MI-L MI: Memory leak - any more news? Does version 6.5 fix problem.

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Crossley
I am having a similar problem to David Haycraft with a Mapbasic appliction running in version 6.0 which gradually fills the pagefile of NT. It is a fairly intensive application, creating a MapInfo grid file based on the proportion of a layer which covers each pixel, but that should not mean that

MI-L MapInfo: Combining layers

2001-03-15 Thread John Scott
To any of you who know: I have several 10 km x 10 km maps, each with multiple layers, and each layer in each map has a similar name. I want to combine all layers in all of my maps, into one single layer. For example, each map has a layer called 'contour' . If I have six maps, there will be six

MI-L Off topic: MapX licencing costs?

2001-03-15 Thread general
Hi, Thinking about buying MapX and creating third party software with it. Anyone know what the story with licensinc & royalty payments to MapInfo is? Trying to find out from MI themselves is hard. Are we talking annual fees and unlimited distribution (I wish) or royalty payment to MI per copy so

MI-L Format of dates in tables linked to MsAccess

2001-03-15 Thread m . e . smith
Anyone know what controls the date format shown in a tab file linked to Access? (The date column comes from Access) I've played around on my system, and it doesn't appear to matter what format the date is in Access or the system date format as defined by Region Settings in Control Panel, it alwa

MI-L Re: Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Joshua Ostroff
Three points: First, it's an exercise in politics, so the party in power will seek to protect or increase its advantage by fragmenting the opposition, defined by whatever means but usually as voters for X party. Second, if you have skills to offer, there's probably an opportunity to consult or

MI-L Creating Watershed boundaries

2001-03-15 Thread Steven Heapy
Hi We have a 5metre grid of xyz cordinates over our municipality and I was wondering what is it possible way to automatically create watershed boundaries? We have fairly steep and undulating terrain, could this be done via eg vertical mapper? Will summarise results. cheers Steve _

MI-L Auto Update

2001-03-15 Thread Dave_Barnhart
I do very simple maps. solid colors only, up to 5 only colors. that said, I'd like to know how to update these on some type of automated basis. When I update my excel data through links and downloads, I'd like to open MapInfo and poof, all the colors are updated as well... thoughts?

FW: MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Sean Johnston
Alas, as Bill points out, the strict technical issues are probably the least important ones in this discussion. To the people who will ultimately decide the matter "who is close by or what percentage is rich or poor, what color they are" is virtually the *only* material issue. In the end, the who

RE: MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Straus, Ian
Mike, The essence of gerrymandering is in Bill's question, " Do you draw the boundary so as to politically separate them or do you draw it so that each region in that area is represented by a mix?" Using pencil and paper, play with an imaginary evenly distribute

RE: MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Neil Havermale
Bill and Mike - An hour - no way. I'll bet that 45 minutes before the Supreme Court rendered their opinion on the Florida thing the "plan" was well understood and the rails pre-greased. Have no doubt this a well organized effort. Once you commit to steal you only have so many minutes to get it

MI-L MI: Joining buffers to source points

2001-03-15 Thread Rob Batenburg (Robert Batenburg)
I have a table containing trap locations (traps) and a table of 200 metre buffers (buffs), one for each point in the traps table. I would like to assign each buffer an ID that is equivalent to the ID of the trap from which it was created. Unfortunately, the critters to be trapped are plentiful an

MI-L How do MapBasic Programmers use Help (*.chm) files?

2001-03-15 Thread Bill Thoen
Anyone have any tips on how best to use compiled hypertext help with MapBasic apps? These *.chm files are pretty nifty, and you can download the free HTML Help authoring kit from Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/download_main.htm), so this seems like a good way to

MI-L table>update column won't

2001-03-15 Thread Phillips, Andrew
I thought I'd updated a selection from a table with values from another table many times before, but for some reason the values are not updated, nor is an error returned. Both tables are editable and the structure of the fields of interest are float. Just to make sure I saved and packed both tabl

Re: MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Mike Hankins
I may have underestimated the time some, but it should and would not take weeks or months and have all of the lawsuits and such. I would use census blocks or block groups. Determine how many people are in the state. Find out how many districts to create. Divide to get a pop. per district to

Re: MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Bill Thoen
Mike Hankins wrote: > > Just a rant. Does anyone else find it amusing that the government is going > to spend millions of dollars and and probably hundreds to thousands of hours > to come up with biased district lines? Any one of us mappers could come up > with a fair boundary file free of bias

Re: MI-L topology, area calculations and the coincidence of lines

2001-03-15 Thread Derek_Snyder
Tim, If you are using MI Pro 6.0, try using the Enclose feature to create your regions. This may work easier and better than your manual digitizing method, and may prevent the problems that you are finding. Derek Snyder MapInfo Corporation Mail List:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

MI-L exporting to ArcView

2001-03-15 Thread Tim Warman
Hey Listers, I exported some shape files in NAD83 State Plane Coordinates (CA Zone V) and sent them to another consultant who uses ArcView. They want to use the files in lat/long coordinates, but are telling me that ArcView has no way of reprojecting files from State Plane to Lat/Long. They want

MI-L Adding Projections

2001-03-15 Thread Ted Florence
Can someone possibly tell me the steps one must undertake to assign a known projection to a digitized map in MI? For example, let's say I digitize a map that I know to be in Transverse projection. How do I tell MI that this series of lines etc. is actually in Transverse so that when I save the fil

RE: MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Lloyd, Earnest
Not only that, but think of all the law suits generated after the lines are drawn. I have one lawyer who has already asked me to consult on the GIS and data requirements needed to contest the findings before any districts have been published. As the Russian born comic use to say "What a country"

MI-L Using Aerial Photos

2001-03-15 Thread Ben Barton
Dear list, I need to use some aerial photos in MapInfo - my two main questions are: 1/ Can anyone recommend a good package that can be used to rectify photos and export them in a suitable format for MapInfo? 2/ How can I get multiple photos (or any other rasters for that matter) to display c

MI-L Congressional Redistricting

2001-03-15 Thread Mike Hankins
Just a rant. Does anyone else find it amusing that the government is going to spend millions of dollars and and probably hundreds to thousands of hours to come up with biased district lines? Any one of us mappers could come up with a fair boundary file free of bias in less than an hour per state

RE: MI-L topology, area calculations and the coincidence of lines

2001-03-15 Thread Juan Del valle
Hello evey one, I got a problem when i try to actualizate a dbms table, I guees the obdc MapInfo Win32 SQLServer Driver is damage. Maybe some one can help me with this driver. Thanks in advice Juan ___ List hosting provided

MI-L Population Center and Density

2001-03-15 Thread Ralph Noble
I am working with Census 2000 data. I have assigned all my tracts to their respective Zip codes, senate and house districts, counties, etc. Two questions I'm hoping someone can help answer for me: 1. In MapInfo Pro v6 and using the population data at the tract-level, can someone tell me how I

MI-L

2001-03-15 Thread PRICE, Bronwyn
Hello listers, I am trying to create a thematic map for a table which contains only height values, basically DTM data. The area I am looking at is islands with a lot of ocean within the map regions. In the table all the ocean regions naturally have a value of zero. The problem I am experiencing i

MI-L Re: Find Options for Proviewer Workspace

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Clute
Recently I asked listers the following question: I have a workspace that is accessed by a number of Proviewer users. In attempting to do a find on an address location the result is missing by an amount equal to what I believe are the default offsets one typically encounters in MI. I believe I n

MI-L Tools or Proposals for Editing THM-Files

2001-03-15 Thread Johannes . Boensmann
Hello Listers is there a tool or way to edit a thm-file. I am trying to create an individual values map with more than 200 values. Is there nything I could use? Thanks Johannes ___ List hosting provided by Directions Mag

MI-L Raster Layers in MapInfo Professional

2001-03-15 Thread William Tompkinson
consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. Dear All,=20 I am trying to create a seamless raster layer in MapInfo, which is = composed of about 30 raster tables. Bad things are happening to the = raster layers when I zoom in a

MI-L MapInfo Map template of Asia

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Metz
I am looking for a MapInfo map template of 1. the Asian continent (with country boundaries) 2. a regional map of China that can be incorporated into 1. that I can import into Microsoft Map (Excel). Can anybody help? Kind regards, Robert Metz __

Re: MI-L tracking softwares.

2001-03-15 Thread Gareth Hardman
Kaan, We here at Saturn Technologies (www.saturn-technologies.com) use a MapX-based application within our base-station software. We also build sophisticated on-board devices (ruggedised boxes that contain the GPS and on-board-memory). These can be connected to fuel-flow metres and a range of add