RE: MI-L MB - Mappershortcut visibility under MI Runtime

2001-06-15 Thread Peter Zyczynski
Thanks Peter, I was missing the ID 17 as you rightly suggested. PS Spooky - If you re-read my original email I misspelled it with id, I guess I must've subconsciously already known the answer :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

MI-L: Demographic data and boundaries for Eastern Europe

2001-06-15 Thread Colin Henderson
Listers, I am in urgent need of demographic data and related boundaries for the following Eastern European countries: Turkey Czech Republic Hungary Poland I need breakdown of population by age, working population, household info, income info (if available), and any other information that

Re: MI-L: Demographic data and boundaries for Eastern Europe

2001-06-15 Thread frank . thomasftr
Colin, I would bet a good start for the data is GfK at www.gfk.de (there is also an English language version of the site). If you can change formats, DCW has all you need, if the file is from later than 1992. Can you send an asnwer to the list of the answers you gt? Thank you. Dr. Frank

Re: MI-L: Demographic data and boundaries for Eastern Europe

2001-06-15 Thread frank . thomasftr
Colin, I would bet a good start for the data is GfK at www.gfk.de (there is also an English language version of the site). If you can change formats, DCW has all you need, if the file is from later than 1992. Can you send an asnwer to the list of the answers you gt? Thank you. Dr. Frank

RE: MI-L MapInfo labels in MapX

2001-06-15 Thread Burkmar Richard
John, The problem seems to be that geosets don't support label properties on a feature by feature basis - they only support basic table level label properties - and then only for the 'default' attribute. You can do a search on 'labels' at the MapX discussion forum (reached from

SUM: MI-L Eastern Europe datasets

2001-06-15 Thread Colin Henderson
Listers, Thanks for all the help, here is a summary of the sites offered to me. I would like to thank everyone individually, but the response was overwhelming. so if you sent me info, then thanks for your help! I found a demographic site which has tons of info:

MI-L Delete records from MI Table

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Whittam
This must surely be simple? I've tried truncate table scot_area in the MapBasic window, but MI didn't understand truncate. Cheers - Andrew _ Andrew Whittam Senior Business Analyst insight@TMW Direct Tel: 020-7349 4087 Fax: 020-7349 4001 List Sponsor

MI-L Grabber not working

2001-06-15 Thread Richard Dibley
Hi, I have a map window containing several large contour layers and I am finding that the grabber tool is intermittently not working with this map. For example if I zoom in on a particular part of the map and then select the grabber tool it may not work. If I then change the zoom and try

Re: MI-L Grabber not working

2001-06-15 Thread Milo van der Linden
Turn of Snap, this will do the trick regards, Milo van der Linden, netGIS Lemmingweide 8 3437TT Nieuwegein Kvk. Utrecht nr. 30166407 ABN Amro 57.64.10.535 Fax. +31(0)848617820 mob.+31(0)616598808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Richard Dibley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: MI-L Grabber not working - answer

2001-06-15 Thread Richard Dibley
Before I get six million answers, thanks to Milo van der Linden and Scott McVicar who correctly suggested that if you turn snap mode off the grabber will work OK. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Dibley Sent: 15 June 2001

MI-L re outer join

2001-06-15 Thread Windeler, David
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. To home it may concern: Just a quick question that hopefully someone can answer. I have recently completed an outer join to find all records that are not in

MI-L mapinfo skills

2001-06-15 Thread GIS Clerk
my job is to maintain a casastral base using MapInfo. in the context of a wage/job comparison, i received the following comments from a human resources consultant and would appreciate feedback: 1) MapInfo is described in the GIS world as a low end program compared to other GIS programs e.g. ARc

MI-L Editing Problem

2001-06-15 Thread Niemiec, Neal
I have a table of State boundaries and I have created a 10 mile buffer around the whole U.S. boundary. What I am trying to do is extend the State boundaries out to the buffer. The problem is I convert the State file to polylines and extend two new lines from the state boundary to the buffer and

MI-L 3D Projection

2001-06-15 Thread Curto, Justin
I am currently designing a global network of shipping routes. I am finding that when I try to draw the shortest part between two ports, using a straight line, the 2D view does not account for the curvature of the earth. This is resulting in incorrect distances. Is there any way that I can

Re: MI-L DDEPoke a MapBasic variable to a VBA Access variable

2001-06-15 Thread Milo van der Linden
Jakob, I went into this, but didn't dare to go into DDE. The solution I use might seem a bit strange, but I send almost every command to MapInfo via Visual Basic via the object.do . The only code I compile as an MBX is the menu structure! ha ha! The other way around, I found a dll which lets me

Re: MI-L mapinfo skills

2001-06-15 Thread CDR Group
GIS Clerk We also have to put up with GIS Snobbery.!!! In the UK we have hundreds of users using MapInfo for engineering, layout and legal mapping. Is the HR Consultant comparing MapInfo with CAD or GIS.? All software has more functions than you ever need. Match the requirements of the

MI-L Puerto Rico Data

2001-06-15 Thread Kathi_Conklin
Greeting All, I am looking for Puerto Rico data, does anyone know of a reasonably-priced (or free) data source? Thank in Advance, Kathi ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To

RE: MI-L MapInfo skills

2001-06-15 Thread Sinam Al-Khafaji
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. We are moving dangerously close to the old adage To ASSUME makes an 'ASS out of U and ME. Assumption 1: MapInfo is described in the GIS world as a low end

RE: MI-L mapinfo skills

2001-06-15 Thread Feinberg, Harold
Certainly this consultant has very limited knowledge of the GIS World. Having started my GIS career with High End software and after four years took a job where MI is the shop standard. After being deprogrammed from the retoric and marketing of the ESRI cult it became apparent that the myth of

RE: MI-L mapinfo skills

2001-06-15 Thread Waardenburg, Dennis
I've always thought it ironic that ESRI software has a reputation for being so complex and advanced, because that reputation is primarily due to the fact that ESRI products have always been clunky, user-unfriendly and bug-ridden. There is a significant experience/time barrier to entering the

Re: MI-L mapinfo skills

2001-06-15 Thread Marc Pelletier
At 08:18 AM 6/15/2001 -0700, you wrote: my job is to maintain a casastral base using MapInfo. in the context of a wage/job comparison, i received the following comments from a human resources consultant and would appreciate feedback: As others have mentioned, it should depend more on your skill

RE: MI-L Editing Problem

2001-06-15 Thread Feinberg, Harold
I think I understand your question. Try extending each states boundry to the ten-mile buffer by autotracing (using the polygon tool) the one boundry for a given state then jump across to digitize the buffer, closing the polygon at your state boundry where you started. Convert the state boundry to

MI-L Ver 6.5 TIN parameter question

2001-06-15 Thread Bill Thoen
On page 222 (page 232 in Adobe PDF) of the ver 6.5 Users Guide it says about the Distance parameter in the TIN thematic map creation: The Distance value controls the output. For non-zero distance values, only edges or triangles contained within a sphere centered at mesh vertices are output. This