MI Help - printing to scale - again
Hello list, I need again to ask for help with this touchy subject. I use MI to print the base charts the Hurricane Center uses to plot tropical weather. The base chart is a Mercator projection of the Atlantic Ocean basin, with surrounding land. The distance from feature to land, and other measurements, is correct in MI as measured on-screen, and the same distances are correct when they are laid off against the meridians of the printed chart. So at least we aren't telling people the storm is 500 miles away when it really is just 300 miles off. The chart is printed at a "called out" scale of 1:6,000,000. That is, in the Layout mode, when the Frame Object menu pops up the scale is set to 1:6,000.000. The problem is that the printed distance between meridians is not to the 1:6,000,000 scale!!! At that scale I calculate the distance between meridians should be about 1.85 cm. The as-printed distance is about 1.6 cm. That means the printed scale really is about 1:6,945,000. The printer, an HP 2500 PC, has been checked and has an error both vertical and horizontal of about 1 mm in 750 mm. The problem could be ignored by using 1:6,945,000 in the legend, but I'd rather learn how to get the "real" scale to print. Thanks for reading this far. Standing by for assistance with 1) a new roll of paper in the plotter and 2) palm extended and forehead within striking distance. Dr. Stephen Baig Oceanographer, National Hurricane Center Miami, FL 305.229. [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 Mapinfo & Russian sub
From the web-site of the firm that built/owns/operates the rescue mini-sub on its way to work on the Kursk: The SRMS has been developed by RUMIC Ltd on behalf of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and is used by the Submarine Escape and Rescue Project to help co-ordinate rescue assets in the event of a submarine incident. The SRMS is a dedicate[d] application written to take advantage of 'MapInfo Professional' one of the world's leading graphical mapping systems. The SRMS software has been written to display submarine rescue assets such as ships, ROVs and rescue submersibles, but it is very flexible and can easily be modified to present any kind of data, static or dynamic. There are several features built into the system which allow the user to quickly find the nearest asset type to an incident and display its vital information such as global position, contact name, telephone number and current operational status - all vital information required in the mobilisation of rescue assets.
Re: MI USGS DEM files to MapInfo?
In addition to "microdem" you might also check out "terrabas2" from the U.S.Army, and/or NIMAMUSE 2.1. It's been some time since I used either of these to convert USGS DEM's to somehing that MI could ingest but they worked very well for entire tiles. at 11:20 PM 14-08-00 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, > >Managed to download USGS DEM file. I want to be able to open it in MapInfo. >What kind of trick is required? Probably some translation software is involved? > >The extensions involved are: .DEM, .DMW, .SCH, .HDR, .SRC, .STX, .PRJ > >Best regards, > >Ole Frank > >A message from a Macintosh >NIELSEN CONSULTPhone: +45 33919030 >Skindergade 23, 3. Cellular: +45 20144814 >1159 Copenhagen K Fax: +45 33919032 >Denmark Dr. Stephen Baig Oceanographer, National Hurricane Center Miami, FL 305.229. [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 miles and kilometres
I thought kids were measured in decibels. Stephen Baig, father of two At 02:49 PM 23-05-00 -0400, you wrote: > > An interesting addendum to the original question about whether miles or > kilometers are used in Puerto Rico...the correct answer is...BOTH. > > Distances are always expressed in kilometers but speed limits are expressed > in MPH. This was done after painful experience determined that many PR > drivers were interpreting an 85 KMH (50 MPH) speed limit by the big numbers > on their speedometers. Gasoline is delivered in litters, but oil is in > quarts and plantains are in pounds. Kids are measured in inches and so on and > so on. > > Best > > John Haynes > Director > Geodata Consultants, Inc. > 1-800-838-6661 > <http://www.geodataconsult.com>www.geodataconsult.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]
Re: MI [Fwd: Gas Out - April 7,8,9] = more B.S.
At 11:35 PM 02-03-00 -0400, you wrote: >This isn't exactly related to the list but I figure that if we all band >together maybe we can afford that new MapInfo version coming around the >bend this year instead of spending the money on gas. > >Stan Johnston ...or enuf for a simple course in economics at a GOOD Canadian university. Or, perhaps, enuf to pay for the generation of the electricity it's taking to promulgate this piece of garbage around the world---again. Here's the response from Urban Legends: Pain in the Gas Claim: Your participating in a 'gas out' will help bring the retail price of gasoline down. Status: False. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000] Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across Canada and the U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it worked. It's time to do something about it again. Only this time lets make it for three days instead of just one. The so-called oil cartel decided to slow production to drive up gasoline prices. Lets see how many Canadian\American people we can get to ban together for a three day period in April, NOT TO BUY ANY GASOLINE,during those three days. LET'S HAVE A GAS OUT. Do not buy any gasoline from APRIL 7, 2000, THROUGH APRIL 9, 2000. Buy what you need before the dates listed above, or after, but try not to buy any during the GAS OUT. If you want to help, just send this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. We brought the prices down once before, and we can do it again. Come on North America lets stand together. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!. Even if you receive this 100 times keep passing it around, this way you know everyone is being informed and no one will forget!!! Origins: Just when we thought we had safely consigned this one to the dustbin of ephemera, it rears its ugly head again. It was a silly idea last year, and it's just as silly this year -- even more so, in fact, since the failure of last year's "gas out" effort should have been sufficient to convince any remaining doubters of its futility. Never mind that gasoline -- whatever its price today -- is still cheaper in adjusted dollars than it has been at any time in the last century or so. Never mind that gasoline is still far less expensive in the USA than in almost any other country not awash in oil. Never mind that gasoline prices are subject to the same effects of supply and demand as any other product. Nah, if gasoline prices go up ten cents a gallon for reasons that aren't readily apparent to the average driver (who probably knows little about the workings of his automobile, much less the oil industry), it's purely the result of unscrupulous price fixing by that greedy "oil cartel" (whoever that may be), and it's time for us to get hopping mad and do something about it. The "something" in this case is, once again, an ineffectual "protest" that involves no sacrifice whatsoever on the part of the consumer. Last year's "gas out" didn't make gasoline prices go down, either in the the short term or the long term -- gasoline prices went up immediately after last year's "gas out," and gasoline is more expensive now than it was this time last year. Exactly how last year's "gas out" can be said to have "worked" therefore remains a mystery. Perhaps the answer lies in a popular definition of "insanity": repeating the same actions but expecting different results. As we said last year, simply shifting the day on which people buy gasoline one week of the year has absolutely zero economic effect on oil companies because they're still selling the same amount of product at the same prices, so a "gas out" isn't going to bring a corporate giant like Exxon to its knees (or even make them pay attention). An event like this can sometimes do some good by calling attention to a cause and sending a message, but not in this case -- the only message being sent to oil companies is: "We consumers are so desperate for gasoline that we can't even do without it one week out of the year in order to protest its price." What oil company is going to respond to a message like that by lowering its prices? The whole "gas out" scheme is so absurd that we can't help but wonder if it isn't promulgated by the oil companies themselves in order to distract consumers from really doing something about the price of gasoline, like buying smaller cars, using alternative sources of energy, or even . . . driving less. Last updated: 29 February 2000 The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/gasout.htm Please use this URL in all links or references to this page Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2000 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
Re: MI Serious PC Spy Problem:=*another* hoax
Sig,
Just what we all need to read first thing Monday morning---another hoax.
Might we request that posters of security alerts do at least a cursory
check on e.g. deja.com
before posting?
Stephen Baig
Readers interested enough in this one might turn to http://kumite.com/myths/
and read the entirety of
MYTH: Aureate DLLs Trojan
Various 'alerts' claim Aureate Media, Inc. gathers personal data on
Internet users via covert software. Hysteria got in the
way of the facts in this case...
The facts
1.The myth about Aureate began when someone publicized a private
email from Net-Defender president Dale Haag without his knowledge or
permission. "[My] comments have been misconstrued and taken out of
context," Haag stressed during an interview. "They were not for public
release, nor were they complete. These were initial comments &
observations based off a cursory inspection after installing a product
[with
Aureate's DLLs in it], running the product, de-installing it, making sure
everything was removed correctly, and then inspecting the PC to verify
that any other components added to the system were properly
de-installed as well."
2.Richard M. Smith, the media's reigning security expert on covert data
collection, concurred with Haag about the
"misconstrued" email. "You need to use a packet sniffer to know what's
really going on," Smith explained. "It tells you
what data is going out the wire, and it tells you when. Data that goes
out for a voluntary survey is quite a bit different
from data that goes out on the sly."
3.Smith performed his own cursory study of Aureate's product. He decided
not to pursue a more detailed analysis
based mostly on his findings (and based partly on statements from the
company). "The probability here is pretty low
that there's any monkey business going on," Smith concluded. "I don't
see any 'extra' information going out... [Aureate
makes] it clear you can volunteer information if you want; and it's
opt-in, which I think is the right approach. In terms of
Internet marketing companies, their data privacy policies are well
above average."
4.Haag did not try to stage a media event at Aureate's expense. Nor did
he try to alert the media about his overall
concerns regarding data privacy. "I did not initiate contact with any
reporters," Haag asserted during an interview.
("Including yourself," he added.)
Interview with Dale Haag (Net-Defender president) folows.
At 11:03 PM 26-02-00 +0700, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>NOTE: Read this *mail* ONLY if you are interested in protecting your
>PC from someone spying. A serial allegation has been made against the
>Aureate Medial Library Files in doing so and some common programs that
>we use has been found using these library files. This mail is 616
>lines long, so it's upto you. Mac and Unix users are Safe.
>--slash-
>
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MI Mobile phones warning=urban legend
Did a Deja search for "Mobile Phones Warning" and turned up the following. > Just caught this little snippet - > > > > Subject: Mobile.Phone Fraud > > > Sorry Ray, load of spherical objects. Discussed extensively in uk.telecom.mobile and almost getting enough whiskers to become an urban legend in its own lifetime. Seems the latest incarnation came via Oz, though I seem to remember seeing something similar a few years back from the US. These from Deja. Also try http://www.UrbanLegends.com/ and search for . --quote-- In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 13 Jul 1999 15:55:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]éencroute.fr said... > > > Supposedly, someone will call you on your GSM and ask you to press > 09# or 90# claiming it's to test your telephone. > > If you do this your GSM is supposed to transmit your unique card > number to the other party wich will then be able to use it at your > expence to make a copy of your card. > > It has, I think, all the major symptoms of a UL, it starts by claiming > that it's from an well known governmental office, and ends by telling > you to thansmit this information to as many as you possibly can. > > This has been in the UK for a while, taken seriously by all sorts of people, finally firmly denied by the cellular networks (only finally, some were involved for a while in spreading it). It's a morph of an AT&T story about pabx's being vulnerable to a 90 scam, which had some truth behind it but then changed to residential phones then to cellular. The first thing I can find about it is: A Telstra press release: http://www.telstra.com.au/press/yr98/nov98/98111803.htm Telstra debunks nine zero # myth 18 November, 1998 Telstra today declared that a widespread rumour that an unathorised caller could access a customer's mobile telephone service by asking the owner to dial 9 0 # (hash) was a myth. National General Manager, Mobile Networks, Mr Kevin Phillips said, "Dialling 90# absolutely will NOT allow a third party to access your mobile phone to make calls on your account or otherwise to interfere with your mobile service. "This is the case for any Telstra service, however it is also true for any mobile service on any network in Australia." Mr Phillips said the urban myth appeared to have been propagated world-wide through email and internet sources and is likely to have started from a scam effecting PABX's (fixed network Private Automatic Exchanges) in the USA some years ago. "It has no relevance to Australia or to mobile services," Mr Phillips said. Media enquiries: Anton Jones Public Affairs Manager - NTG&M (07) 3832 5018 0419 313 629 505/98 --end quote-- --next quote-- In article <7ik5ia$32m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wombat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work for what (to spare any blushes) I will describe as a medium sized law > enforcement agency somewhere in the UK. Recently a communication was put > out on our General Orders, by the Head of Communications, that all owners of > mobile phones should be wary of calls from people claiming to be working for > their telephone company (I think Vodaphone in particular was mentioned), and > asking them to dial #09. False. False, even for the sequence of buttons that the UL is actually about: 90#, not #09. This story was vectored by the BBC TV programme _Watchdog_ in a spur-of-the-moment broadcast of something a phone-in viewer warned th
