MI Friday funnies: Farmer Joe

Farmer Joe Farmer Joe decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company (responsible for the accident) to court. In court the trucking company's fancy lawyer was questioning farmer Joe. "Didn't you say, at the scene

RE: MI What to do before we Format PC

It does look like a Tux hiccup ... isn't it emmanuel ? : ) Linux addicts often do this kind of things cause you learn a lot about formatting and partitionning a disk when installing this OS, and you do it many times too ... And afterwards, one is taking real bad habbits, like expecting for a

MI mapinfo for power system application

hi list, is there anyone from the mapinfo user, use mapinfo for power system application ( transmission and/or distribution ) since mapinfo has no network facility, are these can be done, or perhaps connection or interface with power system application like pss/e, digsilent, etc. ? thank you.

MI Changes to Overlaynodes in MapInfo 5.5

The results of the overlaynodes function appears to have changed in version 5.5. On previous versions, if you had 2 simple polylines that intersected at a single point, the result was a polyline with an extra node added to it. With version 5.5, the resulting object is now a polyline made up from

MI Re: Sri Lanka National Grid System

Gentlemen I have a couple of station descriptions in my possession and a report, both with details on 2 stations in the Port Area of Colombo. One of the stations is as below. I do not know if the WGS 84 UTM coordinates are of any use to anyone, they are just part of my output. Mal Jones

Re: MI Undocumented

Hello again, Well, the CommandInfo connection Mark pointed out seens to be quite usefull, since including following line to SaveTableEditsHandler Procedure will not trigger "Do you want to save your changes?" dialog, but discard all changes. Set Command Info CMD_INFO_EDIT_STATUS To

SV: MI Q: Append rows to table (cont.)

OK, a quick suggestion: Make a copy of your table, specifying a new bounds. You can do this using the Mapbasic window, like this: 1) Open your second (target) table in Mapinfo. 2) Bring up the Mapbasic window (menu Options, Show Mapbasic Window). 3) In the Mapbasic Window, type note

MI The beauty of ODBC and other small things

Hello Mappets, I've got a problem with workspaces and their lack of ODBC connections. If i open an ODBC table the dialog box prompts me to save the table. I select a name and save. Then i save the workspace. If i then examine the workspace using notepad, i notice that the table opened by

MI Friday Humor: Putting A Name To It . . .

Corporate Buzzwords for 2000 and Beyond . . . Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. Body Nazis: Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting

MI Selecting Lines w/ Region Select

I came across something interesting today: You apparently cannot select lines in a region using the Region Select tool. This is probably because lines do not appear to have a centroid (they do not show up when you set "Show Centroids" on in Layer Control). Seems like all geographical

RE:MI Legend tweaking

Rick I'm not sure how MI determines the display order in legends but you can open your workspace in a text editor and change it. Just locate the line labelled 'Create Cartographic Legend' and wreak whatever havoc you want. You can also add new legends by cutting and pasting this section,

MI mapbasic pixshow-bug with workspaces

Just wanted to let everyone know of a small bug that has been bothering the hell out of me. I downloaded the mapbasic pixshow utility so that I could create hotlinks from points to images. Well it turns out that all will run smoothly until you save your work in a workspace. After doing

MI converting Mapinfo to illustrator

Hi, I am desperately trying to get a layout (created in V5) into a suitable format for adobe illustrator. I thought (foolishly) that if I wrote the postscript out to a file, I could then convert it to EPS and so onwards into adobe illustrator. Not so, none of my postscript drivers produce

Re: MI Selecting Lines w/ Region Select

Steve, It works on mine. However, I do remember seeing similar things, with points, too. It seemed to work when I held the control key; This was with a MB app, too-not shrinkwrap. I'm not sure if the order of the layers (i.e. lines on top of region or region on top of line) makes a

Re: MI Selecting Lines w/ Region Select

Steve Wallace wrote: I came across something interesting today: You apparently cannot select lines in a region using the Region Select tool. This is probably because lines do not appear to have a centroid (they do not show up when you set "Show Centroids" on in Layer Control). Seems like all

Re: MI Is there a dissolve command for MapInfo?

- Original Message - I am trying to duplicate the function of the "dissolve" command used in Arc/Info to remove some grid lines. Any help is appreciated. ANSWER: Well, if I think back to my college days . . . The "dissolve" command in ARC/INFO merges adjacent polygons and saves the

Re: Where to look for Help with MI functions?

Hi Steve! "Katz, Steve" wrote on the MI-list: [DELETIA] The response involved the use of the ProportionOverlap function and looked like just the answer to a problem I was having. [DELETIA] How was I supposed to discover this function on my own? What other "hidden" functions and capabilities

MI: Daylight Savings information

Anyone know of a source of information on Daylight Savings?I have Time Zone layer, but I really need to know where the time change takes place. A free source is better than a pay source, and pay source is better than no source! Thanks for the help in advance! Don

Re: Where to look for Help with MI functions?

All that good stuff is in MapBasic. It's not mentioned in the MapInfo docs, but it's fully described in the MapBasic ones. Using MapBasic to enhance the jobs you do in MapInfo is like attaching jets to your skateboard. That little old mapbasic window has got a lot of power in it for those who