MI vanishing north symbols- solved
Thanks to Stan Johnston and others for helping solve this problem- though how it has been solved is still a mystery Our office version of MapInfo 5.5 has a drop box with various NORTH symbols in the symbols preferences. I made several maps using one that said NORTH with an elongated wedge above it pointing upward/north. When I saved the finished products as windows metafiles the maps were fine, except that the north symbols displayed on my home computer as hatch marks, or hash marks as most people insist on calling them. It appears a windows metafile is more a file than a picture in some ways, and wants to find fonts to display some symbols properly. So I copied the MapInfo fonts into my home windows font file- and the metafiles now display the north symbol. The only bit I don't understand is that when out of curiosity I opened the MapInfo font files I transferred home, NONE of them appeared to contain that nifty NORTH symbol with the wedge above it. Still, mustn't grumble :-) Bob Hudson Archaeology Department, University of Sydney. --- Home pages: Archaeology at Bagan, Myanmar Buddhist Art and Archaeology: http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/~hudson/bobhpage -- 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 Vanishing north symbols
Our version of MapInfo 5.5 has a drop box with various NORTH symbols in the symbols preferences. I made several maps using one that said NORTH with an elongated wedge above it pointing upward/north. When I saved the finished products via Save Window as windows metafiles the maps were fine, except that the north symbols saved as hatch marks, or hash marks as most people insist on calling them. Can anyone suggest why this would happen? Bob Hudson Archaeology Department, University of Sydney. --- Home pages: Archaeology at Bagan, Myanmar Buddhist Art and Archaeology: http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/~hudson/bobhpage -- 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 MapInfo nearest neighbour analysis-sort of
Can anyone advise a hugely non-math-skilled MapInfo user on a formula to solve a problem? I have a group of settlements in a valley, of different sizes. The mountains surrounding the valley are mapped in their own layer. I want to be able to show the territory theoretically owned or dominated by each settlement, based on its area- big settlements own big territory- excluding the mountains. I tried a Voronoi diagram, using Vertical Mapper, but could only get a funny little diagram with equal size areas for each settlement. Buffering gave relative sizes in multiples of units nominated by MapInfo, miles, kilometres, chains etc, but only as a circle radiating from the location point of the settlement. My end result should be a pattern of ellipses radiating out from each settlement, abutting the boundary of each neighbouring settlement, but skirting the mountains. Any thoughts? Bob Hudson Archaeology Department, University of Sydney. --- Home pages: Archaeology at Bagan, Myanmar Buddhist Art and Archaeology: http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/~hudson/bobhpage -- 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: World Places
How about "a directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town"- comprehensive enough for ya? Credit goes to Carl Rosenberg, who own the site. http://www.calle.com/world/index.html BH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 19 August 1999 11:08 Subject: MI: World Places Hello! Can somone point me in the right direction? I'm looking for a Web site that can provide the Lat/long for world cities. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Laura Piazza RSLCOM Canada 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] -- 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 UTM wishes to meet Non-Earth, view serious relationship.
I hope nobody thinks this is an attempt to get someone else to do my homework for me, but :-) I have a big MapInfo map of an archaeological site in upper Myanmar/Burma, based originally on existing metric non-earth survey point data which came in eastings and northings. I have a point on this grid whose Lat and Long are known. This map is augmented with material from old 1940s maps (the only ones available) and aerial photos. I now want to survey areas on the edge of my site, with a hand-held GPS. I figure that as I am using the database for archaeological analysis and not trying for surveyor-type accuracy, my new locations will be fine even if they're a couple of hundred metres off, so hand-held GPS is ok. But here's the problem. How do I reconcile the metric UTM readings from my GPS with the metric readings from my map grid? My first thought was to take UTM readings from known points, which are also on the non-earth map made from the original survey, and do the maths (a subject I usually rely on MapInfo and Excel to do for me!) If my non-earth point at E 5,000m /N 10,000m is, say, UTM E 657747 / N 2344792 on the GPS, any other UTM point east or north of that datum can be converted to my non-earth coordinates by subtracting the number I first thought of, as it were. 1. Does that make sense? 2. Is there a better way? A formula? Bob H -- 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 rectangular grid maker
http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/resources/index.html The University of Sydney Archaeology Dept has a DOS program (some of you older folk may remember DOS!) called GRIDMAKE which will do the job. Go to the above URL, then scroll down and select the link "software toolkits and packages" Description from page: GridMake create a rectangular grid (of lines or polygons) for a specified area at a specified spacing. Polygons have blank tabular data fields attached for elevation, slope, aspect and user-defined variables, for update with CELLVECT (also available). Grid can be cartesian, projected or lat/long. Output is in MapInfo MIF/MID format. Bob H -Original Message- From: mohammed elouarti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, 27 July 1999 22:05 Subject: MI Grid made in rectangular coordinates Hi, I would like a tool for making grid in rectangular (X,Y) coordinates. Can you help me? Thanks. El ouarti Mohammed Amine Landsurvey enginneer (private) Morocco-Rabat Tél: (212) (7) 73 40 56 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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 North arrow
There is quite a nice little wingding, a black circle encasing with a white arrow pointing up. BH -Original Message- From: Claude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, 17 July 1999 8:29 Subject: MI North arrow Hi listers, How can i put a north arrow on a map whitout drawing it. Is there a mbx or whatever that do that. Thanks Claude Beaumont geologist -- 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 Aerial Photography - Storage
The storage problem may be easier- how about burning them onto a CD-Rom? BH -Original Message- From: Landis, Bill @ Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo Mail List 1 (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 16 July 1999 1:50 Subject: RE: MI Aerial Photography - Printing and Storage Remote sensing details aside, sounds like you are running into the dreaded MI raster resampling feature. MI can't print 24 bit color at 24 bit to postscript printers. It resamples the raster to 8 bit to print. That isn't the problem. The problem is that it uses the Windows color pallet for the resample, thus your images look like they are at a low resolution, when in reality they do not have enough colors to properly represent the image. Scan your images at 1200 dpi, but if you are going to print them in MI then you will have to resample them to 8 bit yourself with Photo Editor. Just make sure that when you resample them you have PE create an optimized pallet. The images will degrade slightly, but most will not be able to distinguish the difference. You are going to run into the same problem with Mr. Sid files. That is why I do not believe that Mr. Sid is a good solution for MI. Besides ER Mapper will give you a better compression tool for free and ER Mapper's format has plug-ins for MI, AV, AutoCAD, PhotoShop and other apps. But even with ER Mapper you will run into a printing problem. There is a company, Engineering Mapping Solutions that has a good solution. Their product EMSView is a stand alone viewer that will display your compressed images as a single image and export them out to all major GIS apps in 24, 16 and 8 bit TIFFs (world and tab files included). They have even developed a mbx that will allow you to import an image from within MI. Their number is (602) 870-7811. Hope this helps, Bill Landis... Information Management Director, Global Mapping Services CB Richard Ellis P 602 735 5233 F 602 735 5655 "If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished." - unknown -Original Message- From: Steven Heapy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:15 PM To: 'MapInfo-L' Subject: MI Aerial Photography - Printing and Storage Our Council has just had some aerial photography flown at 1:5000 and are investigating at what DPI we should have this scanned at ie 600 or 1200 DPI We are currently testing both, obviously the 1200 requires more storage and cost but gives an improved image on the screen and prints better. However both images that are printed through MapInfo 5.5 in the layout seem to loose a fair amount of quality compared to being printed in say Photo Editor. Also has anyone used and printed images compressed with Mr Sid over a NT network. All comments, sugestions and ideas regarding DPI (resolution), storage and printing would be appreciate Regards Steve -- 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]
