MI Double Click

1999-09-15 Thread lct
Hi Lists   When double click a object on the map ,I want to run my own procedure ,how could I do this?   I'm programming with Delphi4+Mapinfo Professional.     Thanks a lot!       Ctlu

RE: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread Davis, Tim
Well said. Tim -Original Message- From: Richard E. Hoskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 3:56 PM To: Anthony Jay; MapInfo-L; "Sarah W Myers" Subject:Re: MI Hell

MI Re: ??????????

1999-09-15 Thread andre boessenkool
What has this to do with me??   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   - Original Message - From: Oliver Baethge To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 1999 07:12 subscribe-- --- THIS E-MAIL TRANSMISSION IS CONFIDENTIAL ---This e-mail transmission (including any accompanyingattatch

MI How to edit a polygon via OLE

1999-09-15 Thread Carter Hill
Within my PowerBuilder application, I am running an OLE conversation to MapInfo. While in this conversation, I am drawing polygons onto a workspace and then saving them into workspace's cosmetic layer. Later, I am reloading the workspace and I want to edit the polygon with the same add node/resha

Re: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread SUNIL KUMAR NELABHOTLA
One can do it in two ways I guess 1. Export the file in Access and delimeter being "-" abd then convert this to .tab format. 2. Save as text and then convert back to Excel with delimeter "-". This should solve the problem Sunil On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ryan

Re: MI Label question

1999-09-15 Thread Rod Dawney
Greg The way we do this is similar to the way you started but varies as described. Procedure: - View entire layer that you want to label (so that when you use autolabel, all points are labeled) - "Autolabel" your points - you're probably working with a small-scale map by now so you can set the l

Re: MI MapInfo 5.5 & MS Access 2000

1999-09-15 Thread Mats Elfström
Mike Walsh wrote: > This is a question that I think may have circulated before, but I can't > remember for sure. Is MapInfo 5.5 compatible with MS Access 2000? It > doesn't appear to be, as when I try to open an Access 2000 table directly > via MapInfo, I get an error telling me that it doesn't

MI floyd

1999-09-15 Thread Jon Spinney
.For those of you who want to chat about Floyd, try the weather channel chat room http://www.weather.com/interact/boards/?par=kaching&site=wx&promo=boards

MI Scale bar in feet

1999-09-15 Thread Tim Warman
Does anyone know of an mbx something like Jacques Paris' layerscale that will produce a scale on a layout in feet? Something that would produce a scale in feet in a map window would be a welcome second best. TIA, Tim _ Tim Warman Geologist & GIS Specialist Richard C. S

MI SUM: Zoom-To function

1999-09-15 Thread Jason Adam
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

MI RE: Hurricane links

1999-09-15 Thread glenn
Here's some more hurricane resources to investigate: Numerous other images http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics.html Real time links http://www.floridadisaster.org homepage of the Florida Division of Emergency Management http://www.floridadisaster.org/ June-November Atlantic Hurricane Outlook http:

Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hoskins
Folks: I suggest we attempt to respect each other and be as civil as possible. I am sure Anthony in fact has a life and an interesting one, and that Sarah is sincerely worried that people far away are in grave danger and hurting; maybe even relatives are in Harm's way. There is no conflict here.

FW: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Bruce Blais
Ryan; In your spreadsheet use the following formulas to convert to decimal degrees substituting your rows and columns for the N21 and O21 cell references below; For Lat. =LEFT(N21,2)+(MID(N21,4,2)/60)+(MID(N21,7,2)/3600) For Long. =-(LEFT(O21,3)+(MID(O21,5,2)/60)+(MID(O21,8,2)/3600)) NOTE TH

MI Label question

1999-09-15 Thread Greg Lindner
Hello list - I have a question in regard to labels. I'm using USGS quad tables, and am trying to angle the labels @ a 45 degrees ... not just a few labels, but thousands. I tried using the autolabel function, placing the labels on the cosmetic layer as objects, then rotating the labels with

RE: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Ryan Richter
Hi, I just wanted to thank everyone who responded to my original query.  I received about 10 emails with many different solutions, and I tried them all out, and they worked.  some were more complicated than others, but they worked and that is the key point.   So thanks again for your help. 

Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread Anthony Jay
Sarah, I am aware of Floyd's impact on people and am not trying to be insensitive; but this is a GIS related form, not a place to chat about whatever is on your mind. By the way, I am neither self centered or stupid. And my name is Anthony!! - Original Message - From: "Sarah W Myers"

RE: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Bob Garrett
I don't think dmscnvrt.mbx will let you specify a "-" as a seperator. Bob Garrett Senior Developmental Engineer American Telecasting, Inc. 5575 Tech Center Dr. Suite 300 Colorado Springs, CO 80919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not using dmscnvrt.mbx (locat

Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread Bill Thoen
Andy wrote: > > actually, would you believe that England suffers from more tornadoes per > area unit than the states. Aw, no way... that sounds like Statistics talking! Where do you go to see english twisters? - Bill Thoen -

Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread "Sarah W Myers"
>From California I thank you for the reminder of our many blessings. Thanks, Sarah Myers Preventive Care Operations Blue Cross of California [EMAIL PROTECTED] --( Forwarded letter 1 follows ) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:23:03 -0500 To: Foro.de.Consultas.MapInfo

MI: MB Zoom To function...

1999-09-15 Thread Jason Adam
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

Re: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Miguel Iturralde
Ryan,   In Excel, you can use the functions RIGHT, MID, and LEFT to extract characters from a cell.  For example, if you have 40-30-41 in A1, enter the formula =MID(A1,4,2) in cell B1, and hit enter.  The result shown in B1 will be 30.  To copy the formula, drag by the small square on the l

Re: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Emmanuel Paré
Why not using dmscnvrt.mbx (located in the tools directory)  But the limit of coordinates is 32 000 (integer limits)   Emmanuel ParéGIS/Programming for DBX Geomaticsemail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.linux-mandrake.com -Original Message-From: Ryan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

MI Re: MSAccess DDEinitiate thru MapBasic Window!

1999-09-15 Thread ISSA, OTHMAN
Hi folks, I hope you can help me with this problem. After opening an ODBC Access Table manually inside MapInfo, I opened the MapBasic Window and started inputting some code for testing purposes. The ODBC is already mappable and a ODBC catalogue is already created. The following is the code that

Re: MI Seeking hurricane data

1999-09-15 Thread Steve Wallace
At 10:43 AM 09/15/1999 -0700, David Herzog wrote: >Can anyone point me to hurricane data in MapInfo format on the Web? Thanks >much. If it is historical data you desire, check the Free Data Center at http://www.directionsmag.com . Atlantic & Pacific hurricane tracks back to 1870's. Steve Wal

RE: MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Scott Elliott
Ryan,   If your text is in cell A1, the Excel formula for:   degrees is = LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-1)   minutes is = MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,FIND("-",A1,FIND("-",A1)+1)-FIND("-",A1)-1)   seconds

Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread Anthony Jay
enough already about Floyd - Original Message - From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Quan, Sheila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'Cathy Galgano' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; mapinfo-l (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: September 15, 1999 7:47 AM Subject: Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State > actually, woul

RE: MI Seeking hurricane data

1999-09-15 Thread Scott Elliott
David, Our Contributing Editor Steve Wallace has an excellent article called "Make Your Own Hurricane Maps" which speaks directly to this point at http://www.directionsmag.com/features.asp?FeatureID=17 Regards, Scott Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions & MP2K Magazines http://www.directionsma

MI Seeking hurricane data

1999-09-15 Thread David Herzog
Can anyone point me to hurricane data in MapInfo format on the Web? Thanks much. David Herzog mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providence Journal investigative team Computer-assisted reporting specialist (401) 277-7493 --

MI SUM: What to do before we format our PC

1999-09-15 Thread Aditya
I have compiled all the answers I received and they are as follows (a few are modified by me): 1) Backup the projects or work you want to save off local drives. 2) All the local drive mapping if the PC is on a network! 3) Write down the Printer specifications / setting if y

MI Microsoft getting more GIS holdings!

1999-09-15 Thread glenn
Looks like they're at it again! Here's some more info: Today's featured stories at SpatialNews can be found at http://www.spatialnews.com/dailynews/today/index.html ~ RAINBANDS OF FLOYD AFFECTING THE CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST... ~ Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Visio as Part of Mission To Increase Pro

MI - MB Problem

1999-09-15 Thread Aditya
Dear List members, I have a problem regarding tables, Using MapBasic, I query a big table with one empty row, in which I want to put the sum of that particular query. As I am using group by command in query, the table is readonly. I do not want to commit the table as user may do many query

Re: MI Information about South America

1999-09-15 Thread Alan Pritchard
We have point data for these countries, together with demographic data and postcodes See statistics on our web site Brazil: around 52,000 places Venezuela: around 15K Argentina: around 10K Uruguay: around 1,400 Columbia: around 24K These are number for places with lat/long. Not all have populatio

MI Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees?

1999-09-15 Thread Ryan Richter
I was given an excel spreadsheet that contained around 300 co-ordinates that I need to plot in MapInfo...Problem,  the co-ordinates for both latitude and longitude are all in the same cell, separated by a "-".  eg.  40-30-41, and the cell format is just general.  If anyone has a quick soluti

MI Thanks

1999-09-15 Thread Russell Lawley
A quick note to say thanks to everyone who suggested work arounds for the Mapinfo to illustrator problems. As many of you had guessed, I'd been down the ghostscript route (I have no budget for AI plugins), but in the end I resolved my problem by going for the good old save window as routine (and I

MI Automation Error

1999-09-15 Thread 喵喵
Hello,   I'm writing a ProServer application using Visual Basic language. There is a serious problem that makes my system unstable. I found that a mapinfo instance usually took almost 99% of my cpu resource and couldn't be released. The corresponding VB error message is "automation error".

Re: MI Info about South America

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Branagan
I recall visiting a company in Caracas that should have alot of that and they work in MI! Do you want me to make a call? >HI there folks, I am lookin desperatley for some information about Brazil, >Venezula, Argentina, Urguay and Columbia. Some kinds of stuff i'm looking >for are topo maps, vec

MI 5.5 creating custom symbol prob.

1999-09-15 Thread Christy Noonan
Hello Listers, Question: Is anyone having problems creating a custom symbol in MapInfo 5.5? I haven't been able to get this feature to work since I upgraded to 5.5. It worked fine with 5.0. This is what I've tried... the help says to put the bitmap in the Mi95/CUSTSYMB directory. Well my

MI new user

1999-09-15 Thread Carolyn Davies
I'm a novice user of Map-Info and have come across a problem (probably very simple) when trying to create a new table. Previously, I was able to do this, but on the last few occasions, when I have been trying to save a 'Query' table which I have produced from 'SQL Select' or 'Select', the foll

Re: MI Counting Blessings

1999-09-15 Thread Cassandra Dunstall
All communication lines in the Bahamas are down, so outside knows how hard the Bahamas was hit. Hopefully some news about them will become available today. Everyone on the eastern seaboard of the US take care. Cassandra -- To un

Re: MI Hello from "FLoyd" State

1999-09-15 Thread Andy
actually, would you believe that England suffers from more tornadoes per area unit than the states. (no, i don't believe it either but apparently its correct) and when we do get them they are not 170 miles long. best wishes to all in floyd's path - Original Message - From: Quan, Sheila <[

MI Info about South America

1999-09-15 Thread Shannnon Skistad
HI there folks, I am lookin desperatley for some information about Brazil, Venezula, Argentina, Urguay and Columbia. Some kinds of stuff i'm looking for are topo maps, vector files with state boards, demographics and some digital terrain models. Does anyone have an idea? -- Sent through Global M

RE: MI Workspaces E-mailing

1999-09-15 Thread Robert Crossley
The error is in the seamless table. Try opening the seamless table without the workspace and it would probably not work either. You need to recreate your seamless table, but with the option of storing paths disabled. you also have to open your workspace and open all tables interactively in t