Fw: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question

2000-09-01 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
imut.exe but it's not suitable for files that take 1.5 hours to convert.. I don't know.. just a thought. MI Pro 6.5? Eric - Original Message - From: "Waardenburg, Dennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: MI and Manifold

2000-08-24 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
umm i am interested but have not had the experience with it to give a definitive answer. 1.) 4.5 is NOT going to replace MI by any means.. for one the labeling is always horizontal, in other words you cannot print a usable street map. 2.) also, I understand trying to do a consistent layout

Re: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network

2000-08-23 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Natalie, Tim: You can just open the workspace with a text editor like notepad and change the drive letter (and path if necessary) in the open statements.. The best solutions I came across when we were doing p2p is to place a subst statement in the autoexec on whatever computer is hosting

Fw: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars

2000-08-18 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
I think I am not clear on the complaint or how save as default is the solution. when you're working with the buttons a lot occasionally you hit in the 'edge' area instead of right on the buttonpad and swish it swaps positions with something else or floats away... I am starting to get the hang

Fw: MI Is MapInfo going to die?

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
curious about ESRI's vapor announcements regarding the new ArcView and wonder in darker moments if MapInfo is actually more focused on landing more enterprise clients like Sprint. Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc. - Original Message - From: "Markovic, Zoran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo

2000-08-14 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
What is wrong with this code: Include "MapBasic.Def" Dim szLayerName As String szLayerName = LayerInfo(FrontWindow(), 1, LAYER_INFO_NAME) Fetch First From szLayerName Dim obj_type As Integer obj_type = ObjectInfo(szLayerName.obj, OBJ_INFO_TYPE) I have tried all sorts of work-arounds like

Re: MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo

2000-08-14 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Yannick Leduc, That works perfectly...thanks for such a fast response! Eric - Original Message - From: "Leduc, Yannick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: RE: MI LAYER_INFO

MI SUM: Mapping Out U.S. Economic Growth and Employment Data by County

2000-06-14 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
I was looking for econ growth and employment data by county for the US a last week for a mapping project and said I'd summarize... +The employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is wonderful! You can download about 240 MB of text files that have the data for EVERY month

MI economic data

2000-06-07 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Hi: Does anyone know where I can get good economic growth and employment data at the county level? Does a government agency disseminate this? Thanks Eric

Fw: MI economic data

2000-06-07 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
to me please, i'll summarize. Eric P.S. Be assured this is the moreinteresting list.. :) Hi Bill - Original Message - From: Steve Smith To: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: Re: MI economic data EricMapInfo-L is an international user

MI US Virgin Islands and Jamaica

2000-05-26 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Hi Mappers: I am looking for streets and demographics for the US Virgin Islands and Jamaica. Geoscape.com lists detailed streets for Jamaica. Does the US Census operate in the Virgin Islands? (census.gov is innacessible at the moment.) I will summarize.. Thanks, Eric

MI miles or kilometers

2000-05-22 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
quick question... does Puerto Rico always use KM? I have addresses with KM markers so I assume it is kilometers? then for reference: Is the U.S. the only country using miles? How about the British? Hawaii must be miles? Thanks! Eric

MI batch generation

2000-05-02 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Hi GIS-ers: I'm trying to do a command-line conversion with the Universal Translator, it seems to work fine like this: L:\HRAGiS\Tools\imut generate Shape MapInfo m:\streets\shape street_convert.fmeL:\HRAGIS\Tools\imut street_convert.fme --SourceDataset m:\streets\shape --DestDataset

MI The Islands

2000-04-25 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Mappers: I am working on a GIS for a major client and they are curious about detailed street and demographic data for the French Antilles, Jamaica, Trinidad, Bahamas, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance! I will summarize. Eric

MI Voronoi Polygons

2000-04-03 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Hi Folks: I'm sure I used to have a tool that would create voronoi polygons but I seem to have misplaced it! As I remember, it was very slow, but gave you an option to put in a maximum radius---so that a store with no other store within a few miles could just appear as a circle with 2

MI LARGE # of Shape Files to Tab

2000-03-28 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
ls\UT\imut myfme.fme --SourceDataset r:\mydata\shape --DestDataset r:\mydata\mitab Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work? Should I generate a huge batch file with these two imut lines and convert each file separately? Thanks! Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MI SDE and MapInfo

2000-03-08 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
be accomplished, automated in an end-user application, etc? Anythingnew on the horizon? Also, what third-party companies have offerings in this area? All insights appreciated! I will summarize. Eric Frost HR and Associates, Inc.

MI annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro?

2000-03-02 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Dear Mappers: With Windows2K Pro and MapInfo 6.0 beta, when I have a MapInfo running and double-click on a table or a workspace in Explorer, it loads it into the currently running MapInfo rather than starting a new instance. Is this a "feature" of Windows 2K or MapInfo 6.0 beta? How

Fw: MI annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro?

2000-03-02 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
off DDE handles it. Thanks Eric - Original Message - From: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:36 AM Subject: MI annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro? Dear Mappers: With Windows2K Pro and MapInfo 6.0 beta, when I have a MapInfo