RE: MI Oracle 8i and MapInfo NEWS: Step One

1999-10-11 Thread antondeg
What are the impications of reading Oracle 8i with MapX. Do you need to create the .TAB files first with MapInfo, or can you read directly? Can ProViewer read Oracle 8i? How difficult is it to set up a test enviroment without spending lot of $$$ Yours Anton -Original Message- From: [

RE: MI ODBC

1999-10-11 Thread antondeg
Bring in the Access as an ODBC table, then the Spatial as a MapInfo table. Do a SQL join between the two tables. Then save that as a new table. Next time open the saved table. This will keep the join. Be warned unless you have a unique key in the Access table you will not get read write. You

RE: MI CellVect?

1999-10-11 Thread Teguh Yulianto
Dear Stefan and List, Thank you for your code, finally i able to write program with reference of your code. I have a new problem that i can't find in help menu of mapbasic. Do you know how to make 'hot key' to call sub program? Thank's again > -- > From: Stefan Majtan[SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: MI Pricing

1999-10-11 Thread Neil Havermale
Price for Professional is $1295 list. If you were to call 1-800-fastmap you could order next day delivery if you are across their desk by say 2:00pm. You might also want to call 800-237-4182 for a possibly better deal. If you are logging on then you must have entered the Test Room where you can d

MI Pricing

1999-10-11 Thread Darryl Oliver
I just spent the last half hour on MapInfo's web site trying to find a price list. Are the prices so high that they are reluctant to post them on their web site? Based on some of the posts I saw on MAPINFO-L, I'm guessing entry price (new, not an upgrade) will be around $2000. Can anybody tell me

MI: Unviersal Translator Problems

1999-10-11 Thread Jimmy W. Hensarling
I recently upgrade from MapInfo 4.5 to 5.5 and ever since the upgrade, I have not been able to convert AV Shape files. The UT starts translating and abruptly ends with an error. Has anyone else run into this problem or know of a solution? TIA ---

RE: MI Layout convertion

1999-10-11 Thread Ethan Hohneck
Hi, I have recently been using the save as option for some final layouts. I found that the bmp and tiff files did not save that well when inserted into documents. My solution was to save them as Windows Metafile (.wmf). The quality was excellent. Hope this can help in some way. Ethan -

MI Re:

1999-10-11 Thread Steve Wallace
At 03:01 PM 10/11/1999 -0500, Jason Dettman wrote: >Does anyone know of a format translator that will translate a MapInfo file >(MID\MIF or .TAB) to TIGER format? Check with Ken Tozier at International Computer Works. http://www.icwmaps.com/ Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Maga

Re: MI Layout convertion & SUM: Exporting to MAC as Postscript

1999-10-11 Thread Russell Mincher
You first need to ascertain what files your publisher can handle. I obtained our local publishers W98 printer drivers and routinely print to file (PRN files) for output directly on their machine. I also had a query a month ago about Exporting to Photoshop on a MAC which provided alternative sol

MI Oracle 8i and MapInfo NEWS: Step One

1999-10-11 Thread Neil Havermale
Thanks Eric - If you are ready I will bet there are heap of us out here willing to go the distance as well. No, I don't want to build a Internet system today. I am interested in how to use 8i and MapInfo on my desk or in our company's LAN (like a mapping center or department). Therefore, a sor

MapX or MI-Pro in Pipeline Gas/Oil Management

1999-10-11 Thread G E O I N F O
Hello Fellow Mappers,   I am interested in having information of the usage of MapX and MI-Pro in managing Pipeline Gas or Oil. Please kindly direct me to any web-site or product package that you might know - so I can explore more detail. I need to present a conceptual idea of how GIS could pl

Re: SV: MI Oracle 8i and MapInfo technologies

1999-10-11 Thread Eric_Blasenheim
I would be happy to provide you and others on MapInfo-l with any information I can regarding Oracle 8i spatial and MapInfo's integration with it. Let me know what information you are seeking. Eric Blasenheim Software Architect MapInfo Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI Default fonts?

1999-10-11 Thread Eric_Blasenheim
There are a couple of questions here and I will do my best to answer them. The font defaults in Professional are stored in our resources (MIRES???.DLL) The system character set gives us information that we use to index into a list of locale appropriate default fonts. Also our localizers, who t

MapX or MI-Pro in Pipeline Gas/Oil Management

1999-10-11 Thread G E O I N F O
Hello Fellow Mappers,   I am interested in having information of the usage of MapX and MI-Pro in managing Pipeline Gas or Oil. Please direct me to any web-site or product package that you might know - so I can explore more detail.   Thanking you in advance - as always.   Gatot PurnomoPT. GEON

RE: MI - MapX on Visual Foxpro.

1999-10-11 Thread Jeff James
We have used it extensively -- and successfully -- with VB. We recently got into a project with a client who had an existing application in Visual FoxPro, and they wanted to incorporate MapX into it. I don't know exactly where the problems were, but they couldn't quite get it to work. We had to

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1999-10-11 Thread Jason Dettman
Does anyone know of a format translator that will translate a MapInfo file (MID\MIF or .TAB) to TIGER format? Jason Dettman GIS Projects Technician VistaInfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [E

RE: MI Requesting Georgia elevation, mineral and rock deposit data

1999-10-11 Thread Lepage, Mike L (Mike)** CTR **
if you go to the usgs web site you can download all the topographic data files. These dem files will load into mapinfo and give you the terrain elevation. You can load the 3 arc second data straight into mapinfo 5.5, if you want the better resolution 24k dem files you need to have vertical mappe

Re: MI MapInfo-L Clearinghouse and File Archive Site????

1999-10-11 Thread Bill Thoen
It's http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/, and you click on "Shareware/Freeware" on the left. The actual files (if you don't like frames) are http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/recent.htm Recent files http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/idx.htm Index by subject http://www.directionsmag.

MI Requesting Georgia elevation, mineral and rock deposit data

1999-10-11 Thread Michael Fredericks
I recently moved to the Atlanta Georgia area and have gotten into gold panning in North Georgia. I want to use mapinfo to help me locate gold deposit areas. I have the street network files for the state of Georgia. I know there are two belts where gold has been found that run from the NE to SW a

MI Networks

1999-10-11 Thread Marjorie Roswell
Consider getting Manifold for this application: www.manifold.net On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, zakaria ahmad wrote: > Im final year student, involve on analysis network for > finding shortest routes between two point or interest > by using Djkstra or other algoritma. MapInfo didn't > have network analys

MI Layout convertion

1999-10-11 Thread Yasir Mohieldeen
Dear all, I want to convert my final Layout into Postscript or any other commonly used file format (Tiff, JPEG...) so that I can take it to the publisher. How can I do that? I tried to SAVE WINDOW AS in the FILE menu, but the resolution is too coarse. I tried screen capture but still it tak

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1999-10-11 Thread Ewa Plachta
subscribe MapInfo-L Ewa Plachta BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Plachta;Ewa FN:Ewa Plachta ORG:London Borough of Hackney;Estate Management and Development TITLE:GIS Officer TEL;WORK;VOICE:0181 356 2037 TEL;WORK;FAX:0181 356 2104 ADR;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:;Strategy and Commissioning Team;Chr

Re: MI Address Gazetteer matching software - UK BS7666?

1999-10-11 Thread Spencer Chainey
Dear Jon and All, People who do this are Infoshare LTD: http://www.infoshare.ltd.uk Infoshare Limited Parman House 30-36 Fife Road Kingston Upon Thames Surrey KT1 1SY Phone:020 8541 0111 We use them and their services for exactly this. Adrian McKeon their Director has recently contribute

MI Converting labels to text objects

1999-10-11 Thread Bjorn Veltman
Hi all, I have a map with some 4000 labels which I try to convert to text objects. I've tried different ways but the problem is I never get all of the labels converted. Would anybody have a suggestion what the reason for this can be? Bjorn --

MI MapInfo-L Clearinghouse and File Archive Site????

1999-10-11 Thread Tony Kelava
Can anyone tell me where the most up-to-date web address is located for MapInfo-L Clearinghouse and File Archives Site is? Thanks Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MA

RE: MI how to convert from string to integer

1999-10-11 Thread Dave Langley
Teguh, Just use the MapBasic Val() function. Regards, Dave Dave Langley Mapping Applications Consultant Dataview Solutions Ltd London UK Telephone: +44 (0)1635 581355 Mobile:+44 (0)973 797769 Business email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dataview Home Page: w

RE: MI automatic assigning of different symbols

1999-10-11 Thread Crompton, Mark
Hi Frank, I have got to approximately 256 colours automatically but even then they start to look the same. As I am sure that you know Mapinfo colours consist of Red/Green/Blue combinations. Red can be 0-255, Green 0-255 Blue 0-255. Using the BCD method (Binary Coded Decimal) method allowing ea

RE: MB Q: str$(coords) vs. MIF conversion

1999-10-11 Thread Crompton, Mark
Hi John, Check out the Mapbasic Help on FORMAT. If you wish to control the number of decimal places use this not Str$(). Str$() rounds decimal numbers without user control. Format$(-12345.6789, "#.###E+00") ' returns "-1.235

RE: MI MB in 5.5 processor slows down

1999-10-11 Thread Crompton, Mark
Hi John/Steve, If you do not need all the previously selected tables DELETE them. If you look at the list of queries opened after multiple selection you may find yourself in the 100's or even 1000's. Close the ones that you do not want (or save them for later). I use this simple code below to p

RE: MI Silly Question

1999-10-11 Thread Crompton, Mark
Hi Yvonne, Providing that you do have 1 column in each table that is unique it can be done using either: 1) Table->Update Column (and add the replacement column, save the table, and throw away the corrupt column). 2) Use a Query where Table1.Col2 = Table2.Col2 or similar (does that make