RE: MI Resignation of OS Director General?

Seems it's true, check out the OS web site.. Change of leadership at Ordnance Survey David Willey has taken over chief executive responsibilities at Ordnance Survey following the decision of Dr Geoff Robinson to step down. David Willey said "Geoff Robinson has made a tremen

RE: MI FW: Select "offset" information

Hi Rhonda, If I understand you, then this is the sort of thing you are trying to achieve... 0) Create Points for both tables, "BUFFER" those in PROBABLES to the required radius/distance (1320' or whatever). 1) Use a For..Next Loop and the Fetch Rec nLoop from TABLE command to loop through the

MI UK coastal map

Dear All, I am a biologist working with a dataset of marine turtle records. I am analysing the data spatially using MapInfo 4 and I'm looking for a simple, coastal outline map of the UK and Eire - of greater resolution than the world map which comes with MapInfo. (I would particularly like to f

Re: MI MIDB_BLOB_SIZE

Jose, Could you answer a few questions? What database software are you connecting to? What version? Does it contain st_spatial objects, as in Spatialware/Oracle 8i? What version of MapInfo? Thanks, Sam Kome Sage Software, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sagesoft.com -Original Message- Fr

Re: MI Manifold GIS System

I am just starting to evaluate Manifold 4.5 and would not pretend to be able to review it. Of course I have some opinions: * The number of apparent functions is impressive, including ability to access numerous data formats/sources. * The extensability through VBscript, Javascript is impressive,

Re: MI Manifold GIS System

I have never tried Manifold. I would like to, based on what I have seen on their web site and comments from some users. What impresses me most about them is how responsive they are. A friend of mine at the National Hurricane Center is about to quit using MapInfo Pro because MI still has not im

MI GIS and OLAP

Hi, everybody. Could anyone give me some tips on the best place to look for information about GIS and OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) Regards, Zbigniew Sobolewski Ingénierie Bell Mobilité 200, boul. Bouchard, 5e Étage Dorval, Québec, Canada H9S 5X5 Tél:(514) 685-0041 ext. 3520 Cell: (5

RE: MI Manifold GIS System

Without saying ANYTHING about Manifold (or any other products, for that matter) I would say that this is an obvious starting point for PR reasons alone Peter Ketting GIS Consultant Steve Wallace [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] skrev 28. oktober 1999 15:41: > > You may also have seen their post on

MI SUM Erase Inside Question

Hi List, Thanks to Tim Nuteson, Steve Wallace, George Smith, Yannick Leduc, Jason Adams, Scott Barling, Jose Louis Armero, and Chris Martin for their responses. QUESTION: In the MI help this is what it says... straight from the online help. Can anyone shed some light on #3? Erasing An Obje

MI Cutting a line and adding nodes

Hi Listers, How do you cut a line (put a break in it) then put nodes on the ends you just cut? I want to be able to put a break in the line, add nodes to the ends and snap those new nodes back to other nodes in a different polygon. I know about the Show nodes button, and the add nodes b

Re: MI Resignation of OS Director General?

So why after only a year, did he resign? I hear more and more about the tension within the governemnt and with GIS people in the UK over the issues of "crown copyright" and "full cost recovery" for GIS data, and I wonder if this parting is more evidence of the battle. Nobody makes a "tremendous co

Re: MI Cutting a line and adding nodes

Christy, You wrote: > Hi Listers, > How do you cut a line (put a break in it) then put nodes on the ends you > just cut? > > I want to be able to put a break in the line, add nodes to the ends and > snap those new nodes back to other nodes in a different polygon. The only way in MapInfo for

MI 5.0 and PDF Writer

We are trying to output from MapInfo 5.0 through PDF Writer 3.0. I select PDF Writer in the Print menu, and send the output, but MapInfo answers back "Cannot print". Other applications (WordPad, Word, ...) write .PDF's without problem. Any ideas? _

Re: MI MapBasic App PLEASE DO NOT SEND US E-mail THANK YOU

- Original Message - From: Jon Spinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Mapinfo User List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:24 PM Subject: MI MapBasic App >Hello all: > >Does anyone know of a MapBasic utility, app, or batch that will allow me to >automatically create bmp ima

Re: MI ANNOUNCE: Freeware MapInfo plugins for GenesisII

- Original Message - From: Kevin Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 12:46 PM Subject: MI ANNOUNCE: Freeware MapInfo plugins for GenesisII >8 June 1999 > >Geomantics releases freeware MapInfo and ArcView interfaces for GenesisII >Profession

RE: MI 5.0 and PDF Writer

Claude, Do not use PDF Writer. It has problems in general and Mapinfo problems specifically. The file size is also very large. Use Distiller. Print your map to a file using an Adobe Postscript driver (the Tektronix 350 driver works great, but you will ant a different one if you are doing large f

Re: MI: MI Raster registration.

Thanks to George Smith for the answer. It would be nice if external tool solutions were documented in the MI help file. georeg.mbx that comes as a Tool with MI converts geotiffs >Is there any way that you can get any raster file into MapInfo in real >world coordinates without going through a

Re: MI topologyy errors

Jose, I think you are running on Windows NT, and are you using Oracle? At any rate, Spatialware 4.0 has internal cleaning functions as follows: Difference, Symmetric Difference, Convex Hull, Clean, Relate, Distance, Erase, Erase Out, Split, Cross. Beyond that, or if you have an older version, y

MI Server_Connnect() Help!

I'm struggling with this one. To the extent that I'm now probably missing really obvious things.. this is a cry for help!   I've no problem uploading MI tables to MS Access and setting up the live ODBC link using the Open DBMS menu item, dialogs etc. What I'd like to do is write some MB code

RE: MI Manifold GIS System

I sent the following message to Manifold, in regards to their comparision to Mapinfo. Map Formats: Although Mapinfo doesn't import that many formats, there are various freeware/shareware products that will convert to Mapinfo MID/MIF format. (ie. Tiger, USGS, DEM, etc) (As well as verious comer

Re: MI 5.0 and PDF Writer

do this: file, save window as, choose metafile open in word, a graphics program like ACDC, or powerpoint and print PDF -Original Message- From: Lavoie, Claude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 1:46 PM Subject: MI 5.0 and PDF W

MI Puerto Rico Demographic Data

Hi All Does anyone have a source for 1999 vintage demographic data for Puerto Rico? I have no problem finding boundaries and 1990 census data but I need something later. Thanks in advance. James James L Marlow Director, Geographic Information Systems Channel Marketing Corporation 15032 Beltwa

MI MapInfo Defense News: GeoTrans?

Hello DTCC 4.1 Users, In an effort to better serve our customers, NIMA has decided to discontinue support to the MADTRAN and DT&CC4.1 datum transformation and coordinate conversion applications. In their place, we will begin offering GEOTRANS. GEOTRANS, a stand-alone application jointly owned b

MI New Computer - No Tools on install

New Computer but no Tools in tool manager on install. Using MI 5.5 on Win NT SP4. Any ideas besides installing each individually. ,,, /'^'\ ( o o ) ---oOOO--(_)--OOOo-- Mic

MI distance from point to polygon boundary

I'm interested in determining the shortest distance from each point in a table of points to the boundary of a polygon which surrounds them, in a different layer. (These are hundreds of points representing locations of schools in the greater Los Angeles are and I need to know the distance from

MI spss link for MapInfo 4.1

Does anyone have the mbx file for the spss link for MapInfo 4.1? Peter Robinson Research Associate Urban Frontiers Program UWS - Macarthur PO Box 555 Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia Ph: +61 2 4620 3499 Fx: +61 2 4620 3447 Mb: 0414 470 929 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Urban Frontiers Web Si

MI Network Analysis

Does anyone know whether there is any shareware network analysis add-ons for MapInfo? Also is there an easy way to convert street polygons to a lines for network analysis. I apologise if this is simple, but I am new to MapInfo! Peter Robinson Research Associate Urban Frontiers Program UWS - Mac

MI Help on Labels

G'day everyone, I'm having problems producing text labels for layers in MapInfo v5.5. Is there a way to convert an entire layers labels into text objects without having the whole layer in view? When I do this using the MapBasic applications Labeler or AutoLabeler I get text which is huge. I wa

MI MapX: Which Layers can be used with the Find tool

Hi there,   I'm trying to assess each layer in a Map to see if it has an index, all indexed layers would go into a combobox so the user can select which layer they would like to make a search against. Once the layer has been picked the indexed columns of that layer fill up another combobox fo

MI: MI Raster registration.

Is there any way that you can get any raster file into MapInfo in real world coordinates without going through a laborious registration process or manually creating the tab file? How about any programs that convert GeoTiff headers into MI headers? Will sum.

MI SUM topologyy errors

Thanks to all who responded about my topology inquiry. I really appreciate all of your responses. I received several suggestions such as MapLogix, "FixGapsAndOverlaps", SpatialWare's Topology Manager, and several built in cleaning functions in the newer SpatialWare versions. Thanks again for yo

MI Guam Data

Hello, I am looking for street, census, zip data in MI format for Guam. Any demographic data in fact. Freebies desired. Willing to purchase if price is reasonable. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMA

re: MI: MI Raster registration.

We've just released version 4.0 of the Geographic Transformer. The Geographic Transformer will automatically convert the coordinate system and/or reference point parameters contained within GeoTIFF headers into native Mapinfo TAB files for use directly within MapInfo. You can evaluate the Tra

MI Data Recovery

You every have one of those days, when you've been at it too long and OPPS, you just deleted a bunch of data you didn't mean to thereby messing up many long hours of work? Well ANSSI your Recover.mbx just saved my butt at the end of a long day! Listers, if you've ever had this happen to you (Lik

MI Digitizer incompatability problems

Hi Everyone, We're trying to use a Calcomp Digitizer Drawingboard 3 (12"x18") with MI version 5.5 under windows 98. This digitizer board has been previously used successfully with Win 95 and MI 4.1. Our IT dude has checked to make sure that the digitizer works under Win98 and it does, however,

MI Hierarchical menu

Dear Lister, I am kinda frustrated to find how to create hierarchical menu trough mbx. Anytime i read the help menu, i always can't get the meaning of"The menu file should be from existing menu". I don't understand where to create the "existing menu" since we only perm