MI Polar Projection of both Hemispheres
I have a WWII vintage map, prepared for the US Army based in Australia that was used to determine bearings for directional HF radio antennae from Brisbane Australia (where the map is centred) to any other point in the world. It is hand drawn, and id like to digitise it into Mapinfo in part to help preserve it, and to be able to plot it at various scales etc. Does anyone know how to cater for projections like this? I guess it is some form of polar projection, but I have no experience with anything like this. Thanks in advance Andrew Waltho e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Announcement - AIG Journal
The Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) is pleased to announce that publication of papers in the Institute's on-line technical journal (AIG Journal) has commenced. The first papers published were originally presented at the Third Computers in Mining, Exploration and the Environment conference (CIMEE3) held in Brisbane Australia, October 1999 and focus on GIS applications in geosciences. The journal web site is www.aig.asn.au/aigjournal Access to the site is free and unrestricted for both AIG members and visitors. Regards, Andrew Waltho Chairman, Queensland Branch Australian Institute of Geoscientists -- 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 Philippines TM Grid
I am trying to locate details of a Transverse Mercator grid used widely in the Philippines (Philippines Transverse Mercator grid). The grid eastings are offset from a UTM Zone 51 grid based on WGS84 by about 210 000m while the northings are similar (but no identical). Any information, or even parameters for the mapinfo.prj file would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance Andrew Waltho Brisbane, Australia e-mail: [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 Polyline Editing Tool
Is anyone aware of a Mapbasic utility for breaking a polyline between nodes into two separate lines? Polybrk.mbx on the Mapinfo utilities site breaks a polyline into segments at nodes, which can lead to the creation of hundreds of segments with complex polylines (although it is very useful!) Thanks in advance, Andrew Waltho Brisbane, Australia e-mail: [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 Spatialplus Web Site
Does anyone know what has happened to Spatialplus? They used to have a good web site with some very useful tools that are no longer available. Andrew Waltho Brisbane, Australia e-mail: [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 RE: Image VS GRID?
I agree with Charles. The only difference between an image and a grid in my view is that an image is usually constructed of a finer mesh of points (pixels), and then maybe not in the case of some LANDSAT imagery where the ground resolution is about 30m, and there are multiple instead of single z values for each point in the image (as opposed to a single z value in a grid). Effectively, grids are the representations of a single "channel" or "band" of data forming an image. Andrew Waltho Brisbane, Australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Huyck Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 1999 3:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI: Image VS GRID? What is the difference between an image and a Grid? One is derived and one is imported? Aren't they both just 2D (or more) arrays of numbers? Color values reference the object. You can analyze these numbers to extract and classify the object, like on the X-files last night when the FBI agent used "SKAG" to classify a surveillance video still and it turned out to be the exact colors of the some guy's letter jacket. I guess ESRI is doing away with this weird GRID vs image thing. I never understood the difference anyway. -- 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 Australian Lat Long data
Kaith, I'm pretty sure that the AusLIG gazeteer is accesible through their web site www.auslig.gov.au The on-line gazeteer is a really nice site (place names button from the AusLIG home page), but you can only search for one name at a time. It gives you the geographic coordinates and a map of there the place is. Regards, Andrew Waltho -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laith Wark Sent: 18 October 1999 14:21 To: MapInfo List Serve (E-mail) Subject: MI Australian Lat Long data Friends, Does anyone out there know of a good web site to search for the Lat. Long. coordinates of given physical features in Austrailia? Thanks abazvzabazvzabazvzaba Laith Wark EDAW (Aust) P/L Design, Planning and Environments Worldwide Level 4 Rowes Building 235 Edward Street Brisbane 4000 Australia Ph: INT +61 (0)7 3229 6422 Fx: INT +61 (0)7 3229 6422 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] abazvzabazvzabazvzaba -- 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: Title Blocks on Final Maps
This is probably a really basic question... I have a complex title block, incorporating things like the subject of the map, drawing number, date etc. that I want to use as a standard inclusion in f9inal plots. Most of my plots are A3 or A1. The title block differs in size between sheet sizes, but is the same for all plots of a particular size. My approach was going to be "hardwire" the title blocks into a workspace that could then be opened, the required drawing dropped into place and details filled in the title block for the drawing. I'd be interested to hear how others handle this. Thanks Andrew Waltho Brisbane Australia winmail.dat
MI Computers in Mining, Exploration and the Environment (CIMEE3)
COMPUTERS IN MINING, EXPLORATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT (CIMEE3) Brisbane Australia 15 October 1999. Organised by the Australian Institute of Geoscientists The theme of the third seminar in this popular series will be "Data Management and Integration from the field to the corporate database" with papers covering topics from data collection in the field, historical data capture, data sources and the Internet, spatial data sets, centralisation of data - pros and cons, and corporate strategies. Visit www.aig.asn.au/cimee3.htm for details on the seminar program and registration Regards, Andrew Waltho [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 subscribe Mapinfo-l
Andrew Waltho Consulting Geoscientist Resource evaluation, project development, information management and GIS services Brisbane Australia Tel:07 5497 8146 Fax:07 5497 8145 Mobile: 0412 426 764 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 saving workspaces
Natalie, What I do is manually edit the paths in the workspace file to make them relative rather than absolute (ie .\data rather than c:\data). This means that the files can be either run directly from the CD, or placed in any other part of the directory structure on another machine, under a directory from which you attempt to open the workspace. To assist with this I normally use the following type of directory structure for different mapping projects: Project top directory e.g. d:\project Mapping files d:\project\mapping Client data d:\project\client_data Topo models d:\project\topo Workspaces d:\project\workspaces ...and so on. Using this approach all of the paths in Workspace files can become ..\mapping or ..\client_data etc, which enables them to be transported elsewhere without any problems. This approach may not suite everyone but I've found it a good way of organising data for one, and it makes a map very portable. I edit the workspace with Ultraedit32 (I like Ultraedit because you don't have to actually open the file to perform search and replace operations, and you can run the same operation on multiple files). You need to re-edit workspaces if you save them from Mapinfo because all of the relative paths will be replaced by absolute ones again. You also need to ensure that no table is set to editable when you write the data to CD, just by making sure no edit boxes are ticked in the layer control dialogue for any open map windows. You can test the edited workspace simply by closing all files and re-opening it. If you've made a mistake, don't despair - just re-edit the paths or resort to the backup the editor creates - you haven't lost anything. Data can then be written to CD or moved to another directory across a network with no problems. There are a couple of workspace manager programs about (like workspace control from 4th Beach Software in Melbourne, Australia) that may make this process even simpler, but I don't find the task onerous using the method above. Hope this helps Andrew Waltho Mining Resource Technology Brisbane Australia -- 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 Directory of Australian Geoscientists
A Directory of Australian Geoscientists has been established to provide a reference point for professional geoscientists (in the broadest sense) currently working, trained or in some other way connected with Australia. The Directory is maintained by the Australian Institute if Geoscientists but is open to all. The principal aims of the Directory are to provide a contact point for Australian geoscientists, and to collate detailed information on the many fields in which geoscientists are employed, employment trends and education and training. The latter information will be used to provide "hard" statistical data for submissions to government and other bodies to enhance the professional standing and employment opportunities for geoscientists in Australia. Complete details are available from the Directory web site www.aig.asn.au/directory Thanks, Andrew Waltho [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]
