MI: Simultaneous file sharing, multiple users
Good day List- I have had a request to look into something that may not be MapInfo specific but I thought the collective knowledge base here may have an idea or two. I'm looking at a way to have two (or more) users simultaneously look at a network file and mark edits on it in real time, kind of like a video conference or virtual/net meeting. Essentially it would be like everyone gathered around one computer and suggesting ideas while one person executed them with MapInfo, but instead they want to sit at their own terminals and see the same thing. This is especially useful for others on the company network who are not in the same regional office. Would a solution have to be application specific? If all the participants had the same software on their machines (be it MapInfo, ERmapper etc), would there be a way to show a window of what the others were doing on everyone's screen? Just putting out the feelers, any suggestions would be welcome- Jason _____ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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 .wmf export issue
Alberto- I get the same thing all the time - quite annoying I'd say. I'm not sure what it is, but I suspect that there is a memory problem whereby it captures everything up to a certain point and then drops the fill. One workaround that sometimes works for me is to set up the layout as you want it (say on a landscape 8.5x11 paper) then change the paper size to something bigger like a landscape D size so that there is extra paper showing on the side that is not being captured entirely (right side?). Now export the window as a wmf. You'll have extra to crop off in Word or PowerPoint, but it may retain the fills for you. Good luck with that- Jason ___ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI .wmf export issue > > Listers, > > I'm sure the nightmare that is text handling in MI layouts has been > discussed to > death here. I'm trying to export a layout to .wmf using File/Save Window > As. > In Powerpoint, I insert the the .wmf file as a picture. Everything works > perfectly except for a "column" of the image that is missing the shading > from a > base map polygon layer. > The gap in shading does not correspond to a table boundary, so I'm not > sure what > the problem is. Saving the layout to .tif or .jpg gets rid of the problem, > but > print quality is not high enough. > > TIA, > > Alberto Reyes > GIS/Remote Sensing Technician > Kluane National Park > [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 AV in the same office?
Robert- I don't know how common it is, but we also use MI and AV in the same office. We also use AutoCAD 2000, CorelDraw and Photo-Paint, as well as everything from the Microshaft Office package. We have AV because of preferences from our Head Office, but primarily (>95% of the time) use MapInfo for mapping. Our drafting dept. creates maps for geological research and mineral (diamond) exploration, and we also make presentation material, posters, and slide shows hence the other drawing packages. Anything graphic, we handle. With the use of the Universal Translator, we can export MapInfo files to ArcView SHP's in order to share with other users, so we don't need to draft or buy data twice. Same with DWG/DXF files which we still get from consultants, as well as all the original digitizing and mapping work we did before MapInfo (also the need for AutoCAD). Then you add on Access to query data from the database and Excel to give that data to others and to make graphs. All in all, I'm sure it's not too unusual to have more than one piece of software to get your job done. In your case, you probably don't need to upgrade everytime a new AV comes out, as most of the functions you use it for come with your original version. Regards, Jason p.s. If you ever get the time, take a scan through some Mapbasic (MB) programs - it's not to hard to pick up the basics of the language. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Glazier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:33 AM > To: Donna Glover; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI AND AV in the same office? > > > > Donna, > > May I ask why you find it necessary to use both AV and MI in your office? > The > reason I ask is that I've been using MI Pro 5.0 for about 9 months but > found > that I was being asked to run analyses that I wasn't capable of doing with > out > of the box MI. These analyses involve patient accessibility to our > provider > network i.e. how many providers are within how many miles of particular > patients. I looked for a cost effective extension for MI but couldn't find > any > that met my needs and I have no experience programming (although I am > trying to > pick it up). I was able however to get a good deal on an extension to AV > that > did exactly what I needed (Patient Access). > > To make a long story short I am using MI Pro for 90% of my mapping and AV > for > the other 10%. Note that we have 5 licenses for MI but I do 99% of the GIS > work. > But, I've begun to wonder whether it makes sense to have both packages. It > seems > like having Word and Wordperfect on the same machine. > > We will begin to assemble our wish lists for the 2001 budget soon and I've > been > asked to outline our GIS needs. So, I'm struggling with: a) Keeping both > packages on my machine and MI on everyone else's. b) Converting everyone > to AV. > or, c) Staying with MI and learning to program for my particular needs > (kind of > a painful approach after selling the idea of purchasing AV). Mixing the > two > systems means purchasing data for both systems (primarily streets for > geocoding > or MapMarker updates with occassional ZIP boundary updates). > > To further cloud the process I find particularly favorible attributes in > each > package. And in fact lean towards continuing to use each as the particular > job > warrants. > > I assumed until just recently that a person used one or the other but not > necessarily both. Would you mind sharing your thoughts? > > I posed a similar question to Tony D. as he has experience with both > packages > and recieved a great reply . I'm not so interested in MI vs. AV now but in > whether using both in the same department is in fact not so uncommon. > > I apologize for the long winded question and will submit it to the list to > avoid > asking it again. > > Rob Glazier, Market Analyst > Aurora Health Care > Milwaukee, WI > > > > > > -- > 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 Metadata and Directory Structure
Hi All- We are about to start revising our rather outdated and convoluted MapInfo data directory structure so that new users can find the tables they need. We are interested in assigning and keeping the metadata for each table and be able to query on it if possible. (ie select All point tables for Ontario from 1995 and before). As it stands right now, most of that information is carried in my or my collegues head as to where it's stored, it's origin, and when it was created/modified. Does anyone have any experience they can share with Metadata managers and perhaps the way they set up their directory structure to help control duplicate and outdated (archival I guess you'd call it) tables? Many Thanks, will sum Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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 Digital export of layout
Sean- You may want to export the Layout as a WMF which is a vector format, then paste it into a new 600dpi document in PhotoPaint or PhotoShop, whatever image editing program you have around. That may take care of the resolution problem. If you really don't have any kind of Paint program, you could insert the wmf into PowerPoint and export the slide as a TIF. Or you could print the map and have it scanned it back in at whatever resolution you need. HTH, Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Sean Ramsay [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:28 PM > To: MAPINFO-L > Subject: MI Digital export of layout > > Help! > > This surely is a simple question but it's been wracking my head for a > few days now. What I need to do is export a high resolution image in tiff > or eps format to a mac user. I have exported in both but the problem is > the image resolution is the screen resolution (not good!) and I can't find > a driver that will let me export it in a resolution past 300dpi. Anybody > have any suggestions? > > Cheers from Canada, > Sean > > > Sean Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GIS Programmer Analyst > > CDG Wood Distributors Ltd. > 103-343 Railway St. > Vancouver BC V6A 1A4 > Ph. (604) 669-WOOD Fax. (604) 622-5473 > > -- 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 End of Line - coordinats ?
Alex Update two new columns in your Line table with value ObjectGeography(obj,3) or ObjectGeography(obj,4) for endpoint X and endpoint Y respectively. Make sure to set the projection of the map window to your desired type before running the Update Column dialog. Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Alex Teleshev [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 6:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI End of Line - coordinats ? > > Hello MI-people, > Is there any symple way in MI to extract end of line coordinats to > browser ? > > > Best regards, > Alex mailto:[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]
MI: Cropped Frame dialog - 5.5 bug or install error?
Good day Listers- I have a user in the office trying to install 5.5 on his machine which used to have 5.0 on it. He's run across an odd problem that I can't replicate. The Frame dialog (dbl-click on a frame in the layout) is now missing the last line which contains the "Fill Frame with Contents" checkbox and the "Scale on Paper" which is obviously not very handy for him. He's running it off a laptop computer, could that be an issue? Looking for anyone with a similar experience or a work-around. Jason __ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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 Mapinfo v5.5 Patch (printing bug)
More creepy crawlies? I've found that when I set an E-size page to landscape on a HP1050C, the new layout window comes up portrait, and you have to switch the Page Setup again to get it to stick. I think it's trying to go to your Windows Default printer. Also, the little Preview button you click to change the style of a region in a dialog box doesn't update with the new style when you change it. It was kind of confusing at first, I'd keep going back in to check if I'd actually changed the style. > -Original Message- > From: Doyle, Peter W [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 12:51 AM > To: 'Mapinfo-L' > Subject: MI Mapinfo v5.5 Patch (printing bug) > > Greetings all, > > Has anybody come across the following problem after installing the MapInfo > v5.5 patch (Patch55026.exe) > > I am running MI v5.5 under NT4, plotting to a HP650c plotter. > > I set page setup to print landscape. When opening a layout window it > always > comes up portrait. This has not been a problem till I installed the above > patch. > (the same thing has happened on two independent machines, both running) > > Apon reinstalling MI v5.5 without the patch, everything is back to normal. > > Maybe this is why MapInfo is not promoting the patch? > > Comments anybody? > > > Regards > > Peter Doyle > TELSTRA > OnAir Networks Queensland > (G)eographical (I)nformation (S)ystems & Mapping > ' +61 7 34064304 > 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] -- 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 - Expressions in "Select"
David- Try using left$(PLUGS,1)="G" where the 1 is the number of characters on the left side of the string. If you needed all the G1xx plugs for example, you'd enter left$(PLUGS,2)="G1". Same for the right side (right$(column,#chars)="xxx") Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: David Reid [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 1:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI - Expressions in "Select" > > Please help me save what's left of my already receding hair line and > prevent me from pulling the rest of my hair out. > > "Select" expressions. I have been through the help files til I'm > cross-eyed trying to create a simple select expression to select only > the cells of a record that contain a single first character followed > by any number of characters. > > Example: PLUGS = "G??" to select all the PLUGS rated at "Gxx" > > __ > David Reid > [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 Renaming Table Path Names Within a Workspace file
Ron- I'd like to recommend a great free tool I downloaded from SpatialPlus.com. It's called SearchPlus and will go throught a whole directory of .wor files and replace a search string with a new one like if everything was coded to D:\Data and you moved the map tables to e:\newdata, it could replace that string. Check it out: http://www.spatialplus.com Jason > -Original Message- > From: Ron Larock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 5:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI Renaming Table Path Names Within a Workspace file > > Can you help? > > We want to move several GBytes of Infomap data & related files from two > existing servers to a new one. Unfortunately there are 992 Workspace (ie. > "*.wor") files that have hard coded path names for each table file. It > would take more than a month to re-code these path names manually using a > text editor. Has anyone developed a script based program that would read > every Workspace file, open it, change the existing file path names to a > new patch name string and then write back the updated Workspace file. The > script program would need to do this recursively throughout the entire > directory structure. > > Many thanks, > > Ron Larock > Director Technical Support > Information Services > Cambridge Shopping Centres Limited > > -- > 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 Object Creation - Snapping nodes and creating objects
TGIF Listers: I've had a question from another list member (Christy Noonan) regarding the creation of new regions from existing polylines. Why is it that moving a node over another node in the same pline (with Snap On) to, say, correct a hole, doesn't really connect the nodes, it just lies them on top of one another. I've always figured it was a weird 'feature' and drew a short line snapped to each side, Combined it with the pline and Created Regions on that. Is this the only way or is there something within MI I'm missing? TIA, will sum (if necessary) Jason ______ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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 AD: HP 650C ink
Good day mappers- We have disposed of (traded in I should say) our HP650C for a new HP755. I don't seem to like it as much, but that's life. Anyways, we have a bunch of ink cartridges left, if anyone is interested in them for a discount. Jason [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 scripts
One other option is to Export your table as a MID/MIF file, then look at the MIF part in a text editor to see the node coordinates for the regions/polygons in your table. Jason > -Original Message- > From: Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 6:17 AM > To: Megan Kilby; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: MI scripts > > Hello Megan, > > > I was wondering whether anyone has written a script with enables you to > > view the coordinates for rectangles and polygons drawn in mapinfo > > For rectangle objects, you can just double-click or select & F7 for the > Object Info dialog. This will tell you the coordinates of the corners. > > For "many-node" type objects such as polylines and polygons, this would > need > a MB program to be done well. It would also need to be quite smart since > it > would not be possible to fill a listbox with all the coordinates in large > object. Some form of "block view" when the node count reaches a certain > threshold would be necessary. A good utility would also need to handle > multi-polygon regions and multi-segment polylines. > > Regards, > Warren Vick > Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. > http://www.europa-tech.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]
MI: Island cutter
I've received a dataset, and joy of joys, it is already in polygons. However, some of the 'island' polys are not cut out. The Set target, select objects, Erase... method is getting tiresome, so I was wondering if anyone had already automated it before I go re-inventing the wheel in MapBasic. Ideally, I would pick a large poly and hit the button which would set it as the target, select all intersecting/contained regions and, use them to erase holes in it. TIA Jason __ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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 Label Expression
Many thanks to all who responded (it's funny how many responses I got before I even saw my original message). As I suspected, the way I was doing it was the preferred method. How about a wish-list item? Q: I want to label points in a table, but I don't want to label the ones that have a value of zero. Is there a way to specify a conditional expression for your labels? A: #1. Query the positive values and add the query to the layout; label that with N for a symbol style. #2. Make a character column, update it with the values from orig. column, then update the Zeros with blanks; label objects from that column. Thanks to (among others): Bob Wilson, Jason McMahan, Stephen Sloan Patrick Phillips, Steve Wallace, Yannick Leduc Jason _____ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON -- 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: Label Expression
Good day listers- I have what should be an easy question, but I can't seem to figure it out. All I want is to label points in a table, but I don't want to labels the ones that have a value of zero. (The values represent sample results and the Zeros already have their own symbol) An expression along the line of Label with [column] where [column]<>0 would be an accurate summary of the problem. Using label expression [column] <> 0 returns a True/False value though. Thanks in advance, Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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: World Data Bank II question
Hello listers- I was downloading and converting some shoreline data from the USGS Coastline Extractor (http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html) and noticed some errors for the coastlines in Northern Canada. It was derived from the World Data Bank II (scale 1:2M), which I understand was created by the CIA. I can't find an original source or contact to notify of these errors though. Does anyone out there know who is currently responsible for maintaing this data? TIA, Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 [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: Technology story part II - 4', 8.5"
Again, unrelated to most common List topics, but for collectors of technology stories, it's a classic Jason > The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is > 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. > Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them > in England, and US railroads were built by English expatriates. > Why did the English people build them like that? Because the > first rail lines were built by the same people who built the > pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. > Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the > tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building > wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Okay! > Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Well, if they > tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some of > the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the > old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads? The first > long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the > benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since. > And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for > fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. > Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome, they were all > alike. In the matter of wheel spacing. And thus, we have the answer to > the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 > feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an > Imperial Roman army war chariot. > Specs and Bureaucracies live forever. So, the next time you are > handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with > it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were > made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war > horses. > > Now the twist to the story There's an interesting extension of the > story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space > Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets > attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket > boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. > The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make > them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the > factory to the launch site. The railroad line to the factory runs > through a tunnel in the mountains. And the SRBs had to fit through that > tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the > railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. > So, a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most > advanced transportation system was determined by the width of a > horse's Ass! -- 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 WAPHGIS: how to kill the Caps Lock key
Just a totally unrelated fast fact- When Buzz Aldrin was getting back into the lunar landing module and removing his suit, he accidentally knocked off a switch on a control panel. When they tried to use the switch and found the toggle missing, he used that same pen to stick in the resulting hole and activate the control. Ironic with the hoopla about costs that it likely saved the lives of two men on the moon... Jason ___-- > Reminds me of one of my favourite stories about technology, > > When NASA wanted a pen to write in space, they spent a million dollars on > developing the pen that wrote upside down > > Whereas the Russians just used a pencil > > And in the American sequel, the product was later immortalised in pop > culture by Sienfeld - who made more money from the idea than NASA. > > > Robert Crossley > Trinity Software > 10 Trinity Street > Parramatta Park > CAIRNS 4870 > AUSTRALIA > > Phone: 61-7-40314877 > Fax: 61-7-40314810 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.trinitysoftware.com.au > > > > > -- > 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 Can I move a coverage?
James-- It is bad cartographic form to just move the coverage when it's probably a projection problem, but if you really want to you can 1. Export to a Mif 2. Open .mif in a text editor 3. Add this line under the coordsys part near the top: (check MI reference book under MapInfo Data Exchange Format) Transform 0,0,Xdist,Ydist 4. Import the MIF file (import to a new table name in case it messes up). That should shift your whole map layer by the values you specified, but be careful with the number you enter - they can be negetive to shift in opposite direction. It may take some trial and error to get the right value. Alternatively, you can make sure your projection has the correct False Easting and Northing before converting the shape file. Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Moss James [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 9:42 PM > To: Mapinfo List > Subject: MI Can I move a coverage? > > I have a coverage that I have converted from a Shape file using UT but it > does not quite line up with the other coverage's in my browser. The shift > seems to be uniform across the area, and is towards the south west by > about > 1km. > > Is there a way to bump the whole coverage up and across to make it > visually > line up, even if it is not exactly geographically correct? > > __ > James Moss > Scientist, GIS > > <<...>> > *Department of Natural Resources > Block B, 80 Meiers Rd., Indooroopilly Brisbane 4068 > *Phone : 073896 9630 Fax : 073896 9591 > *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] -- 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: Zoom-To function
Thanks you folks for all your help. The Run Menu Command is pretty much what was required. You learn something new (and essentially basic)every day. The user had two windows, a browser and a mapper. When he chose from the browser, he'd select Query>Find Selection each time to see on the mapper where he was. He wanted to move that command onto a floatable/dockable button and save some clicks. Many thanks to all who responded. Jason Here's the code I used for those interested (subst. in a new command from the menu.def file and put any menu function on a button!) Include "mapbasic.def" Include "menu.def" Include "icons.def" INCLUDE "AUTO_LIB.DEF" Declare Sub Main Declare Sub Action Sub Main Create ButtonPad "Utility" As PushButton HelpMsg "Choose this button to display Selected objects" Calling Action Icon MI_ICON_MISC_16 Title "Utilities" Width 3 Show End Sub Sub Action Run Menu Command M_QUERY_FIND_SELECTION End Sub ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 -- 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: MB Zoom To function...
Lister: Hopefully a simple one for a MB wiz... I have a user that's picking records from a browser then looking at them on his map. I want to add a simple button to the tool bar to represent the Query>Find Selection... menu item, but I can't think of the command line for that. Something like "Zoom To Selection"? Many Thanks in advance- Jason [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 MB (confirm int, not char)
Aditya-
This is snipped out of my scalebar program, it seems to work...
Part of your Dialog will have something like this:
Control EditText
Value "0"
Position 15,12
Width 10x
ID 14
Into
'.your other dialog controls
'.
'.
Control OKButton
Position 8x,15y
ID 9
calling Check_OK
just make sure you assign an ID number and call the sub Check_OK.
In your new sub Check_OK - note the last part(& declare it at the
beginning):
Sub Check_OK
If Val(ReadControlValue(14)) < 0 then 'note the 14 is the cotrol ID
Note "You MUST enter a POSITIVE Value before continuing."
Alter Control 14 Active
Dialog Preserve
ElseIf ReadControlValue(14) = str$(0) then
Note "You MUST enter a Value before continuing."
Alter Control 14 Active
Dialog Preserve
ElseIf Val(ReadControlValue(14)) = 0 then
Note "Please type a number, not text!"
Alter Control 14 Active
Dialog Preserve
End IF
End Sub
Hope that helps!
Jason
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> Dear List members,
>
> Is it possible in MB to recognize the difference between Integer and
> String ? Actually in a edittext box I want integer value to be entered.
> But if somebody write any character by mistake, I want to stop it.
>
> Any idea !!
>
> Thanks in advance
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MI RE: Overlay symbols
Drew- You can't put two thematics on the same layer, but if you were to Add that table again to your layer dialog, you could make a second thematic using it. Your Layer Control would look something like this: >Ind. Value with OrdinalCol Mytable >Ranges by NominalCol Mytable Basetable NOT LIKE... >Ind. Value with OrdinalCol >Ranges by NominalCol Mytable Basetable Good Luck, Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON > -Original Message- > From: Phillips, Andrew [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:03 AM > To: mi-l (E-mail) > Subject: MI: Overlay symbols > > I'm trying to show two different attributes of point data, one attribute > ordinal, the other nominal, by varying color and symbol type. Had this > great idea to do so by overlaying thematic maps. Apparently only one > thematic map can be visible at a time, however. Is there another method? > > Drew > > ** > Andrew Phillips, Ph.D.615 E. Peabody St. > Quaternary Geology Section Champaign, IL 61820 > Illinois State Geological Survey (217) 333-2513 (ph) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (217) 333-2830 (fax) > > > > -- > 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 Phantom Tables!
Ian- Your 'phantom' table is probably not "Deleteable" because it is read-only. Besides, that's a dangerous option to use as it permanently deletes the table off your HD. Is the table listed under the File>Close Table... option? If so you could close it then save workspace again. If you are still getting problems, it may be better to add an index to one of the fields (Modify Table Structure>Checkmark one of the Index boxes) so that the WOR opens without error messages, then try closing the table and saving again. Editing the workspace file itself can be tricky if the table is referenced in more than one location in the file and you just remove the first mention of it. Regards, Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited Toronto, ON > -Original Message- > From: Ian Perkins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 11:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI Phantom Tables! > > G'Day Folks, > > MI5.5... and I have a table which does not appear in the "Layers" menu, > however everytime I launch the workspace, it attaches the table (I know so > as I get an index error message). I checked Table Maintenance - the table > is > listed under the "Table Structure" option/menu, but not in the "Delete" > option/menu. Weird. I want to detach this table. Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ian > -- > 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: Friday Humour -- Wise Advice
I noticed a lack of Friday Humours the past few weeks, so here goes... Have a good long weekend Canadians. > Wise Advice From Kids > 1. Never trust a dog to watch your food. - Patrick, age 10 > 2. When your dad is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?" don't > answer him. - Michael, 14 > 3. Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Michael, 14 > 4. Stay away from prunes. - Randy, > 5. Never pee on an electric fence. - Robert, 13 > 6. Don't squat with your spurs on. - Noronha, 13 > 7. Don't pull dad's finger when he tells you to. - Emily, 10 > 8. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. - > Taylia, 11 > 9. Never allow your three-year old brother in the same room as > your school assignment. - Traci, 14 > 10. Don't sneeze in front of mom when you're eating crackers.- Mitchell, > 12 > 11. Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac. - Andrew, 9 > 12. Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time. - Kyoyo, 9 > 13. You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. - Armir, 9 > 14. Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. -Kellie, 11 > 15. If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse. -Naomi, 15 > 16. Felt markers are not good to use as lipstick. - Lauren, 9 > 17. Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat. > - Joel, 10 > 18. When you get a bad grade in school, show it to your mom > when she's on the phone. - Alyesha, 13 > 19. Never try to baptize a cat. - Eileen, 8 > > \\|// 0 0 -oOOo---(_)---oOOo [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 Label with Expression
Gary- I'd like to know how you got it centrered. I've been putting in two line lables for a while and wanted to centre some of them. Anyways, I was labelling from two columns with an expression like NameColumn + chr$(13) + DataColumn. The chr$(13) inserts a Carriage Return/LineFeed. Always seemed to be left justified for me. Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ON > -Original Message- > From: Talbot, Gary W [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 12:14 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: MI Label with Expression > > I am using a labeling with expression and inputting a return, so I have 2 > lines. The result comes back center justified, and I want it left > Justified. > I can not find anywhere to change it. Does anyone have a solution? > > > From > Gary W. Talbott > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 562-491-2817 > PAX: 32817 > > Visit our website and check out what we can do for you. > http://edna.sce.com/map/indexlm.htm > -- > 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: 3D Landscape Visualization
I'm attempting to investigate different 3D visualization packages, including Virtual Frontier and GenesisII. I seem to remember a thread about a month and a half ago that may have mentioned something called VROOM, but I'm not sure. Does anyone have any info/comments on this or any other package(s) to try out? TIA, will sum _______ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ON -- 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: Version 5.0 bug?
Hi Listers- I've been working on a complex series of maps with tons of labels, and experiencing the joy of having to re-arrange 3/4 of them. The problem comes up when using the Magnifyer to zoom into a densely labelled area to move them, then MapInfo totally hangs up and the WinNT TaskManager shows 100% CPU usage when trying to redraw the new zoom. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a bug, or just an undocumented feature that lets me EndTask on MapInfo and set up my workspace again? Any tips would be appreciated. System: PentiumPro 200, WinNTv4.0, sp4, MapInfo 5.01 Jason __ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 -- 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 to Canon ImageClass C2100 PS
Good day listers- I've just recieved a new toy - a Canon colour laser printer. The print quality is very high, and with some tinkering, the colour matching is not bad. It's best with photos and "raster" type graphics from any software - Except MapInfo (v5.01 in this case). Here's the problem - When printing a raster airphoto overlaid with topography, the Cannon dithers it out to a completely unusable cell size, while the trusty HP755 makes a nice smooth image. I do know that the Canon spends considerable time processing the image to PostScript3 internally before shooting out the print. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be much appreciated. ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ONM4H 1N6 Tel: 416.423.5811 Fax: 416.423.9944 \\|// 0 0 -oOOo---(_)---oOOo [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 Pro Thematic Maps
Alex- This is a little feature of MapInfo that always draws map objects by Rowid, not the thematic value. Even sorting and saving will not always work if you pack or add/change an object - they are all internally re-numbered. The best solution (which I use daily) is to query everything in the table with Sort By... [your intended thematic column] to a new table (call it PopAsc I guess. The default name is Query1 of course). Now Add that Query table to your layer structure and turn off the display of it and the original table that created it. Make your thematic on this new table, and it will redraw with the Highest values on top. For Varying circles, you may want the biggest on the botttom so you can still see the small ones. In that case just add desc (for descending) to the Sort By... [column] line in the query dialog. This technique simply redraws the map objects from the Top down (browser order), regardless of what kind of thematic you want. Newer MI versions (4.5-5.0) will save this query in the workspace so you don't have to re-do it everytime you want to look at your project. Good Luck- __ Jason Adam Computer Draftsperson Monopros Limited One William Morgan Drive Toronto, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Alex Eshed [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 4:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI Pro Thematic Maps > > Greetings, List. > > A point file (cities) has a numeric field (population). A thematic > map is produced with Point Ranges, with a setting of circles arranged > by size. > > Strangely (?) enough, there is no consistency as to how these circles > overlap. Some of the large circles overlap smaller ones, and some of > the large circles are overlapped by the small ones. I tried sorting > the file by population, saving it that way, recreating all the > graphics (after the sort) and using it as the base file for > thematics. Same result. > > One would expect that the drawing of symbols in a THEMATIC map would > be in the sequence of the values being "themed" and thus either the > largest symbols would be drawn first and the smaller ones would be > visible above it, or the largest symbols would be drawn last, > concealing all, or part, of the smaller symbols underneath it. > > Has anyone found a method to actually achieve the consistent effect > described above? > > TIA to all responders. > > Best regards, > Alex Eshed > Digi-Tek Ltd. > 12, Homa St., Rishon LeZion, 75655, Israel > Tel: +972-3-961-5840 > Fax: +972-3-961-5877 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dgtek.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 virus alert!
This is a hoax. Please check these "warnings" with one of many sites on the web. A snippet from http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/scares/california.html Name: California/Wobbler. Type: Virus hoax. Danger: NONE. Description: This hoax email warns that if you receive an email with an attached file called "California", you should not open the file as it contains the "WOBBLER" virus. It claims that this virus deletes all the files on the hard disk, and that it can run from Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, and can work on both PCs and Macintosh computers. The hoax attributes this information to a report from IBM. Whilst there is a joke program called WOBBLER or JOKE/WIN-WOBBLE (which makes the windows on your computer wobble), it is not a virus, and does not have the side-effects described in this message. It is a hoax. Many virus hoaxes falsely claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a well-known company ask you to forward it to all your friends and colleagues As usual, you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the continued re-forwarding of hoaxes like this simply wastes email bandwidth. It should be remembered that it is impossible for a virus to exist in the normal text portion of an email. A virus could be carried within a file attached to an email, but this could only be spread by detaching the file and executing it or (if it contains macros) opening it with an application that could execute the viral macros. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
