MI-L X Y Coordinates for Road intersections?
Hi, I have a number of road intersections (like thousands) that I want to collect the XY coordinates for and save them as attributes. What is a good way to do this? thanks, Bob ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
MI-L MI Disabling the Close (X) button on the map window?
Hi, I have a complex MapBasic program that I inherited. It runs fine except that if you click the (X) close button on the Map Window, the program responds either with "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown" (invalid page fault) or "System Error - Internal Error 31203." My questions are: Does anyone know what might be causing this error? (probably not closing things off properly) and What happens in the MapBasic program when you click the (X) Close button on the Map Window? If I can't find the problem, is there a way of disabling the (X) close button in the MapBasic program? Thanks, Bob Regier Township of Langley ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
MI-L MI Maintenance Management using MapInfo and Palmtop computing devices.
Hi, I am writing a program to assist in maintaining Fire Hydrants for our Municipality. The Concept: The concept is that the Public Works foreman would go out with his handheld computing devise (loaded with MapInfo) call up the map with the fire hydrants and click on the one to be maintained. All of the installation and maintenance records to date would pop up on the hand held and he would then be able to record the maintenance work being done on that hydrant. That information would then be used to update the MS Access (master) database of fire hydrant information. The Assumptions: The Public Works people want to use a Compaq palm top running Windows CE with a wireless modem to a Citrix server running both MapInfo and MS Access. The palmtop would run a thin Citrix client and all the processing would happen on the Citrix server. When the person out in the field clicked on the hydrant, a MS Access form would pop up for that hydrant with check boxes that could be clicked to indicate the work being performed. The Futures: If this first phase was a success we would add: Computer generated maintenance schedules; Computer generated optimal routing; etc. The Questions: Will this work? If so, how? How can MapInfo call MS Access? Is there a better/easier way to do the same thing? Could this be done in a browser over the internet instead of Windows CE? Would it be better to do an upload in the morning and a download in the evening instead of being connected directly? Is anyone doing this now? Thanks for your help, Bob Regier GIS Manager Township of Langley, BC Canada ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
MI Geocoding Lines
Hi, There are a large number of construction projects in our 5-Year capital plan which are itemized and geocoded in a spreadsheet. I need to build a map of these projects from the spread sheet. The projects that relate to points with one X Y coordinate (e.g. new traffic lights, etc.) are easy to generate using Table Create Points. It seems to be more difficult to build projects that relate to lines with two sets of X, Y coordinates (e.g. new roads or water lines, etc.) Is there a way to generate lines from a beginning and end point geocoded in a spread sheet? Any suggestions? Thanks, Bob Regier Township of Langley -- 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 Downloading Oracle info to MapInfo
Hi, I need to download attribute data from an Oracle database to a MapInfo .tab file on a monthly basis. What is the best way to do this? thanks, Bob -- 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 Tracking down missing polygons
Hi, The Scenario: I am converting AutoCAD dgn files to MapInfo layers. There are two files from AutoCAD, one that has the polygon (30,000 property parcels) and another file that has a text parcel identification for each parcel. The result I want is a MapInfo layer (30,000 parcels) with the identification as an attribute. The process I am using is the Table>Update Column to add the the text parcel identification as an an attribute to the text parcel layer. Then I do a geographic join where the text object is entirely within the parcel object. This takes care of most of the parcels, but then I need to reconcile those parcels whose identification is not entirely within the parcel. The Problem: I need a better way to track down the parcels whose text identification is not entirely within the polygon boundary. Currently I am overlaying the joined parcels (in one colour) on the layer that has all the parcels (in a contrasting colour) and when I see a different coloured parcel I know there is a parcel that needs fixing. This is a slow and labourious process, especially on some of the small parcels. I need a better way of tracking down these parcels and identifiers that need attention. Do you have any suggestions? If there were a way of doing some kind of a 'not entirely within' query that might help, but I don't think that is possible. The Solution: (your turn) Thanks, Bob Regier -- 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 Adding summary information to .tab files.
Hi, I would like to add a documentation feature to my .tab files that would allow users who are interested to see: Who created a file; When it was created (and modified); etc. Kind of like the summary properties in a Word document. What is the best way to do this in MapInfo? thanks, Bob Regier -- 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 Live ODBC connection?
Hi, We currently have a property file which has a number of attributes such as property number, owners name, current taxes, etc. Those attributes are part of the .tab property file and are displayed by activating the i (info) tool and clicking on the desired property. Every two weeks we download these attributes from Oracle tables into MapInfo. I would like to be able to access the property attributes directly from the Oracle files by just clicking the i (info) tool on the desired property. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks, Bob Regier -- 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 MapBook Application
Hi, I'm writing a Mapbook application in MapBasic that prints out the roads in the Township on 8.5 X 11 mapsheets. Part of the information I want to print on the four sides of each page is the map # of the adjoining page, as well as the current date. There must be a way to put that information into a variable and then printing out the variable, but I haven't found it yet. I am trying to use the Create Text Statement. What is the best way to approach this? thanks, Bob Regier -- 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 Printing Fire Department Road Atlas
Hi, I am trying to set up an application in MapBasic to print a road atlas for the fire department. The atlas would show all the roads in the Township and the locations of Fire hydrants (on about 30 8.5 X 11 map sheets). This would help the fire fighters to travel to the scene by the best possible route and connect quickly to the nearest hydrant. What is the best way to proceed? I looked at the "cookie cutter" program on the MapInfo web site as a place to start from, but I need the map pages to overlap and all roads need to print, even if their centroids aren't in the selected region. This doesn't happen with that program. Anyway my questions are: Is there a program on the MapInfo web site that does something like what I want? Is there a function in MapBasic that will allow me to specify the coordinates of the map sheet area to print? How do I orient the text vertically on the sides of the map to say "this map continued on map sheet 12"? Can you help? Thanks, Bob Regier -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
