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 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
