RE: MI Create points

1999-09-23 Thread Bill Donaldson
Litea, If you can't create the points correctly using MapInfo on its own, then you obviously would not have much success using Discover, as Discover is an add-on to MapInfo (written by Encom Technology) that still uses the basic functionality of MapInfo. Possible causes are: 1) You are using

MI Admiralty charts into MapInfo

1999-09-23 Thread David Baker
We presently use an in-house vessel tracking program (MapInfo/MapBasic) for an oil company client. The oil company is interested in having proper hydrographic charts as produced by the British Admiralty ( presumably some department in the USA - Navy/Coast Guard?) as backgrounds. Does anyone

Vedr: MI Can not delete selected records with MapBasic

1999-09-23 Thread pel
Hi Michael Try using a subselect in your SQL, that will work Select * from PointTab where obj within any (Select obj from RegionTab) into Results Peter Laulund National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark Michael Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 22-09-99 14:43:21 Til:"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"

MI acm gis 99

1999-09-23 Thread Robert Laurini
ACM GIS'99 7th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Kansas City, USA - November 5th-6th, 1999 For details see : http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~cmbm/acmgis99/ For CIKM see : http://www.csee.umbc.edu/cikm/1999/ For registration see:

MI Area calculations

1999-09-23 Thread Ian Macey
I have been using the spherical algorithm to calculate the area of field polygons since upgrading to MI Pro 5.5. Is this the correct way for use with Ordnance Survey data which is tied in to the British National Grid? The reason that I ask is because I have been sent and Arc View shape file

SV: MI guilty ( another spam anecdote delete me)

1999-09-23 Thread BVT
It gives the phrase "animation layer" a hole new meaning :) Bo Thomsen GeoConsult I/S Denmark -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt:23. september 1999 11:06 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: MI guilty (

MI Set Layer Label Angle

1999-09-23 Thread lct
Hi lists The label provided by Mapinfo is horizontal,but I want it to be vertical,I use the 'Set Layer Label Object I Angle 270' statement to issue it in a cycle,but the screen flashs hard when performing this statement. Is there any way else to issue this function! Thanks! Ctlu

MI vs ArcINFO

1999-09-23 Thread Mitchell, Will
Hello list, Some recent discussions about the new ArcINFO 8 and what is and isn't a 'real' GIS have led me back to an old question. I thought I'd pose it here and see what happens: Q: What can ArcINFO do that MapInfo can not? I haven't used AI in several years, and I've seen so many tools,

Re: MI MapInfo to pdf

1999-09-23 Thread Steve Wallace
At 06:59 PM 09/22/1999 -0400, dward wrote: (1) Be careful as the latest version of Adobe Acrobat 4.x, limits files to 11" x 17" maximum sixe. Previous versions allowed for larger C, D and E-size plots. Well, that may be the largest pre-set output size, but you can choose "custom" and make

SV: MI guilty ( another spam anecdote delete me)

1999-09-23 Thread Gis
I wonder what MapInfo Co. would think, if we then conclude that "The animation layer is full of bugs"? ;-) Peter Peter Ketting, GIS consultant Ministry for Environment and Energy Denmark It gives the phrase "animation layer" a hole new meaning :) Bo

RE: MI MapInfo to pdf

1999-09-23 Thread Lepage, Mike L (Mike)** CTR **
If I want to get a pdf file from mapInfo what do I do? I have the adobe acrobat reader, but don't see how to make the pdf file. thanks, Mike Lepage, B.Sc. Senior RF Engineer Wireless Professional Services Lucent Technologies 314-891-2130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

MI RotateMapWindow.MBX

1999-09-23 Thread Antoine Gilbert
Hi... long time no see... I need the source code of RotateMapWindow.MBX if possible, or, some hints about the mbx. regards ___ ||//Antoine Gilbert|| // [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| //#ICQ 9737371|| \\|| \\

MI UTM to Lat\Lon translator

1999-09-23 Thread Jason Dettman
Does anyone know of a translator\tool\wizard\magic brew that will take a flat file with no geographics, but contains UTM coordinates (with 20 different zones) and translate them into lat\lon. I realize we can do a table\create points 20 separate times, once for each zone, but that's not ideal

MI MapInfoNearMe

1999-09-23 Thread Scott Elliott
List participants, Those of you who follow MapInfo's business direction will be interested in the implications of the 32 new internet domain names that were registered by the company yesterday. carsnearme.com, doctorsnearme.com ... even romancenearme.com! We post the full list at:

RE: MI Spammer redux

1999-09-23 Thread PERRY Chris
OK, I read message and message about this spate of spam. And you know what, it's heaps more than the original spam. We're now part of the problem (including me). So my view is next time, hit the delete key and get on with life. Let's all make a pledge to stop email after email when the spam

MI Direct-Internet...leads.. your.unreached.client

1999-09-23 Thread kiseciv4
There are millions Internet users. Thousands are joining then booming internet market each day. Have you missed your leads? IS YOUR MARKET BEING REACHED OR LIMITED BY: * Geographic boundaries or location * lack of NEW leads * lack of NEW exposure DO YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A VIABLE

RE: MI Mapinfo 5.0 Help file

1999-09-23 Thread Humphrey, Ben
This is an interesting subject, as I was once vicitmized through the purchase of a semi-pirated version of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe stood behind me all the way which was very kind of them and sent me a free upgrade to the software I thought I had been purchasing. Of course this wasn't a copy I

RE: MI MapInfo to pdf

1999-09-23 Thread Brad Mathews
Declan and all, One other very important thing about converting layouts to PDFs. Do not use PDFWriter. Print to file using a color postscript driver (not the distiller PPD) and then use Distiller to convert it to PDF. The resulting file will look better and be smaller. You may have to experiment

Re: MI guilty ( another spam anecdote delete me)

1999-09-23 Thread Bill Thoen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the obvious thing to do would be to map their moving pattern in realtime using MI and GPS (though the cockroaches would have to be HUGE to carry the proper equipment...) Well, why not glue a platoon of them to the bottom of a receiver and get them to march in

MI Old Hawaiian Datum

1999-09-23 Thread Cliff Mugnier - University of New Orleans
Will, Old Hawaiian Datum origin is at Oahu West Base where: Latitude = 21* 18' 13.89" North, Longitude = 157* 50' 55.79" West of Greenwich The reference azimuth to Oahu East Base is 291* 29' 36.0 (from South) and the ellipsoid of reference is the Clarke 1866. The Old Hawaiian Datum is based on

MI Unable to Save Workspace

1999-09-23 Thread Tim . Nuteson
We're having a problem here that hopefully someone out there is familiar with. We're testing Mapinfo on a brand new Dell GX1 P3 500 and have been getting the error "Unable to save workspace". This never occurs when saving to the local hard drive, but only when saving to (or attempting to save

Measuring Angles in MI

1999-09-23 Thread Horner, Amanda
Is there a way to measure the angle between two lines in MI, or do I need a tricky little .MBX to do the job?. In this case I want to determine the angle between where a costean is and where it should be. If this is not possible I can always dump the linework into a drafting package like

MI Computers in Mining, Exploration and the Environment (CIMEE3)

1999-09-23 Thread Andrew Waltho
COMPUTERS IN MINING, EXPLORATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT (CIMEE3) Brisbane Australia 15 October 1999. Organised by the Australian Institute of Geoscientists The theme of the third seminar in this popular series will be "Data Management and Integration from the field to the corporate database" with

MI Re: new region where two regions overlap

1999-09-23 Thread SOLOMON ISLANDS POPULATION CENSUS
Dear all I have a health zone layer and a clinic buffer layer (10km circles) Some of the buffers extend into the sea, in these cases I just want the area on land i.e. the overlap between the buffer and the health zone. I can do it manually, i.e. trace round the desired area with autotrace,