Re: MI Polygon Reshape Centroid problem

2000-09-26 Thread jchgis
Mapinfo had centroid problems before (in 5.0, 5.5) and I used to get around them by converting polygon to polyline, then back to region. Convoluted, but that's life. -- Sonya Nikolsky JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 Ethan Hohneck wrote: Good morning, good day, and for some

Re: MI RE: Colour tables in Mapinfov5.5

2000-09-26 Thread jchgis
I use transparent (textured) fills for this kind of thing. There are a couple that look like a solid color, but are in fact a dense dot fill giving illusion of transparency. Of course, do not forget to turn "background" off, or it will not work. Sonya Nikolsky JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr

Re: MI draw polyline zoom

2000-08-15 Thread jchgis
Simplicity itself - as you are drawing your polyline and get to the edge of the window, move your cursor outside window boundaries... the map will move to cover your cursor. Do not click to avoid creating unnessessary nodes. Enjoy. -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo [EMAIL

Re: MI Problem with text elements

2000-08-04 Thread jchgis
Update the column where you want to store your data with the following: Objectinfo(obj, 3) -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 David Thibault wrote: Hi all! I have a MapInfo table which contains text element with no attached tabular data. I

Re: MI Simple Browser in Layout Style Question?!

2000-07-13 Thread jchgis
Well, can't help you with column headings, but you can get rid of these pesky grid lines in browser by selecting your browser window and in toolbar under "BrowseOptions" unchecking grid lines. You may pick a prettier typface/size by keeping your browser window selected, and using toolbar

Re: MI Workaround for 5.0 Centroid Bug?

2000-06-20 Thread jchgis
Yes there is a workaround - covert regions to polylines, then back to regions, which for some reason puts centroids back in the center. Sucks, doesn't it? "Stephen R. Riese" wrote: Greetings, I thought this would be a smaller problem than it is turning out to be. There is a bug in the MI

Re: MI Legend Window in Layout

2000-04-07 Thread jchgis
You need to add "From" clause to your create statement, create frame Into Window FrontWindow() (fx2 - 5.0,fy1+2.0) (fx2,fy1 + 17.0) Title legenden_title From Window MyLegendWinHandle FillFrame On -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager

Re: MI Printing Large Format

2000-03-31 Thread jchgis
A thing we did for a similar situation was the following: 1) Get a printer driver for your plotter, install it and set to print to file. 2) In MapInfo, set the plotter as your printer, set up your layout and print to a file. 3)Hope you have a way to carry large files aroung (zip drive, CD

Re:MI- Text drawing

2000-03-30 Thread jchgis
Oh I would love to know too, been curving by hand, like Christine... -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 (919)493-9339 Phone -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to

MI Friday Humour: S.H.I.T.

2000-02-25 Thread jchgis
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MI:Friday Humour

2000-02-11 Thread jchgis
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Re: MI - updating buffer with underlying point ID

2000-02-01 Thread jchgis
Yes there is - update column where CentroidX(buffer)=CentroidX(point) and CentroidY(buffer)=CenroidY(point). This way you are not confused by offcenter points. Tom Manson wrote: Dear list, I have buffers that I created around points. What I wish to do is place the point ID onto the

MI Friday Humour

2000-01-28 Thread jchgis
I think that you will be interested to learn that the European Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibilty. As part of the negotiations, Her

Re: MI geocode question

2000-01-21 Thread jchgis
Well yes there is a simple way to do what you want. In a mapper window, make your table editable, and select your 2 non-object records - put them in a separate browser. Now pick (select) one of them, go to map, pick a point-making tool (with a symbol that you like) and mark it where it belongs.

Re: MI Perto Rico Census Data

2000-01-19 Thread jchgis
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/tools.html http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/census/county/ -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 (919)493-9339 Phone -- To unsubscribe from

Re: MI Pro Geometry Manager

1999-12-23 Thread jchgis
It costs way more than it should (close to a thousand) but is quiet good, once you have a few quirks figured out (for example, "promote topology" actually keeps it the same and "maintain topology" changes lines to surfaces, etc.). Can't compare it to Arcview, since I have no experience on that.

MI e00 file format

1999-12-23 Thread jchgis
Dear listers: Does anybody know how to translate .e00 files into something MapInfo can read? -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 (919)493-9339 Phone -- To unsubscribe from this

MI legend manager trouble

1999-11-22 Thread jchgis
Dear listers: A client called with a problem: Legend Manager that comes with MI 5.5 totally refuses to create or deal with anything exept thematic legends. Cartographic legends are totally not supported, as far as I can see. What's up? It used to be able to handle them fine (client sais). --

MI Friday Humor

1999-10-15 Thread jchgis
Actual excerpts from Royal Navy and Marines officer fitness reports: * His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity. * I would not breed from this officer. * He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction. * He would be out of his depth in a

Re: MI Query for counting overlapping points?

1999-10-14 Thread jchgis
Select YourColumns, Count(*) from YourTable where (some condition that they all pass) group by Long,Lat into Selection This assumes that your points have their coordinates in columns Long, Lat. If they don't you will have to create columns and update them with CentroidX(), CentroidY().

Re: MI reducing spatial coverage

1999-10-05 Thread jchgis
You should save a copy of your table with bounds set. Export to Mid/Mif format, open the .mif file in text editor, and edit the coordsys line (see mapinfo help on setting bounds for projection systems). Hope that helps. Sincerely, Sonya Laith Wark wrote: Dear Friends, I am working with a

Re: MI Search Replace

1999-10-01 Thread jchgis
A lovely program called "TextPad" will do exactly what you want. You can find it at http://www.textpad.com. It's shareware, so if you like you pay. Sonya JCH GeoInfo "Ey, Benjamin" wrote: Dear Listers, Does anyone know of a way of replacing string sequences within multiple files in one go.

Re: MI Selecting Points and Polylines

1999-09-30 Thread jchgis
Dear Agustin: "Intersects" works very well with polylines. You may create a buffer around your points, and write something like: Select * from MyBuffer, Polylines where obj Intersects Polylines..Obj into GonnaBeTransformed. Also, polylines do so have centroids. Sincerely, Sonya JCH GeoInfo

MI Friday Humor

1999-09-24 Thread jchgis
Another Oldie, but goodie: Taken from real resumes and cover letters and printed in the July 21, 1997 issue of Fortune Magazine 1. I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience. 2. I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms. 3. Received a plague for

Re: Selecting via record no in MI

1999-09-03 Thread jchgis
Each record has RowID field though mapinfo doesn't, for some reason, tell you so.. select where RowId100,000 should do you... Sonya JCH GeoInfo Jonathan Stokes wrote: Mornin All (well that depends on the timezone but never mind...) At the moment i'm trying to import MapInfo data into a slightly

Re: MI pattern printing irregularities

1999-08-25 Thread jchgis
Yep had that. Printer driver HP Deskjet 1000c for windows NT or Windows 98 (tried both). Had to work around the problem, using solid fills. Very nasty. Sonya JCH GeoInfo "Matt.Wilkie" wrote: Hi All, Has anybody else had problems printing patterns with v5.5? If I select a sparse dotted

Re: MI Calculating Distance

1999-07-15 Thread jchgis
This is a little application I wrote to do this exact thing. It has table and colum names hardcoded in it, so you may have to do a bit of tailoring (this one finds the nearest doctor for each specialty per given patient). Also, you need a lattitude and longitude for each customer... Include

MI Friday Humour

1999-01-17 Thread jchgis
Official Drug Test 1997 Darwin Stupidity Award Confirmed True by Darwin (1997, Canada) A woman in Canada called the police with a complaint that she had been burnt in a drug deal. She claimed that a man had sold her a rock of crack cocaine, but when she brought it home, it "looked like baking