MI-L MB - SelChangedHandler and flickering custom toolbar

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Zyczynski
Hi List, I have a fairly simple problem that has more to do with aesthetics than anything else, I'm sure that someone has come across this already. THE SCENARIO: - I have a custom toolbar named MyToolbar, and I enable/disable it's buttons based on the user's current selection. I

MI-L Regarding Dynamic Segmentation feature on MapInfo

2001-04-23 Thread Mohamed Salauddin
Hi List, Is there any utility available on MapInfo which will do dynamic segmentation. Thanks in advance Mohamed Salauddin GIS Engineer Tata Infotech Limited India Definition: Dynamic segmentation is a two-step process performed on a spatial data set comprised of linear features. First, a

MI-L US equivalent of QAS DLL's

2001-04-23 Thread Gareth Hardman
Sirs, As part of our SENTRY AVLS, we use QAS (Quick Adress Software) DLL's = which provide us with the ability to (a) translate the Lat/Long position = of the vehicles (as provided by the onboard GPS) to British National = Grid co-ordinates, and then (b) to use this BNG position to identify

MI-L Overlapping Boundaries

2001-04-23 Thread Matthew Tamea
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. I wonder if anyone can help me out of my confusion... I have a table of radio boundaries for all BBC and independent radio - these overlap so when you show

RE: MI-L CAI Database Problem

2001-04-23 Thread Eric
You may write a function like : Function concat(firstime As Boolean, val As String, sep As String) As String Static Concatstr As String Concatstr = IIf(firstime, , IIf(Concatstr = , val, Concatstr + sep + val)) concat = Concatstr End Function And use a query like : SELECT

MI-L MI: Modifying table structures in batch

2001-04-23 Thread Aidan Power
Dear listers, I am pretty new to MapInfo and so I am not sure how easy or hard what I'm trying to do actually is. I have over 200 dwg files which contain approx 23 layers in each file. I want to merge all the files into one for each layer, thus ending up with 23 MapInfo Tab files. The way

MI-L Page fault

2001-04-23 Thread Nick Hall
Listers, A client of ours is using an application on top of MapInfo (V4.1) that keeps crashing out with a error message that says MapInfo has crashed with a 'page fault' error. It seems to happen when specific objects in a large table are selected for editing. Any ideas on a cure? Apart from

SUM: MI-L Projection dialog does not show up in Universal Translator

2001-04-23 Thread Lavoie, Claude
The problem: Trying to import an AutoCAD DWG into MI 6.0 under W2K (with full administrative rights) through Universal Translator. I select the source file, but when I press the PROJECTION button, the PROJECTION dialog does not show up front; I can toggle to it using CTRL-TAB though. I

MI-L Tiger file translation help

2001-04-23 Thread Mark Clute
I need some quick help! I'm sure this has beenasked and answered a dozen time, but lets make it a baker's dozen: I have some tiger files (rt1, rt2, etc) that I need to move to MI for a redistricting meeting late this afternoon! Pleeease tell me you can get me there from here! How do I

MI-L RE: Overlapping Boundaries

2001-04-23 Thread Matthew Tamea
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. Whoops Sorry, but due to a complete cock-up with my e-mail I'm having to send this again! -Original Message- From: Matthew Tamea Sent: 23 April

MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Bill Thoen
Here's an interesting mapping problem that was in this Sunday's Ask Marilyn (newspaper) column. Say you come upon a sign that says the following: Paris4658 miles Moscow 5438 miles Tel Aviv 6681 miles Hong Kong7878 miles Sydney 8746 miles Johannesburg 9092 miles How

RE: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread jonathan . a . watson
Bill, Perhaps the easiest way would be to map using circles and a world map. Find the map scale, use a compass, and draw circles of the radius in miles indicated on the map. Do that for all the cities, and you'll figure out that the point is wherever all the circles intersect. Jonathan Watson

RE: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Van der Lugt, Peter
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. The most accurate measurement from a globe would be using Great Circles drawn from the given cities. The large distances from each city on a projected map are

RE: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Troy Wiora
I think the best answer would be that the sign is located in an airport... : ) Troy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/23/2001 11:18:50 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Kent Hargesheimer
If you had the proper projection on a flat map, you could do it with radii. You would need the azimuthal equidistant projection. This projection horribly distorts the shapes sizes of the land masses, but the straight line distances are true. Anyone figure it out yet? I'm inching to know.

Re: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Kay
That is far to simple, it's so easy! I've been there many times. Answer = Totally and completely lost! ... Bill Thoen wrote: Here's an interesting mapping problem that was in this Sunday's Ask Marilyn (newspaper) column. Say you come upon a sign that says the following: Paris

RE: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Jacques Paris
I seem to remember a road sign replicate in the Maine (or was it the Vermont?) pavilion of Expo 67 with similar information. Yes, I was already around in those days! For sure it cannot be in a metric system country, except perhaps in an airport, to court imperialistic passers by!. Jacques

RE: MI-L A Mapping Puzzle for Savants

2001-04-23 Thread Bill Huber
At 03:27 PM 4/23/01 -0400, KH wrote: If you had the proper projection on a flat map, you could do it with radii. You would need the azimuthal equidistant projection. This projection horribly distorts the shapes sizes of the land masses, but the straight line distances are true. Nope. Only