Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : 14 août, 2000 13:09 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo What is wrong with this code: Include "MapBasic.Def" Dim szLayerName As String szLayerName = LayerInfo(FrontWindow(), 1, LAYER_INFO_NAME) Fetch First From szLayerName Dim obj_type As Integer obj_type = ObjectInfo(szLayerName.obj, OBJ_INFO_TYPE) I have tried all sorts of work-arounds like assigning the object to an object variable and Run Command but have not hit on the solution. Thanks in advance! -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI SUM: Mapping Out U.S. Economic Growth and Employment Data by County
I was looking for econ growth and employment data by county for the US a last week for a mapping project and said I'd summarize... +The employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is wonderful! You can download about 240 MB of text files that have the data for EVERY month going back more than 10 years for several levels of geography including county. This is at: http://stats.bls.gov/lauhome.htm go to FTP | Local Area Unemployment Statistics. +The Bureau of Economic Analysis has data at: http://www.bea.doc.gov They have Gross State Product and income data by county for 1977 to 1997 (1998 #'s to be released later this year). You could probably use the Gross State Product and fudge it into a Gross County Product using the income data...(maybe even use the census state pop projections to extend the data...census.gov) So far everything's free. Another source with all this data as well as many other variables at the county level can also be purchased from a research outfit at http://www.rfa.com ... go to Products | Forecast Services | RFA Forecast Data Buffet | Counties. I think their salesperson said theycompile this quarterly. The RFA stuff is expensive but may be a bargain depending on your needs. Hope this is of use to someone, sorry it isoff-topic on the MapInfo list...(though MapInfo does have proportionately more business users ?) I'll look for a business geographics list.
MI economic data
Hi: Does anyone know where I can get good economic growth and employment data at the county level? Does a government agency disseminate this? Thanks Eric
Fw: MI economic data
Hola Mappers, At a fine suggestion (see below), I've decided to re-post my query: I am looking for U.S. economic data by county for retail purposesin particular fast food. Something like Gross County Product like the Gross State or Gross Domestic Product would be ideal, or whatever is the most decent proxy for that...perhaps income? perhaps employment? Any suggestions are welcome...IWILL summarize ( in the arcview-l traditionmy last query regarding units of measurement in Puerto Rico generated literally dozens of posts to the list ) so just send your responses to me please, i'll summarize. Eric P.S. Be assured this is the moreinteresting list.. :) Hi Bill - Original Message - From: Steve Smith To: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: Re: MI economic data EricMapInfo-L is an international user group. You need to be a little morespecificwhen you ask for data. You should probably include a brief summary ofwhat thedata is to be used for and the coverage you require so that you have abetterchance of acquiring useful data.Best of luckSteve"Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc." [EMAIL PROTECTED]on08/06/2000 07:42:48To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: (bcc: Steve Smith/Staff/ABS)Subject: MI economic dataHi:Does anyone know where I can get good economic growthand employment data at the county level?Does a government agency disseminate this?ThanksEric
MI US Virgin Islands and Jamaica
Hi Mappers: I am looking for streets and demographics for the US Virgin Islands and Jamaica. Geoscape.com lists detailed streets for Jamaica. Does the US Census operate in the Virgin Islands? (census.gov is innacessible at the moment.) I will summarize.. Thanks, Eric
MI miles or kilometers
quick question... does Puerto Rico always use KM? I have addresses with KM markers so I assume it is kilometers? then for reference: Is the U.S. the only country using miles? How about the British? Hawaii must be miles? Thanks! Eric
MI batch generation
Hi GIS-ers: I'm trying to do a command-line conversion with the Universal Translator, it seems to work fine like this: L:\HRAGiS\Tools\imut generate Shape MapInfo m:\streets\shape street_convert.fmeL:\HRAGIS\Tools\imut street_convert.fme --SourceDataset m:\streets\shape --DestDataset m:\streets\mitab Except! How do I specify a coordinate system?? It comes in as Non-Earth and I need to specify Lat/Lon NAD 83... Or, is there a better tool to do this? Thanks a bunch in advance! I will summarize. Eric
MI The Islands
Mappers: I am working on a GIS for a major client and they are curious about detailed street and demographic data for the French Antilles, Jamaica, Trinidad, Bahamas, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance! I will summarize. Eric
MI Hong Kong Data
Hi Mappers, I am looking for Hong Kong datadetailed street data, demographics, business points, traffic counts, and possibly other data... If you know of any vendors or sources please let me know..I would appreciate it! Thanks! Eric
MI Inexpensive Puerto Rico Data
Hi: I am looking for Puerto Rico data, particularly demographics, for Puerto Rico...anyone know of a reasonably-priced (or free) data source? Thanks! Eric
MI Voronoi Polygons
Hi Folks: I'm sure I used to have a tool that would create voronoi polygons but I seem to have misplaced it! As I remember, it was very slow, but gave you an option to put in a maximum radius---so that a store with no other store within a few miles could just appear as a circle with 2 mile radius for instance... Any ideas? Thanks! Eric
MI LARGE # of Shape Files to Tab
Hi: I have about 3140 shape files I would like to convert to tab..the Universal Tranlator GUI does not allow me to choose this many files.. Anyone have experience converting tons of shape to tab? What's the best way to go? When I tried doing this at the command line with imut.exe it generates a 30 MB fme file: L:\HRAGiS\Tools\UT\imut generate Shape MapInfo r:\mydata\shape myfme.fme this next step takes about 12 hours to read the fme fileand then doesn't get very far doing the actual conversion beforereporting "system low on resources" and stopping: L:\HRAGIS\Tools\UT\imut myfme.fme --SourceDataset r:\mydata\shape --DestDataset r:\mydata\mitab Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work? Should I generate a huge batch file with these two imut lines and convert each file separately? Thanks! Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI SDE and MapInfo
Hello Mappers! We need to integrate very closely with one of our main client's SDE server. Of course we have started using ArcView more lately to connect to it but we are a MapInfoshop.. blah blah blah enough history. What is the state of SDE and MapInfo integration? What can be accomplished, automated in an end-user application, etc? Anythingnew on the horizon? Also, what third-party companies have offerings in this area? All insights appreciated! I will summarize. Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc.
MI annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro?
Dear Mappers: With Windows2K Pro and MapInfo 6.0 beta, when I have a MapInfo running and double-click on a table or a workspace in Explorer, it loads it into the currently running MapInfo rather than starting a new instance. Is this a "feature" of Windows 2K or MapInfo 6.0 beta? How can I turn off this "feature"? Thanks for any help or insights in advance! Eric Frost
Fw: MI annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro?
Mappers: Steve Wallace suggested I turn off DDE under Tool | Folder Options | File Options.. this worked perfectly. I tried retaining the original entry (as an option in the context menu) but Win2K Pro seems to have trouble setting the defaultassociation.. oh well. Anyway, just turning off DDE handles it. Thanks Eric - Original Message - From: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:36 AM Subject: MI annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro? Dear Mappers: With Windows2K Pro and MapInfo 6.0 beta, when I have a MapInfo running and double-click on a table or a workspace in Explorer, it loads it into the currently running MapInfo rather than starting a new instance. Is this a "feature" of Windows 2K or MapInfo 6.0 beta? How can I turn off this "feature"? Thanks for any help or insights in advance! Eric Frost
MI San Salvador Street Data
Dear Mappers: Our firm is preparing a quote for a few studies in San Salvador that requires detailed street data. I received a price of several thousand $$ but the studies probably aren't that valuable and the project will not fly, at least not with GIS -- we would probably just use current paper maps. Anyone know of a free or very inexpensive (less than $1000) source for San Salvador street data around the 1:10,000 to 1:25,000 scale? Any format would be fine I think.. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Updating Object Styles
Mappers: Is there a way to update an object's style programmatically without recreating the object? A snippet of sample code from the MapBasic Help file says: 'set a new "current symbol style" sSymbolAttr = "(35,65280,22)" sCmd = "Set Style Symbol MakeSymbol" + sSymbolAttr Run Command sCmd ' use an Update statement to create a new Point for ' every row in the Selection table. Each new Point ' will use the new "current symbol style" Update "Selection" Set obj = CreatePoint(CentroidX(obj),CentroidY(obj)) However, I need to do this for polygons! When working in MapInfo, I can go to "Options | Region Style" and modify editable, selected objects in the current window.. but that doesn't seem to work from within MapBasic (?) I understand maybe I need to loop through each polygon and modify them using Alter Object? Thanks in advance for any insight! Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Tab - Atlas .BNA
Mappers, A client needs to get a tab file into ScanUS and tells me any of the following will work: User Location .LOC User Polylines .PLN User Polygons .PGN User Buffer .BUF ScanUS .GFX Atlas .BNA The User Polygons and the like are text files and I could awk or perl the mif/mid into "User Polygons .PGN" but should examine easier options first, my perl skills are fair at best. But, what is Atlas .BNA? Would that be easier? The A*G Link works with Atlas .AGF and .DBF and seems to translate from those to MapInfo, not the other direction... so I don't think A*G Link is the answer... Any and all insights appreciated, Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI ODBC Error
Hi Mappers: Does anyone else get this error with ODBC? "ODBC Error: ODBC RC=-1, ODBC SQLState=S1000, DBMS RC=0, DBMS Msg=[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Connection is busy with results from another hstmt." It seems to happen whenever I first open up a table, and also when I try to do a refresh. I am using SQL Server 6.5 and MapInfo 5.5. Thanks a bunch! Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Portugal Street Data
I received a couple of responses about Portugal street data: 1) from Luis Suárez-Carreño "You should get in touch with GEOGRAF, Sistemas de InformaÇao Geográfica, Lda. They are MapInfo distributors for Portugal and Spain. They have a lot of Portuguese data. Its Director is Mr. Raúl Mota, and this is his e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 351 1 848 1314." I talked to them and they have two sets of data for Lisbon and Porto -- one from TeleAtlas and a less expensive one with fewer attributes but supposedly of equal quality... both sets are at 1:10,000 and 2) from Norm Genier [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are street maps of a 1:300,000 scale available for MapInfo. They are called Cartique Mapping. Portugal is bundled with Spain, Andorra and Gilbraltar and the whole region is priced at $ 4,375. I will enquire if Portugal can be separated." Thanks folks! MapInfo-L is the best! Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Portugal Street Data
Mappers, I'd like to get detailed street for Portugal (Lisbon and Porto) for some studies we're contemplating this year... I remember looking into this a couple years ago and all I could come up with was a highway network from AND mapping in the Netherlands at some- thing like 1:250,000. Does anyone have better sources? If you e-mail to me I will summarize and re-post. Thanks! Eric Frost GIS Department Manager HR and Associates, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI List of five Internet resources for finding / posting jobs
Here's a list of five Internet resources for finding / posting jobs for your edification. Thanks to all who responded. GIS Job Clearinghouse Thanks to Dennis Waardenburg and Bill Hicks http://www.gjc.org An UK based list Thanks to Jonathon Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GISJobs.com Thanks to Robert Murdoch and Heidi Kalin http://www.gisjobs.com is very cool. GeoWeb Services Thanks to Phil and Uhl Sumit Sen http://www.ggrweb.com GeoCommunity website Thanks to Glenn Letham http://news.geocomm.com/classifieds/ Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Asuncion
We purchased some street (and rivers, boundaries) data for Asuncion , Paraguay. It is a product from DGEEC called: "Asuncion Capitol Cartografia Digital Censal 1998" and it came in PC ARC/INFO format. We have ARC/INFO 7.0.4 (but of course we mostly use MapInfo) so I converted it to AI 7 coverages using a tool from esri.com, then kicked it to AI export files and used MI's arclink_map sun utility to create tab's. The data is in KM's and is UTM (datum WGS) but when it comes into MI it is non-earth and it thinks the KM's are meters. I tried adding this line to the MapInfoW.prj but it's not working out... "UTM Zone 21, Northern Hemisphere (WGS 84)\p32621", 8, 104, 7, -57, 0, 0.9996, 50, 0 "UTM Zone 21, Southern Hemisphere (WGS 84)\p32721", 8, 104, 7, -57, 0, 0.9996, 50, 1000 "UTM Zone 21, Southern Hemisphere (WGS 84)in KM for Asuncion\p32721", 8, 104, 1, -57, 0, 0.9996, 500, 1 notice I changed the 7 to a 1 for KM and took three zeros off each farthing. I assume I should open the Asuncion files and do a save copy as specifying this projection. When I then go to open it using the world country file off the MI CD as a backdrop and do View Entire Layer asuncion tab NOTHING appears, and as I zoom out I'm somewhere just off the west african coast but far from South America. Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Thanks is advance! Eric Frost -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:17:35 -0600
Mappers, I am starting a search for detailed street data (and possibility demographic data) for a "market plan" in Singapore. Do any of you know of sources for Singapore data? Thanks so much! Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc. 630-789-0444 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
