MI Conversion to GDA using NTV2 Grid file

2000-05-04 Thread Bradley Browne
Is MapInfo capable of converting files from Long/Lat to GDA using an NTV2 Grid file ? -- Bradley Browne Support Manager Desktop Mapping Systems Pty Ltd 1st Floor 646 Newcastle St Leederville, WA 6007 Ph: +61 8 9328 2715 Fax: +61 8 9328 2716 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mapsys.com.au/ -

RE: MI Select a record from Multiple Tables

2000-05-04 Thread Scott Barling
Thanks for your response Jacques, Bellow is some code I slapped together to solve the problem, it checks all open tables for the field "Record_ID" and if it finds the field performs a search for "RecordID" which is a variable entered by the user. It is quite messy with a lot of Goto statements a

MI Fix_WOR ----- SoftWare Glitch -------- FIXED

2000-05-04 Thread Trey Pattillo
APOLOGIES TO ALLespecially if you used Fix_WOR without backing up [ I warned you ]   There was a problem with the RichEdit control .. it saved the file with *formatting codes* I use the Windoze RichEdit because a memo has a limit on the number of character [32k] where

MI Desktop shortcuts in Proviewer 5.5

2000-05-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
Hello,   We have Proviewer 5.5 in our office, and more and more people are asking for it.  The location of our Workspaces and data can sometimes be rather cryptic to find across our network.  I thought I could just install the program on their machines, which then automatically would associa

Re: MI SQL Server vs Oracle

2000-05-04 Thread Erick Posner
Check it out at http://www.alstech.com One of their speciality is Informix/SpatialWare servers. Informix/SpatialWare is a powerful system designed to work with MapInfo. You can use Informix/SpatialWare to easiliy manipulate and conduct true GIS analysis while in MapInfo. Yes, it's a SQL server.

Re: MI Info tool doesn't like my files

2000-05-04 Thread Eric Johnson
Regarding the info tool problem ... an easy way to 'get the info window back' is to use OPTIONS>SHOW MAPBASIC WINDOW and then type in the command: SET WINDOW INFO POSITION (1,1) and hit return. -- Eric Johnson GIS Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: MI Coord conversion

2000-05-04 Thread Cliff Mugnier
The formulae (Redfearn's formulas for Gauss-Kruger Transverse Mercator) are in an Excel macro at the Australian Land Information Group's site at auslig.com. You will have to change the constants to be pertinent for the UK, but the formulae are there and done. Rather nice job, too. Clifford J. M

Re: MI info tool doesn't like my files

2000-05-04 Thread Alexander Teleshev
Hello Tim, ñðåäà, 3 Ìàé 2000, you wrote: TW> Listers, TW> I've just run into something curious. I've opened a bunch of files and now TW> the info tool won't work. When I click on an object, nothing happens. No TW> error message, no lock up, just nothing. The files are a mix of Topo Depot TW> fi

Re: MI Opening Workspaces

2000-05-04 Thread Simon W Fox
Quick thankyou to everyone who has responded. "Run application Workspacename.wor" Is the general response. I've had a go and it works fine. Thanks again Simon -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

MI question about labels disappearing

2000-05-04 Thread Karl Kliparchuk
Hi All, I have a client that is running MI Pro v5.5. He says that he has a layer of points and wants to autolabel them with their ID. He has the checkboxes for allowing overlapping text and allowing duplicate text on. When he views the autolabel text in his map window, not all the labels ap

MI: Left Joins in MapInfo

2000-05-04 Thread Robert Crossley
In answer to a posting a while ago, I thought I'd share a trick I just confirmed would work, although hadn't bothered to try it before. It is useful if you want to do either a left join of two tables or delete records in one table that do not occur in another - something that was on the list rece

MI: Overlapping labels problem

2000-05-04 Thread Jean-Francois Lepine
Hello, Is there a function in MB that can determine if a label object overlap another one (kind of a boolean function)? I'm asking 'cause I have a layer with overlapping labels and don't want to show them(I know that I can set overlapping to off, but then one of the two or three overlapping

MI Problem between Proviewer and French MapInfo

2000-05-04 Thread V. VESTRI
Grenoble, le 4 mai 2000 I have a question regarding Proviewer. - When I open a workspace with the proview, I lost legend and anything else - I think that the problem come from the french version of mapinfo. In fact, the title of all windows change between version. Any idea

Re: MI SUM - World Cities Database

2000-05-04 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello James, Can I just append my company's world data offering onto your excellent sum: Europa Technologies has a series of world data sets which includes the popular Global Insight product line. The entry level product in this family is Global Insight Lite - a 1:3m scale up-to-date politic

MI SQL Server vs Oracle

2000-05-04 Thread PPR Jon Bloor
Dear All I know there has been some traffic recently regarding Oracle 8 and MapInfo, but I was wondering whether anyone had experience of SQL server??? The reason is that we are currently examining new databases, and the main thrust seems to be for SQL serverbut the database ( a comprehensive

Re: MI Mapinfo

2000-05-04 Thread Mick
Simon you need the Run Appliaction Statement Purpose Runs a MapBasic application or adds a MapInfo workspace. Syntax Run Application file file is the name of an application file or a workspace file Description The Run Application statement runs a MapBasic application or loads a MapInfo wo

MI Coord conversion

2000-05-04 Thread David Eagle
Does anyone know of a simple and free coordinate converter, Lat/long to BNG eastings/northings primarily? Or indeed the formula to do such a calculation! I thank you... Dave _ David A. Eagle WS Atkins Consultants - East Anglia Wellbrook C

MI map of Israel needed

2000-05-04 Thread Henderson,K
Hi there, Does anyone out there know where I get get hold of an outline map of Israel ? Thanks, Kerrie *** Kerrie Henderson Room S401, IT Services LSE, London WC2A 2AE Tel: 0171-955-6321 -- To unsubscribe fro

Re: MI ArcInfo Export files?

2000-05-04 Thread Tom Brockenbrough
Its an ArcInfo export file. I use MapInfo 5.5 and under the tools menu there is a utility called ArcLink that will translate files from MapInfo to ArcInfo export and vice versa. I have had problems with exporting to ArcInfo and errors if anyone has some suggestions or tips. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr

Re: MI MapXtreme Java I/O Exception

2000-05-04 Thread Antoine Gilbert, KOREM
Hi i think it's simply because you access the file at the wrong place... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:39 PM Subject: MI MapXtreme Java I/O Exception to MapXtreme Java Users:   I recently setup

MI SUM - World Cities Database

2000-05-04 Thread James Marlow
Hi All Seems that worldwide city databases are in short supply - at least free ones are. Here is what I found: 1) The following site has a fairly large city database that can be queried - and feeds back a lat/long and some other minor data. This is what I actually used for most of my research (I

MI Dialogboxes in mapBasic??????

2000-05-04 Thread Haavard Bogh-Olsen
Hello Does anyone know if and where I can find a freeware-program that creates dialogboxes gui(?)easily, like in Visual Basic, in MapBasic?? thank you very much Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.

MI Mapinfo

2000-05-04 Thread Simon W Fox
Dear all Just a quick question for you. Is there a way of opening a workspace through mapbasic using a simple command followed by the workspace name as you can for a table, ie. Open Table "C:States". I want to avoid having to list out the text content of the workspace I wish to open. I did atte

RE: MI 4 out 5 dentist survey say

2000-05-04 Thread AYoung
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