[MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files
Hello Listers, I have a massive amount of tab files (from a landline dataset). Which I would like to open to create a base map. However when I highlight all the files to open on the current map, MapInfo does nothing. If I select say 100 of the files to open, then they will open fine but as there are thousands it would take along time to open them this way. Has anyone come across this problem before? Are there any tools that will systematically open a folder full of tab files until they are all open? Any help would as always be very much appreciated. Thanks a million! - John ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
RE: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files
John, I think there is an upper limit to how many tables you can open at a time. It might be 255, but I'm not sure. I can see two solutions: 1. Make a seamless table that opens a number or all the tables. You do of course have to open the tables once to create the seamless table and the tables need to have the same table structure. 2.Write a Mapbasic application that opens all tables in a folder Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical Information IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311 4908 Mob +45 5156 1045 Fax +45 6311 4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk/gis From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John NottSent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:04 AMTo: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.comSubject: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files Hello Listers, I have a massive amount of tab files (from a landline dataset). Which I would like to open to create a base map. However when I highlight all the files to open on the current map, MapInfo does nothing. If I select say 100 of the files to open, then they will open fine but as there are thousands it would take along time to open them this way. Has anyone come across this problem before? Are there any tools that will systematically open a folder full of tab files until they are all open? Any help would as always be very much appreciated. Thanks a million! - John ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
RE: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files
Title: Message John, I have this exact problem. I have to open tabs in batches of 300. I'm trying to create a seamless map of thousands of georeferenced raster tiles. I asked this question a while ago on MI-L, but I just checked and I had no replies :-/ http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/tdc/mapinfo-l.nsf/12dcce0bd0474519852564370063f39d/4a49969154bf435f85257102005f1ed2?OpenDocument http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/tdc/mapinfo-l.nsf/12dcce0bd0474519852564370063f39d/011da613a954c87e85256f8f006227b5?OpenDocument Tim -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John NottSent: 04 April 2006 09:04To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.comSubject: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files Hello Listers, I have a massive amount of tab files (from a landline dataset). Which I would like to open to create a base map. However when I highlight all the files to open on the current map, MapInfo does nothing. If I select say 100 of the files to open, then they will open fine but as there are thousands it would take along time to open them this way. Has anyone come across this problem before? Are there any tools that will systematically open a folder full of tab files until they are all open? Any help would as always be very much appreciated. Thanks a million! - John __This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
Ang. [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files
Hi John! I seem to recall that there is a limit on how many tab files can be displayed in a mapper,or open in MapInfo at the same time. Perhaps it's in the Wiki? Try opening your tab files with no view to begin with, gradually increasing the number of files until it breaks. Then try adding the number you can open to one mapper window, in the same way and see how far you can get. But on the whole, I really think you should reconsider your database design. What can be the rationale to use thousands of tab files for a base map? Because even if you could open and display so many files, their use as a base map would be completely impractical simply beacuse of the sheer number of files involved. Hälsning / Best regards Mats.E FB Engineering AB Södra Förstadsgatan 26 211 43 Malmö Tel: 040-660 25 50 Mobil: 0705-27 60 27 Fax: 040-660 25 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fbe.se John Nott [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Nott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sänt av: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-04-04 10:04 Till MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Kopia Ärende [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files Hello Listers, I have a massive amount of tab files (from a landline dataset). Which I would like to open to create a base map. However when I highlight all the files to open on the current map, MapInfo does nothing. If I select say 100 of the files to open, then they will open fine but as there are thousands it would take along time to open them this way. Has anyone come across this problem before? Are there any tools that will systematically open a folder full of tab files until they are all open? Any help would as always be very much appreciated. Thanks a million! - John ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
Re: [MI-L] Strangely Visible Outlines.
Andy, I've experienced this and if I've interpreted your question correctly, you will be using version 8? The solution is described below and was sent to me by MapInfo support Europe. " In version 8.0 of MapInfo Professional we enhanced our support for bivariate thematic maps and introduced the option to 'Replace Layer Styles'. When this option is selected the layer(s) under the thematic map are not drawn, if this option is checked the underlying layer is drawn regardless of whether it is set to visible or not in the Layer Control. Therefore to get your layer to display correctly, go to Options Preferences Map Window and check the option to 'Draw layers under themes'. This will then ensure that the 'Replace layer styles' option in the thematic options is unselected. Therefore when you turn off your base layer only your thematic map is displayed." Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/2006 16:20:57 ListersI have create a thematic map of Japan using a grid of 387,000 1km squaresjoined to 65,000 records in an Access database. I checked the 'ignorezeroes etc' and have made the original grid layer invisible. For eachrange in the thematic, I have removed the outline but I can still see thegrids with no data with an outline (even though I have changed the originalto no outline). Any ideas? If indeed you can understand what I am goingon about.ThanksAndyDisclosure of Material FactsEvery Proposer or Insured / Reinsured when seeking new insurance / reinsurance or renewing an existing Policy must disclose any information which might influence the Insurer / Reinsurer in deciding whether or not to accept the risk, what the terms should be, or what premiums to charge. Failure to do so may render the insurance / reinsurance voidable from inception and enable the Insurer / Reinsurer to repudiate liability.This email, together with any attachments, is for the exclusive and confidential use of the addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged information. Any other distribution, use or reproduction without the sender's prior consent is unauthorised and strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by email immediately and delete the message from your computer without making any copies. While attachments are virus checked, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. We accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.Aon LimitedRegistered Office: 8 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4PLRegistered in London No. 210725 . VAT Registration No. 480 8401 48Aon Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in respect of insurance mediation activities only.___MapInfo-L mailing listMapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.comhttp://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
[MI-L] RE: Disappearing Geosoft Grids
Yvonne, Is there a pink check in your layer control under the Geosoft layer for Visibility? If so, Automatic Zoom Layering is turning off the grid when it is at such a fine detail that it you can not distinguish the resolution and it will take much longer to redraw. You can turn off this option from the Display button in the layer control or turn off the automatic feature under the menu Options Preferences Map Window. Kirk Regular www.digeos.ca -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:56 PM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: MapInfo-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6 Send MapInfo-L mailing list submissions to mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of MapInfo-L digest... Today's Topics: 1. Disappearing Geosoft Grids (Yvonne Bowen) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:18:24 -0700 From: Yvonne Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MI-L] Disappearing Geosoft Grids To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, I'm having issues printing my Geosoft grids in MapInfo. I'm using the Geosoft plug-in, and when I zoom in to the image (i.e. at actual size) I have no problems viewing the grid. However when I zoom to the full extent of the layout the grid disappears. Sometimes when I print, the grid reappears, but more often than not the layout does not print with the grid. I can seem to get around the problem by opening up a new map window and displaying the grid, although this can be a hassle when there's a lot of info to recreate (merely cloning the map window does not work). Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, Yvonne Bowen, GIS Technician Strongbow Exploration Inc. Suite 800-625 Howe St Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2T6 (604) 668-8373 www.strongbowexploration.com -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 576181 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.directionsmag.com/pipermail/mapinfo-l/attachments/20060403/8d9c62 b7/winmail.bin -- ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l End of MapInfo-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6 *** ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
[MI-L] Opening Large Amount of Tab
Hi The best solution i have open Windows Search write *.tab specify the paht then select All ( from edit menu) drag and drop into mapinfo be sure there should not any Dialog active in mapinfo. this will open all and will not open any window so easily you can do what ever you want regards Ahmet DABANLI Teknik Müdür - Çevre Mühendisi Başar Bilgisayar Sist. ve İlt. Tek. Ltd. Şti. www.basarsoft.com.tr Cep Tel: 0 532 6417446 Ankara: 32. sok. No:22/7-11, Oğuzlar Mah. Balgat ÇANKAYA Tel: 0 312 285 9117 Fax: 0 312 285 8934 Teknokent: Gümüş Bloklar, Zemin Kat D:4 ODTÜ, ANKARA Tel: 0 312 210 0002-03 İstanbul: Derya Sok. No:3/2, Sahrayıcedit Mah. KADIKÖY Tel: 0 216 355 7942 Fax: 0 216 355 7943 ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
[MI-L] UTM Zone 29N - Exporting from Geosoft to MapInfo
Listers, I am having some trouble exporting images from Geosoft as MapInfo tiffs. Usually when I do this the tiff comes into MapInfo as a registered image in the same coordinate system as Geosoft. The Geosoft data is in UTM 29N but when I bring the image into MapInfo it plots approx 300km east of its true position. My suspicion is that there may be a discrepancy between Geosoft UTM 29N and the MapInfo version or possibly the local datum. Has anyone come across this before or can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks, Ian Ian Farrelly ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
Re: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files
Hi John This is not the best way to cope with Landline, or any other large dataset. With both CAD and GIS systems it is best to have all similar objects such as roads on one single layer, all buildings on another single layer etc etc. Thus your dataset could reduce to the 63 layers that Landline contains or less if you want to combine some features like vegetation to a single layer. Most translators for Landline data and its replacement MasterMap would translate the data this way including our MapNTF and MapGML products. As you must have licensing to use this data you will presumably have access to the original NTF data. There is an evaluation copy of MapNTF on our website. By combining objects in such a fashion you can easily turn on and off visibility of a single set of features. You can also carry out text searches on the text layers. Further performance will be vastly better as only data that hits the screen will be read whereas the approach you are trying will need to open every file. Windows itself has a limit to how may files cab be opened at one time, and bear in mind MapInfo layers are made up of four files, and if indexed five files. Regards Bob .MapsByDesign.co.uk - Original Message - From: John Nott To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:04 AM Subject: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files Hello Listers, I have a massive amount of tab files (from a landline dataset). Which I would like to open to create a base map. However when I highlight all the files to open on the current map, MapInfo does nothing. If I select say 100 of the files to open, then they will open fine but as there are thousands it would take along time to open them this way. Has anyone come across this problem before? Are there any tools that will systematically open a folder full of tab files until they are all open? Any help would as always be very much appreciated. Thanks a million! - John ___MapInfo-L mailing listMapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.comhttp://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
Re: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files
John, here is some MapBasic code! But I do not know how it works with thousands of files... Dr. Franz-Josef Behr http://www.gis-news.de '- Sub ImportAllFilesInDirectory(byval InputDirectory as string) '- Dim sInput(), sLayerName as string Dim sMIF_FileName, sTAB_FileName, sDXF_FileName as string Dim iCount, i as Integer OnError Goto STANDARD_ERROR_HANDLING print InputDirectory: + str$(InputDirectory) call FileListFromDirectory(InputDirectory, *.TAB, xxx, sInput) for i = 1 to UBound(sInput) sTAB_FileName = InputDirectory + sInput(i) print TAB_FileName: + str$(sTAB_FileName) Open Table sTab_FileName ReadOnly sLayerName = TableInfo(0,TAB_INFO_NAME) add map Window FrontWindow() Layer sLayerName next exit sub STANDARD_ERROR_HANDLING: note error$() print error$() end sub Define MAX_PATH 260 Define ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES 18 Define INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE -1 Type FILETIME dwLowDateTime As Integer dwHighDateTime As Integer End Type Type WIN32_FIND_DATA dwFileAttributes As Integer ftCreationTime As FILETIME ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME nFileSizeHigh As Integer nFileSizeLow As Integer dwReserved0 As Integer dwReserved1 As Integer cFileName As String * MAX_PATH cAlternate As String * 14 End Type Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib kernel32 Alias FindFirstFileA (ByVal lpFileName As String, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Integer Declare Function FindNextFile Lib kernel32 Alias FindNextFileA (ByVal hFindFile As Integer, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Integer Declare Function FindClose Lib kernel32 Alias FindClose (ByVal hFindFile As Integer) As Integer '- sub FileListFromDirectory(byval sPath as string, byval sFilenameTemplate as string, byval sExcludeTemplate as string, sFileList() as string) '- Dim hndl As Integer, fileinfo As WIN32_FIND_DATA dim sTableName as string dim iResult,iTableCount as integer OnError Goto STANDARD_ERROR_HANDLING iTableCount = 0 redim sFileList(iTableCount) 'print Suchen in sPath + + sFilenameTemplate hndl = FindFirstFile(sPath + sFilenameTemplate, fileinfo) If hndl INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then Do 'Print fileinfo.cFileName if (fileinfo.dwFileAttributes = 48) then ' 16) then ' directory goto PERHAPS_NEXT_FILE end if sTableName = mid$(fileinfo.cFileName,1,instr(1,fileinfo.cFileName,.)-1) if (sTableName = sExcludeTemplate) then goto PERHAPS_NEXT_FILE end if iTableCount = iTableCount + 1 redim sFileList(iTableCount) sFileList(iTableCount) = fileinfo.cFileName ' + _ + str$(fileinfo.dwFileAttributes) PERHAPS_NEXT_FILE: If FindNextFile(hndl, fileinfo) 1 Then Exit Do End If Loop While TRUE iResult = FindClose(hndl) End If exit sub STANDARD_ERROR_HANDLING: note error$() end sub - Original Message - From: John Nott To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:04 AM Subject: [MI-L] MI-L Tool for Batch Opening Large Amount of Tab Files Hello Listers, I have a massive amount of tab files (from a landline dataset). Which I would like to open to create a base map. However when I highlight all the files to open on the current map, MapInfo does nothing. If I select say 100 of the files to open, then they will open fine but as there are thousands it would take along time to open them this way. Has anyone come across this problem before? Are there any tools that will systematically open a folder full of tab files until they are all open? Any help would as always be very much appreciated. Thanks a million! ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
RE: [MI-L] MapInfo versus Oracle Area
Title: MapInfo versus Oracle Area Robert, Im not really saying anything about the correct area of a shape, but the response from Oracle points to a difference in the way the systems perform computations. Having said that, it does seem that MapInfo is possibly taking something of a short-cut in area calculation spherical trig is easier that ellipsoidal trig. I may be wrong but I think the area of similar dimensioned objects on the surface of an ellipse varies according to where on that ellipse they are situated the curvier bit or the flatter bit. According to my rudimentary knowledge of ellipsoidal geometry they may even vary according to the shape and orientation of the object. All this may be at play in the discrepency you have found between total area and sum of constituent parts area. If you would like to forward me some simple sample data off-list (that shows the discrepancy), I would be happy to do a comparison of results between the systems. Cheers David -Original Message- From: Robert Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2006 2:19 PM To: Llewellyn, David Cc: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] MapInfo versus Oracle Area David, Thanks for your explanation. But now I am confused. Are you saying that the correct answer for the area of a one km square piece of ground is 0.997 sq km? This is probably related to the issue that I had a problem with, in that if you split the 1 km square polygon, calculated the proportion of the original area covered by each piece, and then summed up the proportion of those areas, you would expect to get 1, but actually got 0.997. To a surveyor this may make sense. R From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Llewellyn, David Sent: 04 April 2006 11:31 To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: [MI-L] MapInfo versus Oracle Area Dear List, A response you may find interesting regarding a question I had earlier about different areas being reported by MapInfo and Oracle Spatial: My original question related to the area being reported for a Mapinfo table (Lat/Long GDA94) containing a single square shaped polygon of 1km sides centred at 141 degrees East, 22 degrees South. In MapInfo the Area() or SphericalArea() function applied to this object returns: 0.69 square kilometres. After loading the table to Oracle Spatial and running the following SQL+ query the area returned is as shown: SELECT A.ID, SDO_GEOM.SDO_AREA(A.GEOLOC, 0.001, 'UNIT=SQ_KM') FROM TEST1 A ID SDO_GEOM.SDO_AREA(A.GEOLOC,0.001,'UNIT=SQ_KM') --- -- 0 .997368877 The Oracle area is significantly smaller than the MapInfo area. Why? The following response was provided by a member of the Oracle Spatial development team: Oracle's result is smaller than the MapInfo result by a factor of .997. This is precisely the ratio expected if MapInfo is returning spherical area using the authalic sphere for this GRS80 ellipsoid. This authalic sphere has radius 6371007 meters. The Oracle result is an ellipsoidal area, corrected for meridional and prime normal radii of curvature at the average location of the polygon. At -22 degrees latitude ( gleaned from an earlier post), this ellipsoidal correction is precisely a factor of .997 Best regards, David Llewellyn ***This Email, together with any attachments is intended for the addressee only. If you have received this Email in error please inform the sender immediately by return Email. Alternatively you can ring the National Native Title Tribunal on the toll free number 1800 640 501 and report the error. Please delete the Email and any copies from your computer and/or computer network. The Tribunal does not warrant that this email is virus free. The Tribunal has also implemented content filtering of Emails to restrict inappropriate and spam emails being received. Other emails which may contain viruses may also be blocked. In either case, and in any case the email may not reach its intended recipient. If the email is important you may wish to see confirmation of its receipt by placing that request in the text of the email. Please resend the email if you haven't received that confirmation as requested. *** ***This Email, together with any attachments is intended for the addressee only. If you have received this Email in error please inform the sender immediately by return Email. Alternatively you can ring the National Native Title Tribunal on the toll free number 1800 640 501 and report the error. Please delete the Email and any copies from your computer and/or computer network. The Tribunal does not warrant that this email is virus free. The Tribunal has also implemented content filtering of Emails to restrict inappropriate and spam emails being received. Other emails which may contain viruses may also be blocked. In either case, and in any case the email may not reach
[MI-L] ADD Orr and Associates - website update, FREE geology maps
Hi all Well we are happy to report that we are still here after Category 5 Cyclone hit our part of the world with wind gusts up to 290km/h (180 mph). Most of the buildings are fine here but therainforest in the area looks like it has suffered the effects of a nuclear blast. It took nearly 2 weeks to get the power back on (still many without) and things are now getting back to something approaching normal. Anyway we have updated our site (www.orrbodies.com)and we have a number of new maps available as well as FREE geology maps and mineral occurrence datasets for various parts of the world (e.g. US, Asia, South America, Arabia, Africa). Tom Orr Orr and Associates 4 Wildsoet Street Wongaling Beach Queensland Australia 4852 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
