MI Tweaking the registry

2000-01-27 Thread Alex Eshed
Greetings, Listers. Andy Dressel replied to a query as follows: You can turn off the border created during Save Window As with a registry setting: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MapInfo\MapInfo\Common\ExportBorder 0 indicates no border; non-zero indicates that a border should be exported.

Re: MI SpatialWare and AutoCad

2000-01-27 Thread Patrick Mollbrink
Hi Alex Yes, such a thing exists. Our team at Spatial Technology AB here in Sweden have developed such tool and we have numerous enterprise customers who use it. The tool is called "SpatialWare Link for AutoCad" and is provided in two versions. The first one is read only and the second one

MI: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'

2000-01-27 Thread Steven . Ward
This is a problem I'm wondering if anyone else has come across: I have created a number of layouts in workspaces on A4 paper but in landscape (short and wide) format. obviously i have saved the workspace with this work in it. However when i come to reopen the workspace later, the layout has

Re: MI Tweaking the registry

2000-01-27 Thread Marjorie Roswell
Well, I typed in "Windows Registry" at amazon.com, and found a number of resources, including this one: Windows 98 Registry Little Black Book by Greg Holden There are 31 other books listed there. BTW, even though I like amazon.com very much, I'm boycotting them because of their patent

AW: MI Changing Symbols Position

2000-01-27 Thread Andreas Mahn
Ethan, here's a trick I had already suggested a while ago: The solution may be labelling with a symbol: Make your symbols invisible with the override style option (MapLayercontrolDisplay), NOT by unchecking the visible option in the layer control! Label with an expression, consisting of a

MI Grid reference conversion

2000-01-27 Thread Nicholas Button
I am trying to convert single column grid references (sy6789) to x y coordinates (quickly)so as to create points within MI. Is there a program which reads this format as in D Map or other converter. Can anyone help. __ Get Your Private, Free

Re: MI Tweaking the registry

2000-01-27 Thread EdwardsRG
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MI Re: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'

2000-01-27 Thread David Reid
Steven, I may stand corrected, but I beleive your page orientation problem is by design. I'm only speaking for the Windows family here . . . whichever page orientation you have set in your printer defaults is the one that keeps coming back even though you've saved a different format in a

MI: Korean Digital Maps

2000-01-27 Thread Kenneth Laas
Hello Listeners! I was wondering if anyone out there is familiar with a source for Korean Digital Maps. I have searched the net, and found a little info, but a language barrier is keeping me from successfully finding a "good" source. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in

Re: MI Tweaking the registry

2000-01-27 Thread Steve Wallace
At 07:40 AM 01/27/2000 -0500, Marjorie Roswell wrote: Well, I typed in "Windows Registry" at amazon.com, and found a number of resources, including this one: From time to time we see that a solution to a problem lies in "tweaking" the registry. Is the following documented anywhere? A.

Re: MI Re: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'

2000-01-27 Thread Steve Wallace
Well, it really depends on what version of MapInfo Pro you are using. Only recently did MapInfo add printer settings to what is saved in the workspace, and only in the latest patch did many of the problems get resolved. If you are using a version before v5, there are no means to store your

Object Layering in MI .TAB file - Summary of responses

2000-01-27 Thread Peter Gozdyra
Hello All, Here is the summary of responses to my question about the layering of objects within the TAB file. Thank you for all the tips. --- Original question: Does anyone know how MI organizes polygons within a table (the layering). Is there a MI or MB way of controling the

MI Legend backgrounds

2000-01-27 Thread David Eagle
Help Listers! Situation: Using aerial photography as a backdrop I have used some 'White' cosmetic items e.g. White dasked polyline to show a disused railway line. Problem: However, when I generate a Legend you can't see the cosmetic item because the background of the legend is white too! I

MI Township/Range

2000-01-27 Thread McMahan, Jason
I'm looking for Township and Range data for Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. Nice, ready-to-go, MapInfo layers are preferred, but I'm willing to put some effort into it if necessary. Cheap is good. Free is better. Thanks, Jason Jason McMahan Director of Cartography Resource Data

Re: Batch Export to MID/MIF

2000-01-27 Thread Alain OLIVIER
Hello, You can find the program BatchTools (containing MIFexp which exports multiple MapInfo tables into mif/mid files) there: http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/search.asp Regards, Alain OLIVIER At 9:49 -0600 26/01/00, Jim Strickland wrote: I am looking for a MapBasic program that will let

MI line measuring tool

2000-01-27 Thread Matthews, Mark
Is anyone aware of a tool that would allow a user to select a line or polyline and specify a length as a percentage of the total line length and have MapInfo place a symbol at that point. For example.if I had a polyline that was 25 miles long and wanted to know where a distance was 37% from

RE: MI Township/Range

2000-01-27 Thread Mitchell, Will
For Montana data, a fantastic resource is the state library NRIS... http://nris.state.mt.us/gis/gis.html We recently purchased the whole state PLSS from them in one nice file on CD for about $50. You can also download pieces and patch them together yourself for free, but we wanted the whole

MI Oracle-ESRI SDE vs. Oracle8i-MapInfo (also MO vs. Mapx MapXtreme)

2000-01-27 Thread Tim Keane
We are currently in the process of examining what solution to use to spatially enable our Oracle Database and I invite all to voice their preferences and experiences with ESRI and MapInfo enterprise GIS solutions. Currently the box is as follows... Sun E450 Server Sun Solaris 2.6 2GB RAM

RE: MI Legend backgrounds

2000-01-27 Thread Jeff James
David, In your Layout Window, select the legend frame, click the Region Style button, and set the fill pattern to N for None. That should make the legend transparent. Similarly, you could change it to have a new background color or something. Good luck, Jeff James Vice President Sage

RE: MI Clean Build tool

2000-01-27 Thread Swayze, Natalie: #PNWT - PTNO
Sure, I'd appreciate it. Perhaps I should clarify one thing though: I have 2 layers, one with the lines and one with the points representing the nodes for the lines if they were polygons. Will the tool recognize these point objects as the nodes for the polygons? -- From: Jose

Re: MI Re: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'

2000-01-27 Thread Gerald Kornelsen
It is possible to run some limited commands in a workspace. (I still use MI 4.1.2) For example, I have a few workspaces where I have a message pop up at the end of loading the .wor. To tell the users what the line colours mean, I have this line at the end of the workspace: Note "Note" +

MI Eastings Northings

2000-01-27 Thread David Eagle
Another one for the masses! I have geocoded over 100 addresses by Postcode. I now want to append the Eastings and Northings for each point to this table. I have created two extra columns and have flagged them as integers. I then have tried going to 'Table', 'Update Column' and then select

Re: MI Re: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'

2000-01-27 Thread Steve Wallace
At 12:17 PM 01/27/2000 -0600, you wrote: I just tried to run a menu command in a .wor, but it didn't work. I tried: Run Menu Command M_FILE_PAGE_SETUP to invoke the page setup dialog box. When I ran the workspace, I got a message that M_FILE_PAGE_SETUP is an invalid sub procedure. I guess

Re: MI Eastings Northings

2000-01-27 Thread Steve Wallace
At 06:24 PM 01/27/2000 +, David Eagle wrote: I have geocoded over 100 addresses by Postcode. I now want to append the Eastings and Northings for each point to this table. I have created two extra columns and have flagged them as integers. I then have tried going to 'Table', 'Update Column'

California(CA) Soil/Liquefaction/MMI Data

2000-01-27 Thread Dan Munson
Tim Any idea where to get detailed soil, MMI or liquefaction data for CA? I've found localized information for the Bay Area LA, but they're different. Looking for stuff that covers the whole state, or is at least consistent. I've looked through the Div. Mines Geology ABAG sites, but none of

MI Census tract data

2000-01-27 Thread Karen Behm
Does anybody know where I can find 1990 population by census tracts for free? For entire US - just the big list. I don't need the boundary files, just the tract number and pop count. Karen -- To unsubscribe from this list,

MI FEMA data and/or websites

2000-01-27 Thread Randy Metzger
Hello all, Can somebody please supply me with good sites for FEMA data to be used in MapInfo Professional or supply the data itself. Looking for hail, hurricane, quake, tornado, wind, etc. data to be used for insurance purposes. Mainly concerned with the economic aspects of it; damage in

Re: California(CA) Soil/Liquefaction/MMI Data

2000-01-27 Thread Miguel Iturralde
Dan, These links might be of help: http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/soils_data.htmlcontains a host of soils data at different levels, and http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/stssaid.htmlis the list of available digitized soil surveys, certified as meeting SSURGO standards (county level). There are

MI Anti-aliasing in MapX ExportMap ?

2000-01-27 Thread LVN
Hi all, Does anyone know if MapX's ExportMap method include a possibility of applying anti-aliasing to the generated raster image ? Or must one rely on 3rd party software to accomplish this ? The question becomes relevant when generating map images in MapXtreme, and especially relevant with

RE: California(CA) Soil/Liquefaction/MMI Data

2000-01-27 Thread Brad Mathews
Dan, I do not believe there is yet a state wide source for this information. We, like other companies, have collected the data from DMG as well as county and city sources, then compiled our own state wide data sets for in-house use. - Brad -Original Message- From: Dan Munson

Re: MI Census tract data

2000-01-27 Thread Miguel Iturralde
Karen, Search this site: http://www.ciesin.org/sitemapfr.html. They used to keep the differentCensus STF data from the CD-ROM's in a server, where you could request and download data. Regards, Miguel Iturralde[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Karen Behm

Re: MI Census tract data

2000-01-27 Thread Bill Thoen
You can get these free off the CD's at your nearest Federal Depository Library. See http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/adpos003.html. This federal program is an amazing resource for data hounds who want good data cheap. Call first to see what their policies are about how to transfer data from

MI Integrated Mapping Question

2000-01-27 Thread MikeKilmore
Honored Listers, In Access97 I have a form with an Unbound Object Frame. The wizard knew how make it display a MapInfo map. Now, how do I tell it to recenter the map, with new Lon and Lat? The online docs in MB and Access got me started, and stuck. Thanks all. Mike Kilmore

MI subscribe

2000-01-27 Thread Brien Green
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MI Cost of a GIS

2000-01-27 Thread David Nealey
I often hear or read that data acquisition is the most expensive part of a GIS implementation. For my GIS class this semester I would like to quantity this using data for recent implementations. If you implemented a GIS in the past few years (4), would you mind answering the following

Re: MI Census tract data

2000-01-27 Thread Steve Lackow
Not a good way to get the whole US, but use http://rpmconsulting.com/Census.html when you need small areas by state (as well as large areas like counties, etc.) -- Steve - Original Message - From: "Karen Behm" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:23

Re: MI Census tract data

2000-01-27 Thread Dick Hoskins
How about the 1980 and 1970 census data? Is that available for free somewhere? Dick Hoskins[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Miguel Iturralde To: Karen Behm Cc: Foro de Consultas MapInfo Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 4:27 PM Subject: Re: MI

MI Aligning text in a Mapper window

2000-01-27 Thread Peter_McPherson
Greetings, I am looking for a utility that would align text objects in a Mapper window. I do have an alignIt.MBX (1996), but I have never did get the utility to run. The error I receive is that my Align.dll cannot be found, the dll does exist. I thought I should look for a

Re: California(CA) Soil/Liquefaction/MMI Data, reply

2000-01-27 Thread Figuers
nothing like that exists. CDMG is in the process of creating generalized liquefacation maps (7-1/2 quad scale) of the major urban areas of the state, but that will take several more years to complete. They have finished the central LA area and are now working on the east-bay area in san

Re: California(CA) Soil/Liquefaction/MMI Data, reply 2

2000-01-27 Thread Figuers
You will find it very difficult to use soil survey data to try and estimate liquefaction potential. The CDMG methodology is listed in CDMG special publication 117 (Guidelines for evaluation and mitigating seismic hazards in California). The main difficulty is that liquefaction potential is