MI-L MapInfo-L Reminder

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4. MAPINFO-L ARCHIVES
5. TIPS
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Message number: 16539

MI-L Selection Tool for Multiple-Point Geometry

[Carden, Glen]

Title: Message





It appears that the 
Selection Tool requires the entire geometry of a record to be selected for it to 
be recognised, which presents a problem in circumstances such as where a user 
attempts to select one point that belongs to a record with a multiple point 
geometry type.
Are there any 
workarounds for this situation?
Many 
Thanks

Glen Carden
 
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Message number: 16540

MI-L Lines to Polygon Conversion

[Menelo Argiropoulos]

Good Day listers,
 
Does anyone out there know of a tool or software that can create polygons out 
of lines.  
 
I presently have a bounch of spagetti line work that came in from a CAD program 
that represent the boundaries of parcels.  I need to convert them into their 
polygon format.
 
I would manually do this if there were only a few, however, I have about 80 000 
parcels that need to be ceated from hundreds of thousands of lines.
 
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Thanks
 
Manny
 
 
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MI-L set map order

[Alan Gunn]

Hello,

Does anyone know a trick to automatically put a layer that you open on
the bottom in mapbasic? I can't seem to think of a way when the number
of layers is always changing. Would this be a sort of loop that you set
up with the set map order command? 

Thanks for any tips, 

Alan

MI-L Register Table

[Ian Robertson]

Hi All, 
 
Is it possible to register a table such that the tab file is in one
location (where I have permission to r/w) and the source file is in
another location (where I don't have permission to r/w)? 
 
Ian
 
 

RE: MI-L Register Table

[Nabors, Steve]

I'm assuming you mean (where I don't have permission to r/w) = no permission
at all.

You can register the table in one location and have the source file in
another assuming have at least read rights in the source location.  As soon
as you change the read rights to no permission at all, you can no longer
open the source file via the register file.


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From: Ian Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:31 AM
To: Mapinfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com
Subject: MI-L Register Table

Hi All, 
 
Is it possible to register a table such that the tab file is in one location
(where I have permission to r/w) and the source file is in another location
(where I don't have permission to r/w)? 
 
Ian
 
 


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Message number: 16544

MI-L using Blue Marble Geographic Tracker & usb GPS

[Cummings, Mike]

Sam & list,

I just received a laptop (XP) with MI Pro 6.5 & a garmin 18 which uses a
USB port.  I like to use the geographic tracker software.  I notice that
the geographic tracker software looks for a COM port & doesn't recognize
the GPS on the USB port.  Is there a way to get the software to
recognize a USB GPS unit or am I limited to a serial port connection?  

Thanks,
Mike Cummings   



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Message number: 16545

MI-L Thank You

[Mayer, Mike @ Vancouver]

Hello Everyone,
This is just a thank you to everyone on the list for all the help over the
past few months.  Thanks for putting up with my constant postings.  My
Practicum/project has been very successful, and I owe a good portion of that
to help from this list.  Thanks again.

Mike Mayer
(GIS Practicum Student..Finished!!)


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Message number: 16546

re: MI-L using Blue Marble Geographic Tracker & usb GPS

[Sam Knight]

Hello Mike & Listers,
With the next release of MapInfo Professional an updated version of the 
Geographic Tracker will be included.  The update will include support for the 
Garmin protocol, and USB connectivity for Garmin units.  The Garmin protocol is 
also enabled for Garmin units with an RS232 (serial) connection.   

Currently in version 3.2 of the Geographic Tracker-MapInfo Edition, available 
at our website, you have the ability to connect to a USB GPS if the GPS can 
utilize one of the supported protocols (NMEA or TSIP) on COMs 1-12.  Many USB 
enabled GPS units (non-Garmin) can communicate using the NMEA protocol, and 
come with software drivers to emulate COM communication.  Due to the explosion 
in popularity of the Garmin USB-enabled handhelds which can only communicate 
via the Garmin proprietary protocol, support for the protocol was an obvious 
next step.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.  

Regards,
Sam Knight

Applications Specialist
Blue Marble Geographics

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FROM:  "Cummings, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED],>
DATE:  Fri, 20 May 2005 11:46:36 -0700

SUBJECT:   MI-L using Blue Marble Geographic Tracker & usb GPS

Sam & list,

I just received a laptop (XP) with MI Pro 6.5 & a garmin 18 which uses a
USB port.  I like to use the geographic tracker software.  I notice that
the geographic tracker software looks for a COM port & doesn't recognize
the GPS on the USB port.  Is there a way to get the software to
recognize a USB GPS unit or am I limited to a serial port connection?  

Thanks,
Mike Cummings   

   

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MI-L Read Only Layers

[Ali, Naz @ Vancouver]

Hello,
We had a custom Map Basic application that was created for us.  The
application runs smoothly on my machine.  Next, we wanted to install the
application on a co-workers computer.  We upgraded his version of MapInfo to
7.8, we did a whole new install, old version was 5.5.  Then we ran the
application on his machine.  However when we went to load the workspace, the
file did not load correctly because some of the files were read only.  We
looked in the layer control and noticed that all layers were greyed out if
wanted to make them editable.  Even if we selected the layer to be visible,
it still cannot be edited.  When we try to geocode an address, it tells us
the layer is read-only and shuts the custom application down.  We don't
think it is the application as it runs fine on other machines, any ideas
what could be going wrong??? Thanks in advance.
 
Naz Ali | GIS Marketing Services
CB Richard Ellis Limited
 West Georgia Street, Suite 600 | Vancouver, BC V6E 4M3
T 604 662 5173 | F 604 684 9368
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