MI Free Riders versus What is an Ad?

2000-09-22 Thread Neil Havermale
I guess it had to come. But I think we need to understand just what the untold rules may be. (Bill don't get me wrong here, but a point or two needs to be made... your conduct and intent via this list must be considered a gem amongst stones.) Last week another list that also seems to be struggl

MI RE: MobileLBSList: GIS and Wireless PDAs - MapInfo versus ESRI

2000-09-19 Thread Neil Havermale
ur discussion? MidNight Mapper aka Neil -Original Message- From: Alistair Edwardes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:20 PM To: Neil Havermale; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MobileLBSList: GIS and Wireless PDAs - MapInfo versus ESRI Neil, Carolyn et al. Do

MI Wireless PDAs and their Sociology

2000-09-16 Thread Neil Havermale
-Original Message- From: Carolyn White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 9:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Akepad stands alone Neil, As always I enjoyed reading your view on things. (Thanks) If you could be so kind, would you pl

MI PSA - Personal Spatial Assistant - MapXtend and MapinHand

2000-09-14 Thread Neil Havermale
As far as I can tell the MapInfo PDA (read PalmOS) offering is in support of Oracle's WANization via the internet. Oracle has a very strong Java offering in PDA related technologies known as 8i Lite (9iLite is about to be released) that allows the Oracle PDA developer to distribute its Enterprise

MI Ethics, food, and jail

2000-09-06 Thread Neil Havermale
I am a new list reader and now a contributor. We at Red Hen build software mostly for agriculture but have found some of our aggie-tools to have a good utility in other verticals - police stuff being one of them. One of my staff sent me this note and I thought I would share it with you. Mi

MI What is GML and should we MapInfo-ites care?

2000-09-04 Thread Neil Havermale
Apparently GML is some sort of XML format that allows GIS data to be moved around http://www.galdosinc.com/reasons_for_gml.htm I don't this should be dismissed by the fish-wishers MidNight Mapper aka Neil -- To unsubsc

MI Monday morning Globes

2000-08-27 Thread Neil Havermale
Get inspired - GIS is a great profession. http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm MidNight Mapper aka Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message

Summary - MI Oracle and MapInfo - Map/nHand?

2000-08-24 Thread Neil Havermale
Well here is a midnight summary of GISized PDA happenings. Thanks to the several who scratched their heads and added thoughts on the pending Map'nHand PDA offering from MapInfo and wireless PDA GIS in general. Mainly its a very HOT topic, has more potential processors than the PC revolution, and

MI Yikes! A 400+ Percent Return?

2000-08-24 Thread Neil Havermale
Well lets see... If I bought 150 shares about a year ago at $15/share or an outlay of $2250, I would have gotten a 3:2 stock split last December and then another 3:2 distribution this coming September 28th. Today's stock value was $37 (it will likely go down to $30 or so to keep the PE in line wi

MI Oracle and MapInfo - Map/nHand?

2000-08-21 Thread Neil Havermale
This isn't a wish but a hope for consideration. In the scope of the PC/desktop and MapInfo I have attempted to try to gain the advantage of Oracle for our users - large multiple million dollar farms heavily capitalize and on the Net (33kb on good days). Via emerging site specific farming sys

RE: MI Educational use of MapInfo Products

2000-08-21 Thread Neil Havermale
o Products from Neil Havermale: Then you'll need a letter from the individual or department on letterhead asking for the Educational Discount with a brief disclosure of how its going to be used. Along side this cover letter must be a Department PO for the requested order. Data is not disco

MI Educational use of MapInfo Products

2000-08-19 Thread Neil Havermale
For those of you who know the MidNight Mapper I hope you will not overly discount my comments in regards to educational use and licensing of MapInfo technologies. When MapInfo gets berated because its "not conforming to an ESRI practice" well shame on us. I hope we are better than they. ESRI will

RE: MI Is MapInfo going to dead ?

2000-08-16 Thread Neil Havermale
If wishes were fishes... (Where have I heard that before?)   If speculation creates little more than frustration I might gaze into a MapInfo future of:   MapInfo Professional in the next rev "might" come to us as a COM or even better CORBA design.    That MapBasic is replaced by MapJav

MI NIMA, Oracle, and MapInfo

2000-07-29 Thread Neil Havermale
We have been chasing our DOD and its National Image and Mapping Agency (NIMA) for nearly three years. About a year ago after many months of effort we were able to essentially win a DOD-NIMA technology search known as Pathfinder. Pathfinder was a multi-million dollar hunt for spatial multimedia

MI Is that bread baking?

2000-07-10 Thread Neil Havermale
http://dev.pacificmeridian.com/basis/Other_stuff/Senarios/ Interested? -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MI FW: [AV] Important ESRI Articles from our Host

2000-07-09 Thread Neil Havermale
-Original Message- From: Scott Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [AV] Important ESRI Articles from our Host ArcView - http://lists.directionsmag.com/discussion/ List participants, Bill Huber may be too modest to p

MI Take the Internet Geography Challenge ?

2000-07-08 Thread Neil Havermale
Cartography - wow! What is that? Yep, I will agree. Maps have been misinterpreted since two rocks were set down relative to each other. Was this poor cartography? The information age map is something even more difficult. It squirms in near real-time under our spatial scalpels and our Z-ray

RE: MI SUM: Oracle Spatial Vs. ArcSDE

2000-06-25 Thread Neil Havermale
Mike - I am concerned that MapInfo has not risen to your quest. From what I read the SDE-orientated responses against Spatial and MapInfo's tight integration to 8i is concerning. Understand that it was a very big deal when Oracle decided to run with MapInfo and not peruse the old model of SDE/S

MI AD - Who will help us harvest the grain???

2000-06-17 Thread Neil Havermale
-Original Message- From: Bill Dakai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 4:27 PM To: Neil Havermale; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI Hmmm Looks like uncertain times over at ESRI? Neil, Before I start let me state that I'm not an "ESRI-ite". H

MI Hmmm.... Looks like uncertain times over at ESRI?

2000-06-16 Thread Neil Havermale
Saw this go over the list for ArcView. Sounds like a problem is brewing for Jack's followers. And you thought you had problems with the cost of a 6.0 upgrade? Then I also saw that AkeExploiter is now 100% JAVA based - you know that free AkeView "viewer" follow-on that replaced the original AkeV

MI Looking or Lost? What is NEARME?

2000-06-10 Thread Neil Havermale
Having been on the bleeding edge of the integration of GPS and GIS via MapInfo since DOS was a bad-dream, I thought I would visit the emerging WEB-site of an old friend, John Haller, and his newest effort, NEARME. What is interesting about this? If I have the story right, MapInfo was the res

MI Video Software Engineers Needed

2000-06-08 Thread Neil Havermale
Red Hen Systems, a Fort Collins, Colorado located software company is looking for one or two software engineers skilled in video edition methods. Join a leading group integrating geographical information systems with digital video and photography. We are a small group of under 25 doing some rat

AD: MI MapInfo and Forestry Companies

2000-06-07 Thread Neil Havermale
We have a spatial photography system that georeferences either video segments, video images, or digital imagery for Kodak's 290 cameras. Such spatial imagery can be automatically brought into MapInfo Professional workspaces. The spatial image slice and dice for image preparation and spatial inde

MI In addition to mapinfo-l ????

2000-05-25 Thread Neil Havermale
Bill - Could you provide the list for the other lists: MapX, MapXtreme, and MapInfo TAB file anatomies? I wasn't aware of these unless they are up on the Summit via MapInfo.com. Do you (or our list in general) know of any lists that deal with GIS research and application to crime / traffic /

RE: MI MapInfo-FoxPro Connectivity

2000-05-24 Thread Neil Havermale
As much as I dislike directing you towards the Manifold group, they may just have a solution to your need. http://www.manifold.net/products/commander/commander_home.html Wouldn't it be great if MapInfo were to integrate Oracle 8i Lite into their/our products? FWIW MidNight Mapper 5/25/00 > --

RE: MI MapInfo-FoxPro Connectivity

2000-05-24 Thread Neil Havermale
FYI http://www.redhensystems.com/vms Red Hen -Original Message- From: G. Benc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapInfo-FoxPro Connectivity Hi All! I am currently in the process of compiling multiple databases together an

RE: MI migrating from MapX to MapXtreme/MapXtend????

2000-05-23 Thread Neil Havermale
Yes, very good question. Please copy any summary to me. We have been building ActiveX controls like mad-men only to see these COMs be potentially discriminated against. MidNight Mapper 5/24/00 -Original Message- From: rajeev saraf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 24,

MI Oracle 8i-Lite or is xBASE Dead?

2000-05-16 Thread Neil Havermale
Several days ago I broached the subject that it seems that MapInfo products might be able to rely on Oracle's 8i-Lite as a way to get on-board the Oracle train. Oracle 8i-Lite is a small foot-print object database with sufficient capability to do the database stuff most of require. Having the

RE: MI Windows 2000 Migration

2000-05-15 Thread Neil Havermale
MapInfo 5.5 runs fine under NT 4.0 as far as my experience goes - DELL Precision 410. Also the pending 6.0 seems to be working very well as the last candidate release. Should be available early June. One thing that has be some what bugged on WIN2000 is the lack of modem drivers. Essentially 3CO

MI MapX OCX and Oracle 8i Lite?

2000-05-15 Thread Neil Havermale
I have a question that I hope we may be able to get some discussion on. While MapInfo Professional 6.0 seems to be getting its stuffing kicked out via the debate about cost of update versus value, a potential neat solution may also be had for the developer that by-passes most of this noise. I've

MI PING MapInfo-l

2000-05-13 Thread Neil Havermale
Is it still alive on 5/13/00? -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MI Best GIS for dollar

2000-05-10 Thread Neil Havermale
Ian - You have to be joking! Do it all over again? ESRI's AkeView superior to MapInfo? Given your small summary and last (and almost missing) detail on your uplifting story of ESRI's AkeInfo 8.0 (to be confused with AkeView), that is its price tag of, what, $51,000 AUD or $27,500 US, I think y

RE: MI Map Viewer

2000-05-10 Thread Neil Havermale
Great insight Jennifer! At the hazard of suggesting that MapInfo Professional 6.0 might offer another pathway - distribution via HTML. I believe that the BlueMarble (http://www.bluemarbelgeo.com) group also offers some sort of free viewer MidNight Mapper aka Neil 5/11/00 -Original Mes

RE: MI TAB file format

2000-05-09 Thread Neil Havermale
Nancy - The TAB data format is available via a programmers kit know as MFAL. It requires a license agreement as well as, I believe, a partner status. You might also consider contacting MapInfo Australia. MidNight Mapper aka Neil 5/10/00 Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: MI - MapInfo Pro Geometry Manager V1.0

2000-04-22 Thread Neil Havermale
I have run several tests with the Geometry Manager and it works. To get the full effect for some really tangled line work you need to have enough experience to know what options and errors to target. It may seem to chug along and take longer than you might be able to tolerate but its results have

RE: MI I was going to invest.... but ??

2000-04-20 Thread Neil Havermale
The suspicous investor or lurker could think one of several things: 1) He knows something we do not - likely. 2) He is about to jump ship and decided to maximize his options - doubtfull 3) He is a wiley-old dog who knows when the marketplace was a tad overvalued - most likely. 4) He has decide

RE: MI MapInfo and Video or Picture

2000-04-06 Thread Neil Havermale
Take a look at Media Mapper / VMS FYI   http://www.redhensystems.com/ -Original Message-From: Javier Quispe Varillas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:36 AMTo: Lista de MapInfoSubject: MI MapInfo and Video or Picture Friends :     I am in a di

RE: MI SDE and MapInfo Summary

2000-03-16 Thread Neil Havermale
Great news?  I understand there may be a SDE-Lite that extends SDE over Access?  Anyone got the skinny?   MidNight Mapper aka Neil 3/16/00 -Original Message-From: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:18 AM Subject: MI

RE: MI mif2tab.exe ?

2000-03-16 Thread Neil Havermale
There is a better answer to all of this. I would suggest you contact MapInfo's Developer Services and ask about access to TAB MidNight 3/16/00 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: MI MapInfo and Laptops (Notebooks) Any comments?

2000-03-15 Thread Neil Havermale
We really like the VIAOs form SONY. Super packaging and very high quality. MidNight Mapper 3/15/00 -Original Message- From: David Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 6:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapInfo and Laptops (Notebooks) Any comments? Anyone

MI Colorado's Front Range is the National "GIS Hotbed"

2000-03-09 Thread Neil Havermale
This went over my desk and thought I might share it with you MidNight 3/9/00 -Original Message- From: Joe Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:33 AM Subject: Front rage "GIS Hotbed" FYI... GEOWorld - The World's Leading Integrated Spatial Technolo

MI Wireless Internet

2000-03-06 Thread Neil Havermale
Here is a solutin that may give event he lowly farmer a bvigger pipe to the net http://www.tachyon.net/ FY MidNight Mapper -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in

MI RE: GPS position correction

2000-03-03 Thread Neil Havermale
There are two basic ways to do this: RTCM 105 Ver 2.0 versus RINEX. The RTCM method is realtime and requires in the reviever the Flashcode to off-set the differential from pseudorange. The receiver itself is the translator for realtime differential accureay. Any number of GPS devices can output

RE: MI Geometry Manager

2000-02-27 Thread Neil Havermale
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 11:16 PM Subject: RE: MI Geometry Manager At 01:12 AM 02/25/2000 -0700, Neil Havermale wrote: >Consider the Geometry Manager from MapInfo. > >It is a topology snapper and a slice and dicer for intersection. It works >as a checker

RE: MI Topology Correctors - geometry mgr

2000-02-25 Thread Neil Havermale
Consider the Geometry Manager from MapInfo. It is a topology snapper and a slice and dicer for intersection. It works as a checker for most of MapInfo's topology issues. It has been handy to soften the brutal reality you tend to run into during digitazation or after importing data. The tec

MI What might this mean ?

2000-02-14 Thread Neil Havermale
OpenGIS seems a bit of a strech but who knows? In any case, this endorsement could really be interesting with heaps of potential or incredibly furstrating that we need it but the fight to really get it may soon fall to a "standards committee". And we all know what Standards Committees do to sta

RE: MI Thematic Maps in MapInfo 5.5

2000-02-14 Thread Neil Havermale
You may already have reveived an answer.  There is MIG API kit that cna be had from MapInfo.  Contact your representative or contact Andy Dressel.    MidNight aka neil -Original Message-From: James Elkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:13 AMTo:

MI And you think MapInfo has Upgrade issues...

2000-02-09 Thread Neil Havermale
Saw this go over the AkeView "public" list and just had to share it... MidNight Mapper aka Neil * R Harris wrote: ESRI's pricing structure for extensions and upgrades are one of the most confusing and closely guarded strategies of ESRI. Real marketing wizardry. Matter of fact some

MI [mapx] subscribe

2000-02-09 Thread Neil Havermale
subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Love. Relat

MI AkeView 4.0 versus Mapinfo Professional 6.0

2000-02-01 Thread Neil Havermale
Saw this go over the AkeView list today. I was wondering if there were any opinions on the pending MapInfo Professional 6.0 potential MidNight Mapper aka Neil 2/1/00 -Original Message- From: McNeil, Todd W. (TMCNEIL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 1:58 P

RE: MI GPS & Digital Camera Connection

2000-01-30 Thread Neil Havermale
MediaMapper just released by Red Hen Systems for Kodak cameras. http://www.redhensystems.com FYI -Original Message- From: Gatot Purnomo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:58 PM To: Mapinfo-l Subject: MI GPS & Digital Camera Connection Hello Folks... I reme

MI JAVA News: Tools

1999-12-13 Thread Neil Havermale
Saw this and thought that it might be of interest to the emerging JAVA and JAVA Beans things going on http://www.idg.net/servlet/ContentServlet?global_doc_id=95772&page_id=712&content_source_id=5&return_spot=ts13&logger_loc=front_pages%2Fenglish MidNight Mapper aka Neil

Re: MI MapInfo Stock - On fire

1999-12-09 Thread Neil Havermale
Bill the stock was moving before the announcement of a 3:2 split. Why? Well lets see. My bet is primarily the effect of Oracle 8i and DB2 integration with the MapInfo internet model, MapXtream. Given that both database systems are moving towards JAVA designs, it makes MapInfo suddenly a very g

MI MapInfo News: Stock Split

1999-12-08 Thread Neil Havermale
MapInfo Announces Three-For-Two Stock Split 12/8/99 Troy,NY--MapInfo Corporation (Nasdaq: MAPS- news) today announced that the Board of Directors has declared a three-for-two stock split. The split will be effected in the form of a stock dividend which will entitle each shareholder of record to

MI Java News: Oracle and JAVA 2 ?

1999-12-07 Thread Neil Havermale
Hey, MapExtream developers and MapInfo Corporate - what does this mean? It this good? Whats next? Things are moving so fast. Heck even your stock is over $30! Was MapInfo there? I mean the meeting was just down the river from Troy and were they there? If so what was the scoop? MidNight Map

Re: MI Calculate Raster Area / Convert to Vector

1999-12-05 Thread Neil Havermale
Richard Greenwood wrote: > >Damian has a reasonable request and one that seems to identify somewhat of > >a weakness in MI, i.e., ability to do something with raster images. > > >I use MI and Vertical Mapper. Vertical Mapper uses is quite flexible with > >grid (grd & grc) files. > > I suggested

Re: MI Calculate Raster Area / Convert to Vector

1999-12-05 Thread Neil Havermale
Great idea. Needs a couple of steps though. First is the creation of the needed reference gird and color numberization. Next you need a "clumping" tool to define areas of adjacent color. Lastly you need a raster to vector conversion if raster while faster is not as corrector MidNight Mapp

MI SDE Lite?

1999-11-30 Thread Neil Havermale
I was wondering if anyone knows much of anything about the pending release of SDE-Lite from ESRI? My understanding is it is based on version 4 of Microsoft's Jet Engine technology? If it fits into their pending COM design for AkeInfo 8 would it be possible to call it from MapInfo products? MidN

MI A Slippery Slope ?

1999-11-30 Thread Neil Havermale
We have "average" plus other kinds of slope... FITTED - is the default keyword and results in the slope of a plane fitted through the values of the target cell and its eight neighbors. MAXIMUM - specifies that the maximum of the four possible slopes drawn through the eight neighbors is assigned

MI Is any price too much? Geometry Manager

1999-11-06 Thread Neil Havermale
Dick Hoskins wrote: > How does one communicate with MI management about things like this? That is, > the huge price of Geometry Manager. > If I were a shareholder.. Personally, selling something versus giving it away for FREE, makes some cents to me As I read the knee-jerk reactions to

MI MapInfo and SDE

1999-11-03 Thread Neil Havermale
If you can not beat them.. Applied GIS SMC is a powerful data access and translation tool that allows for the easy exchange of data between ESRI's Spatial Database Engine™ (SDE™) and MapInfo Professional. With SMC, SDE layers can now be accessed from within MapInfo and MapInfo tables can b

MI News: Return from the Dead Zone...

1999-10-30 Thread Neil Havermale
Hypoxia and its Dead Zone versus Soil Carbon Credits Yes, MapInfo, we too can contribute. In the Mid-West agriculture kicks out about $98 billion worth of commodities even in the bad years. And apparently there is another result: the leakage of nitrates, organic nitrogen, and phosphates tha

Re: MI AD. EasyPlot - Plotting from MapInfo made Easy

1999-10-29 Thread Neil Havermale
Cartography - well Yahoo! Good stuff MidNight Aka Neil Carl Nunn - Aligned Assets wrote: > Aligned Assets are proud to announce the release of EasyPlot. > > EasyPlot is a feature rich, attractive and easy to use solution for > producing and printing formatted layouts in MapInfo. --

MI MapInfo Defense News: GeoTrans?

1999-10-28 Thread Neil Havermale
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

Re: MI Re: Oracle8i and MapInfo

1999-10-26 Thread Neil Havermale
Andy - Many thanks on this. I knew I wasn't a complete fool on this despite the odd email I received. Further, I also believe (foolishly) that the 8i plus Spatial Cartridge our our interest can be put together on a single CD if Oracle wanted to offer such a "package" for single seat spatial u

MI Developers Summit - Marco Island, Florida November 10-13, 1999

1999-10-22 Thread Neil Havermale
Rajeev - Like all meeting that are product orientated you will likely get what you seek. For myself, I still recall the first Developer Meetings in Troy. They had an intimacy now lost. But then the group was only 100 or so, MapInfo still resided at the maze in downtown Troy and the gross MapIn

MI US and World Soils

1999-10-17 Thread Neil Havermale
Rrom the United States: http://www.statlab.iastate.edu/soils/nssc/explorer/soilex.htm For the rest of the world here is a good link http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/research/rsrch_ss.html MidNight Six Billion and Counting Soil Carbon Credits Anyone?

MI MapInfo News -

1999-10-13 Thread Neil Havermale
This was on the wire today - good news. Profits keeps the product innovation flowing MidNight *** SARATOGA, N.Y. (Dow Jones)--MapInfo Corp. (MAPS) expects to report earnings of about 28 cents a share for the fourth quarter and 75 cents a share for the year, topping

MI Re: Oracle 8i and MapInfo News: Step One (b)

1999-10-12 Thread Neil Havermale
Thanks Andy. Very helpful to this 8i-lurker; not horribly difficult but still requiring some learning. I was successful after a hour and a bit. Eureka! I feel like quite a giant killer! Still hoping for one of the marketing guys to drop in and confirm the 8i Personal thing. The more folks we

MI Oracle/MapInfo News: Good Question

1999-10-12 Thread Neil Havermale
Chris - Recently I too talked at length with ESRI on the SDE-ArcView versus Oracle8i Spatial Cartridge-ArcView connection. Not a clear connection. While it is possible to purchase Oracle 8i Personal for $395 and also purchase the 8i Spatial Cartridge for $360 for "a" workstation, neither SDE no

MapBasic and MI Pro 6.0 or MapX?

1999-10-12 Thread Neil Havermale
"5. Not a penny wasted on legacy code. Surprisingly enough, many of the GIS applications running today were developed in the days when FORTRAN ruled the earth. Not only does legacy code cost vendors a lot to maintain, it costs users a fortune to operate. Running weird, nonstandard languages lik

MI Oracel/MapInfo News: Sum Oracle vs Sql Server

1999-10-12 Thread Neil Havermale
ks Oracle is > regarded as better on both counts but extremely difficult to find > meaningful comparisons. > > Hope that helps. We went for oracle because 50 connections serves our 230 > users fine so Oracle won easily on price. Best advice I heard was "choose > your po

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 Oracle 8i and MapInfo NEWS: Step One

1999-10-11 Thread Neil Havermale
ght also be a really neat gift to any Press (or stockholders) that may be lurking at Marco. I know ESRI can not make use of the Spatial Cartridge (today); can MapInfo? Now that would be cool and in my mind a worthy investment of someone's time back in Troy. Neil Havermale aka MidNight Mapper

MI Oracle and MapInfo?

1999-10-09 Thread Neil Havermale
We should study this a bit more What is MapX versus MapJ? Are you going to be in Florida? >From Oracle" http://www.oracle.com/database/options/spatial/mapinfo.html Why is Oracle doing this with MapInfo? MapInfo has fully embraced the Internet computing model and Oracle8i. They have als

MI Oracle 8i and MapInfo technologies

1999-10-05 Thread Neil Havermale
"A milestone in moving into the broader Business Intelligence market is our successful relationship with Oracle. Together, we are delivering the world's first Internet-based spatial solution on Oracle8i. With Oracle, we are a leading player in the market with a 100% pure Java Spatial Internet Solu

MI 30 Million Records!

1999-10-03 Thread Neil Havermale
30 Million Records - Wow! I am not certain that a MapInfo native TAB would be the optimal way to access a record set this large. Most likely the use of Oracle 8i would speed things up quite a lot if you need to hunt around in them. Try Oracle 8i Personal ($395) and down load their Spatial Cartrid

Re: MI raster to vector

1999-09-26 Thread Neil Havermale
try: http://www.redhensystems.com/soilrx Stephen Wallace wrote: > hello all > > Is there software that will automatically vectorize a raster image into > polygons. > What I am looking for, is one polygon for each pixel in an image. > > Thank You > > Stephen Wallace > > -

MI What is Oracle Spatial?

1999-09-24 Thread Neil Havermale
What is Oracle Spatial? The product provides an integrated set of functions and procedures that enable spatial data to be stored, accessed, and analyzed quickly and efficiently in Oracle8i. This means that spatial and attribute data can now be managed in one physical database, thereby reducing pr

Re: MI: What is MI's market share in the US and abroad?

1999-09-24 Thread Neil Havermale
I believe the most recent issue of GeoInfoSystems Sept 1999 - "Framework Data Survey Preliminary" on page 26 / Fig 13 you'll find a "map" for Spatial Distribution of Popular GIS Systems Nationwide - County Government. Yes, it does show that ESRI has a number or county governments but you as I are

MI SDEBasic

1999-09-24 Thread Neil Havermale
The other day I believe we saw an offer over this list (Oh those darned spanners!) of a new tool that allows MapInfo to access SDE on a read and write basis. I saw this info on SDEBasic go by this AM and was wondering if would be useful? It might be cheaper that SDE and Spatialware. I am not ce

Re: MI vs ArcINFO

1999-09-23 Thread Neil Havermale
Cost a lot more? Have a really horrible support policy? Run slower? I too have been thinking about this topic. My bet is this time next year both companies have a full COM design. The major difference is you will need to build in VB-A(ke) and have to own SDE to make ESRI stuff go. MapInfo w

MI Macro Polo?

1999-09-19 Thread Neil Havermale
Steve - "watch as we pay more money for functions that are often included in the base package and price of other GIS's" I think you may have squealed before you have been bitten. I don't have a problem in paying reasonable update/support fees. I will agree resonable is a debateable word. T

MI Macro Polo?

1999-09-18 Thread Neil Havermale
Preview the radical changes coming in MapInfo Professional 6.0 including upprecedented level of componentization (three years-over in the skunk-works), direct access to several alien data formats (hmmm, like SHP?), and new useability design. Watch for new release of ProViewer 5.5 and nifty 1.0 ad

MI FarmGIS News - Millions of Acres

1999-09-18 Thread Neil Havermale
There about 700,000,000 out of about a billion acres that produce the vast majority of our Nation's food and fiber. Our Nation's farming future is undergoing tremendous change as our farming system changes its technology base from a system that causes turbid water (muddy erosion) for clear water

MI Yikes SQL!

1999-09-17 Thread Neil Havermale
Is it possible to write a SQL statement via Professional that contains joins? For example: "Select IMGCOMP.COMPKEY, IMAGES.IMGID From (IMGCOMP INNER JOIN IMAGES ON IMGCOMP.IMGKEY = IMAGES.IMGKEY)" MidNight -- To unsubscribe f

MI MapInfo 6.0 News: MapJ Release

1999-09-17 Thread Neil Havermale
Kim Greenham wrote: > Hello listers, > Some weeks back I asked if and when Mapinfo are going to support some sort > of object oriented programming language such as VB. This stirred some deep > waters I was awake past midnight and your question continued to haunt me? Is there a future wi

Re: MI - SUM - contouring

1999-09-02 Thread Neil Havermale
There is another solution. Surflink and Surfer. Golden Software's Surfer - http://www.goldensoftware.com Farmers Software Association http://www.farmsoft.com Surfer is "the" scientific reference for surface modeling. It has many interpolation methods and generates 3D visuals "and" necessary c

Re: MI Cat amongst the pigeons on object oriented programming

1999-09-02 Thread Neil Havermale
Give MapX a go. OOP design is in the Professional future. Its just MapInfo sees that the opportunity of building JAVA and Oracle enabling design is a necessary step to provide the longer term platforms we will need next year. Do not get dicouraged. I would suggest you down load MapX 4.0 for fr

Re: MI SDTS

1999-09-01 Thread Neil Havermale
You need to get out more! MidNight Mapper aka Neil 9/1/99 Dan Munson wrote:  I've noticed that MapInfo has some sort of search engine for searching the national spatial databases. Isn't it ironic that you can't translate any of the formats - like SDTS, DLG, etc! HA HA! Dan Dan Munson Vice Presid

MI Yikes!!!!

1999-09-01 Thread Neil Havermale
Radical changes coming in MapInfo Professional 6.0 including unprecedented level of componentization (four years-over in the skunk-works my guess), direct access to several alien data formats (hmmm, like SHP2?), and new useability design - well Yahoo!. Essentially a new rewrite and design of Profe

Re: MI OpenGIS press release: "unprecedented interoperability betweensystems that use geospatial data"

1999-08-25 Thread Neil Havermale
You had me worried for a moment until I saw that Oracle was involved. And given that Oracle's 8i is essentially cleaning the internet table for data tied to the recent availability of interMedia (images, video, audio, and point geography), I would not worry too much. Did you know that you can es

MI Greener Grass?

1999-08-25 Thread Neil Havermale
I have been watching the thread concerning MapInfo Professional 5.5's bugs and crash. Having to develop for both MapInfo and AkeView we can tell you MapInfo is more stable in our opinion. But if you are deciding to jump ship towards AkeView here is a nifty free utility that is increasingly popul

Re: MI GPS data dowloading?

1999-08-25 Thread Neil Havermale
You likely face the issue of setting parameters within the receiver itself. Therefore you will need to get a hold of the "manual" of these control and response strings. Uploading data for way point or other issues you very likely will need to use their software. As to the post processing of the G

Re: MI trouble combining complex polygons - the MI Paparazi

1999-08-19 Thread Neil Havermale
Richard - Wow! Well we can always wait for Win2000? Good or bad I was very, very happy when little-old Microsoft stomped on IBM's toes, Win 3.1 kicked OS2 in the butt, and the WINTEL fueled information revolution took off. Then, many of us were very worried that we would all too soon be working

MI e00 file format INFO

1999-08-17 Thread Neil Havermale
Ran across this today and thought the content might be useful. MidNight mapper aka Neil 8/17/99 ** Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 07:23:10 -0400 From: Shannon Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I would like to thank all who responded. It turns out, I was in

Re: MI Printing - frustration!!

1999-08-17 Thread Neil Havermale
Chris - Yes, I too used to fret and fear the making of reality from the ephermeric vapors of a layout. Then I found HTML and VRML and I left that moment behind.. MidNight Mapper 8/17/99 A system is defined as the hardware portion that will someday fail and software the portion that may som

Re: MI MapX and Windows CE

1999-08-13 Thread Neil Havermale
John - I am not certain this is entirely true. I have been spending time trying to better understand what Oracle's 8i is all about and in particular how we in the MapInfo matrix might gain the opportunity offered. I beleive the answer is via Java and Oracle's 8i Lite. Oracle Lite is essentiall

MI Oracle Stuff

1999-08-09 Thread Neil Havermale
I am very curious in how to play the "ace" MapInfo has given us with their alliance with Oracle. I made a call to MapInfo last week asking what I thought might be a simple question regarding how to buy Oracle 8i and its associated parts and pieces. I have not heard anything yet but expect a res

MI One too many steps?

1999-08-09 Thread Neil Havermale
Saw this and thought possibly some of the network folks within our group might show some interest MidNight * CLIP ** > Hello everyone, > This didnt show up the first time I sent it...so I am trying again. > > My company is thinking about purchasing the Network Analysis exten

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