RE: MI-L Off topic Processing Software

2002-02-01 Thread Colin Henderson
There is also a good package called Virtuos, I can;'t remember what it costs but I do not that it is expensive. I also can't seem to find the web address for the company either! Sorry! -Original Message- From: Cameron Crum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 January 2002 22:11 To: [EMAIL

RE: MI-L RE: help on projection/Coordinates

2002-02-01 Thread Bill & Lorraine Donaldson
Rondolph, You need to also set you longitudes to be negative. A way to remember this is: 0 - 180WMinus Longitude 0 - 180EPositive Longitude 0 - 90N Positive Latitude 0 - 90S Negative Latitude Regards, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: MI-L Can I tell whether DBMS support installed from mapbasic

2002-02-01 Thread Paul . CRISP
Mark - You need to use Server_DriverInfo - see the help. It lists all the available data toolkits installed for MI. HTH Paul Crisp Syntegra Direct: 0191 461 4522 Mobile: 0776 414 3762 Fax: (0191) 461 1959 Innovation Place Metro Riverside Park Delta Bank Road Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE11 9DJ

Re[2]: MI-L MBBuilder: RAD Tool for MapInfo MapBasic

2002-02-01 Thread Edward Smirnov
Hello Scott, Friday, February 01, 2002, 2:31:59 AM, you wrote: SM> Just curious... Does anyone know how MBBuilder compares with SM> DiaBuilder? SM> Based on their descriptions they appear to target the same niche SM> yet MBBuilder costs $350 U.S. and DiaBuilder costs only $45 U.S. SM> http://www

MI-L Illegal operation - Help

2002-02-01 Thread Dyan C. Catamaran
Hi users Mow I have the project almost ready to print the draft layouts I got a surprise. Mi MI (V6.0+VM2.5) is crashing when I try to print a layout, with some VM grids through Adobe Distiller. The message is: System Error ! Floating -point execution: Invalid Mapinfow has illegal operation

RE: MI-L Regions vs. Polylines

2002-02-01 Thread Yannick Doiron
Try table_smooth.mbx in the www.directionsmag.com/ tools section. hope it will help you, Yannick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Gutiw Sent: January 31, 2002 12:37 PM To: MapInfo-L (E-mail) Subject: MI-L Regions vs. Polylines Is t

MI-L RE: GISList: Vector to Raster

2002-02-01 Thread Heath A. Butler
Instead of converting the vector data to a raster image, has anyone considered compressing the vector file such that all of the attribute information is retained and the integrity of the data is not compromised? There is such a tool, called iMAP - that compresses/suppresses vector data files by u

RE: MI-L Regions vs. Polylines

2002-02-01 Thread Jacques Paris
Table_smooth smoothes only polylines and does it well, no doubt about it. But what is its usefulness for smoothing regions? Of course if you have a single region, or well separated regions, you could convert them to polylines, smooth them and convert them back to regions, and you will get smoothe

RE: MI-L .eoo to MI

2002-02-01 Thread Lathrop, Travis
I have attempted to translate a .e00 file into a MI table. My problem is that when I use the Universal Translator to identify the eoo file as my source I am unable to find the corresponding format type in the drop down box. What am I missing here? Travis Lathrop Intercarrier Services 913/762-48

MI-L Moving Labels

2002-02-01 Thread Matthew E. Hays
We have a rather large real-estate map of a metro area. This map is broken into submarkets. Now when we do a new layout of a new map we have to relabel all the streets. Is there a way to auto label all the streets and put markers on the hiway centroids with in the view automatically? ___

MI-L Access 2000 read only

2002-02-01 Thread Ewa Plachta
Dear All, I started to use Access 2000 and converted the 97'database into 2000. Unfortunately I cannot upload the MI table through ODBC, as the = converted database is read-only. How to make read-only into read-write in the database properties. When I = check the properties of the database in t

SUM: MI-L MapInfo & Networks

2002-02-01 Thread Karen Purdy
Dear Listers, many thanks for all your comments. My original question is below, and the replies in full below that, but in summary... There are a few people using MapInfo with Citrix, and the general feeling seems to be it 'may' work in a Terminal Server Environment. However, the official word

MI-L True type fonts for MapXtreme

2002-02-01 Thread Catherine Lessard
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with creating their own True Type Font files (in Font lab or Corel...) and using them with MapXtreme? I would like to know if there are any special settings or procedure for the font to be readable by MapXtreme. Our attempts so far have been unsuccessfull

MI-L length of an arc

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Taylor
Hello!  I have a table with lines, polylines and arcs. I'm trying to calculate the length of an arc.     SQL Select     select columns  ObjectLen(obj, "m") Positive values are  returned in browser for a line, polyline ... but the arc returns a length value of 0   According to  Help menu O

RE: MI-L length of an arc

2002-02-01 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Peter, I don't know which help file you're looking at, but the following is from the MapBasic (v6) help file: The ObjectLen( ) function returns the length of an object expression. Note that only line and polyline objects have length values greater than zero; to measure the circumference of

RE: MI-L length of an arc

2002-02-01 Thread Jacques Paris
It is true that on MI6.5 a print objectlen(selection.obj,"m") will returns 0 but if I "converttopline" it, it will have a >0 length. Ouf, at least the arc object exists in the right place...and this could be a way to estimate arc length.. The MB 6.5 help file has a different explanation: "Note

Re: RE: MI-L length of an arc

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Crossley
Perhaps you could try the expression ObjectLen(ConvertToPLine(obj),"m") in the query? R >Hello! > I have a table with lines, polylines and arcs. I'm trying to calculate the >length of an arc. >SQL Select >select columns ObjectLen(obj, "m") >Positive values are returned in brows

MI-L Global telco data needed

2002-02-01 Thread john . x . vitiello
Hello, I'm in search of an inexpensixe data set that gives lat/lon (or a mappable point in Mapinfo format) for the telephone country code and city code pairs for perhaps the top 5000 cities throughout the world. Geographic precision isn't particularly important. As an example; For country code

MI-L Info on Server_Execute() results? REDUX

2002-02-01 Thread Bill Thoen
I was looking for a way to query SQL Server via ODBC from MapBasic and get the number of rows produced by the query. Apparently the only ways to do this with MapBasic are: 1.) Run the query twice; once to return count(*), and a second time to retrieve the data. 2.) Download the table into MapInfo

MI-L: MapBasic Question

2002-02-01 Thread ALICIA COX
I am going through a student workbook to learn mapbasic. I have found the section on adding buttons to current ButtonPads, I have attempted this but it is not showing up on that ButtonPad (attempting to add an open workspace button onto the auto-opening Tool ButtonPad). It says that it is com

MI-L SUM: Updating Access tables

2002-02-01 Thread Norman, Malcolm
Hello everyone, apologies for the delay in providing the sum of replies but this project got put on the backburner and I have only just got back to it. My original question was as follows: > We are using MapInfo's BS7666 Toolkit to produce a land and property > gazetteer and this uses an

MI-L Internal Error 34621

2002-02-01 Thread Norman, Malcolm
Hi Listers, can anyone enlighten me on what 'internal error 34621' means. I have searched on the archives and can find some one asking the same question but no answers. This is the scenario: we have an mbx that sets up corporate / departmental menus and catalogues as well as drop