MI-L Creating a MapInfo plug-in???

2001-03-20 Thread Bryce Smith
Hi All, I am looking at programming my own plug-in for MapInfo as a project at university. I have looked inside the MrSid dll and the ER Mapper dll's and have not found any generic format. This leaves me to question, How does MapInfo call the dll's?? For example, with the MrSid plug-in: The

MI-L WINGS GIS to MapInfo

2001-03-20 Thread Stokes, Jonathan (J)
Hello is anyone aware of a WINGS .imp fromat converter. MapInfo would be nice but i can cope with things like .dxf/shp etc etc thanks Jonathan Jonathan Stokes Binnie Black Veatch * (+44) 01737 774 155 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING - THIS E-MAIL TRANSMISSION IS CONFIDENTIAL. This message has

Re: MI-L Junk email

2001-03-20 Thread Justin Elzik
I'm sure there is a good reason, but why doesn't everyone change from a mailing list to a web based forum. There are many free and very reliable services including www.ezboard.com. People wouldn't be recieving ANY e-mail. No posssiblitiy of viri etc. etc. If every forum changed to a mailing

Re: MI-L Junk email - another bit of advice...

2001-03-20 Thread Justin Elzik
If you do have a problem with spam then do not reply to the e-mails woth a request to be removed, even if the message says thats what you should do to get removed. By doing this you are just confirming that your e-mail address is "live". A better solution is to send a fake "undeliverable"

MI-L Solution for Universal Translator (UT) batch process

2001-03-20 Thread data_solutions
For all of those mapinfo users frustrated by the Universal Translator (UT) utility not having a batch process. I finally got around to needing to run the UT as a batch process for several thousand files. It's a 2 step process to generate a mapping file from the mapinfo file to the shape

MI-L MapInfo and Thomas guide Grids

2001-03-20 Thread Isaac Wiley
Hello all, Has anyone seen, developed, heard of etc. a grid that matches that of the 'Thomas Guide Grid' by Thomas guide maps. Or would anyone have ideas on developing a grid that matches the existing Thomas guide grid that covers the San Francisco Bay area. The grid would need to be 1.4" =

MI-L Mapbasic WWW-Courses

2001-03-20 Thread geografica
THERE IS SOMEBODY THERE THAT CAN GIVE AN INTERNET MAPBASIC COURSE matias valenzuela www.geografica.cl f : 56-32-991632 ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail

MI-L Temporary Shutdown

2001-03-20 Thread Lloyd, Earnest
Is there a way I can temporarily stop my list service while I am on military service? I want it to start back up when I return. Earnest R. Lloyd Senior Research Associate LB Realty Advisors, Inc. 8750 North Central Expressway Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75231-6437 PH: 214/989-0810 e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: MI-L Junk email

2001-03-20 Thread Caroline Hilton
We went through all of this last time web-based notice boards were mentioned, and I for one would hate it. Downloading messages in one go and then reading through and deleting them at my leisure is the way I spend many a morning, and having to stay online to do that (without a permanent

MI-L Un-Installing Client

2001-03-20 Thread Simon Mawson
Dear All I am having touble uninstalling MI Pro version 5.0 (client) from a networked PC. There is no information in the user manuals and have not found any on the web Despite best efforts networked PC still recognises workspaces and tables and runs the software over the network. Can anyone

MI-L thomas brothers grid, reply

2001-03-20 Thread Figuers
I do not have information about the current digital grid, but here is info that I developed in the early 1990's just when they were creating the digital maps (in the san francisco bay area). Prior to the mid-1990's (exact date unknown), all thomas brother maps were on hand created bases.

MI-L Spans to MI

2001-03-20 Thread Dan_Page
Are there any translators out there that will convert Spans VEC/VEH files to MI format? TIA, Dan ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

Re: MI-L Text Scaling

2001-03-20 Thread tigi
Martyn Quite true, Managing text labels in MI is very clumsy. What I do is to create a separate layer for the text things. Depending on the final scale the map is to be printed , I adjust the text size. This means if I two standard scales ie 20K and 50K I keep two layers with appropriate lable

MI-L duplicate lines

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Pelletier
Hello all, Anyone know of a utility for deleting duplicate lines/polylines? Must be freeware, work in 4.1. cheers Marc Pelletier ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe,

MI-L Parameters for Lambert Conformal Conic (modified for Belgium 1972)

2001-03-20 Thread Greener, Simon
Hi, Does anyone know how to access the parameters that Mapinfo have used for the Lambert Conformal Conic (modified for Belgium 1972) projection (Number 19 in their list of projections)? Or for that matter any of the projection parameters? Thanks, Simon

RE: MI-L duplicate lines

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Pelletier
At 02:52 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote: It is called SKIMALL, has a doc about strategies to deal with "duplicates" Thanks, Jacques, Once again, you're my hero. Marc ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine |

RE: MI-L Text Scaling

2001-03-20 Thread Hendrick, Dawn
Hi Martyn There is another add-on product which handles scaled excellently! This is the GeoBasemap Mapping Systems product from Exa-Min Technologies As their website (www.geobasemap.com) says: Standardise Map Presentation GeoBasemap maintains a database code for each map object and an

Fw: MI-L Parameters for Lambert Conformal Conic (modified for Belgium 1972 )

2001-03-20 Thread Cliff Mugnier
Simon, The Lambert 1972 for Belgium is: Reference Ellipsoid = International 1924 a = 6,378,388 m 1/f = 297 Lower Parallel = 49* 50' 00" Upper Parallel = 51* 10' 00" Latitude of Grid Origin = 50* 47' 57.704" Central Parallel of Origin = 50* 30' 05.7104" Central Meridian = 4* 21'

MI-L MapBasic SQL problem

2001-03-20 Thread Prescott, Christopher (DEH)
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Hi, Is anybody able to figure out what is wrong with the following piece of code? When I execute in a MapBasic 6 program it fails with the following error

MI-L MI: Polar Stereographic Projection

2001-03-20 Thread ~Declan Troy
Mappers, I'd appreciate some advice on importing some .eoo files that are reported to be in Polar Stereographic projection with a standard parallel at 60N. The knowledge base at MapInfo.com indicates that the Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system has 4 zones, 2 at each pole. When I

MI-L Are you low on ink or paper???

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