Re: MI File access across a network

1999-07-29 Thread Sue Port
John in response to your email about data solutions that support sharing, a few of our clients were faced with the issue of multi-user editing of MapInfo tables. So rather than go to another product, we developed an add-on application called Edit Plus that allows users to edit MapInfo tables simul

Re: MI File access across a network

1999-07-29 Thread Bob Young
Dear John With respect, I think you are mixing two issues, the original question was to do with amount of data when one user READS a map file and you are now mixing this with a seperate issue of multi user access. There are several ways to tackle multi user access. I personally think the best is

RE: MI File access across a network

1999-07-29 Thread Ole Gregor
EMAIL PROTECTED] TLF. (+45) 87271307 > -Original Message- > From: John Brosowsky [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MI File access across a network > > I have in the past shared MapInfo tables

Re: MI File access across a network

1999-07-29 Thread John Brosowsky
I have in the past shared MapInfo tables across a server with mixed results. I had an MI table being maintained on a server machine and at the same time being viewed on client machines. The problem was that when a feature was moved on the server machine, the client machines would not always see i

RE: MI File access across a network

1999-07-29 Thread Ole Gregor
Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:33 PM > To: Darren Kisner > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MI File access across a network > > Hi Darren > > If you are looking at the map only, then MapInfo will only really need > to read the map file. This file may be huge

Re: MI File access across a network

1999-07-28 Thread Bob Young
Hi Darren If you are looking at the map only, then MapInfo will only really need to read the map file. This file may be huge but it will only need to read part of it. Basically the file contains index blocks that contain MBRs ( Minimum bounding rectangles ) . With about twenty blocks per level yo