RE: MI-L Cor. 50 km clusters of point data

Have a look at demofuzz on directionsmag ftp site. * define a set of 'origin' points * define a set of 'target' points * define a distance function graphically (let say a ramp from 0 to 50 km, then zero; or a gate function from 0 to 50 km , depending on your needs) * if you need orientation from '

RE: MI-L Dll's + MapBasic : THANK YOU TO ALL!!

Thank you to everyone who assisted me with my question, I've got a load of great info, now I can spend some time really getting to grips with it! Once again a big thank you! Ben Crane __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wel

RE: MI-L RE: GISList: Protecting GIS data

Figuers wrote... >> can you imagine if all gis data were in a common, univeral format that could be fully read by any GIS program? and Bill Thoen wrote... >> Okay... I agree, and there is a market desire for it. But the implementation would make all the difference between success and failure.

MI-L MI-L: Saving workspaces through mapbasic

Hi all, I'm having trouble saving a workspace at the end of a process which is run, with that oh so useful error message "Unable to save workspace". Now i know that the workspace can be saved because immeadiately after the message, the user can go to File>>Save Workspace and this works fine. H

MI-L Using DIM in workspaces

I'm trying to do various things with workspaces and would like to find out what the limitations are for coding in workspaces. Doe's anyone know of information papers or have examples that I could look at to get a general idea of what can be achieved. I know this could all be done in MapBasic but

RE: MI-L MI-L: Saving workspaces through mapbasic

Appearently MapInfo has some trouble saving workspaces from MapBasic. You can prevent this error by saving your workspace thru a command string. Try this: ... If logworkspace = true then strworkspace = filesaveasdlg("","","WOR","Save Workspace") If not strworkspace =

RE: MI-L MI-L: Saving workspaces through mapbasic

Peter, Thanks for your solution. We too have just been struggling with this problem this evening for the past few hours. In our instance, we found that the "Unable to save workspace" error occured when the workspace contained a query result (temporary table). The "Save Workspace" command and "Ru

MI-L Draging Maps into Microsoft Word.

Dear All I am currently using Mapinfo V6.5 and Microsoft Word 2000. I am trying to drag a map window into word with the scale of the map remaining in word. If I use the drag map window in Mapinfo, you get an unscaled map in Word. Then you can change the scale in word but it does not seem to work,

MI-L String Functions

Hello, I am looking for a documented overview of MapInfo string functions. The help menu is bogus as well as the Ref Guide. I want to do several things: 1. Take a character column with commas and numbers and covert into a decimal (8,3) column without losing the values Example: Character

MI-L Problem creating points.

Hello all. I am trying to write an app that takes a table of points and maps them. The problem that I am having is that all the points are on top of each other. I cannot figure out what is happening. Here is the sub that I am using: dim iCPLoop as integer dim iNumCP as integer iNum

RE: MI-L Problem creating points.

David, You can create points for a table with just a single line of code. Try This Update sNewTabName Set obj = CreatePoint(sLongColumn, sLatColumn) Tim Fast Pioneer Hi-Bred International -Original Message- From: Scott, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002

Re: MI-L Problem creating points.

David... Check you Coordinate System!! I have had this problem before and ensure that the coordinates you want to create points for are created in an environment with the correct system. 1. Work out what coordinate system the coordinates relate to. 2. Try changing the tables projection. 3. Try s

Re: MI-L String Functions

You first need to convert your character strings into values that can be recognized as a number before you convert the type from char() to decimal(). The string "12,34,56" is not a number, and so becomes 0.0 when you try to convert it to one. What you need to do is replace the commas with the app

Re: MI-L copyright and protecting data sets.

I think you forgot the most important reason to protect data (maybe it was d)?)- So that the people who risk the time, money, and effort in creating value that didn't exist before get rewarded for it. I'm sure it would be great for "the public" if all GIS data were allowed to be copied fre

RE: MI-L Draging Maps into Microsoft Word.

In word you can set-up a map. If you go to Insert > Object a little dialog while appear from which you need to select the source of the object. If you look for the entry "MapInfo 6.5.0 Map" and select it. This will load up a mini mapinfo session inside your document, into which you can load

Re: MI-L Re: : Protecting GIS data, reply

Yes, I can imaginewe would have to wait for all GIS data to come from the government, because no business person in his/her right mind would ever create a commercial data set Or we could resort to forced-labor camps in order to get our TIGER files updated;-) Regards, Chris Chris

MI-L GML and NTF converters

Hello All, I realise this is a much discussed topic, so I apologise for re-visiting but I was wondering if anyone could comment in particular on the use of FME for conversion of Ordnance Survey NTF and GML data? TIA Kate - Li

MI-L New 360 degree image type for GIS

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MI-L copyright and protection

chris wrote "A copywrite is meant to protect the EFFORT of the creator...words, methods, and code are just tools the creator uses to create value. The underlying principle is that he who creates value should own the rights to itwhether that value is a story, a symphony, an invention (paten

MI-L site links

I have invested some efforts to collect facts. I have put them in a certain format, a Html page. If I have learned the lesson, I can copyright the page format but not the contents. Rest reassured, in any case all is free! I have identified some 45 sites that offer free applications for MapInfo an

MI-L Offset

Hi all Is there an offset tool in MapInfo or Map basic. I have to offset a line and the only way I have thought about creating an offset is by creating a buffer and moving the line to the buffer. ANy suggestions would be great _

MI-L segmenting

Hi all, This one is hard to explain. I have collected some road information out in the field in chainages (for example, wedge road first chainage is 0 to 200 second is 200 to 600 etc). When I came back to the office I found out that wedge road finished 200 metres shorter than I had is and that

Re: MI-L MI - calculate area of a region

In a message dated 4/30/2002 2:10:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks in Advance... > I have a map, registered properly, and I want to calculate the area (sq. > mi.) > of a region. I've outlined the region and selected it, but cannot figure > out > how to determ

MI-L Accessing SpatialWare from MapX

Me again, I am trying to access a SpatialWare SQL Server table from MapX. I am getting an error "1011, Unable to Access Dataset". Any idea what I am doing wrong here? Here is my code sample: Dim lInfo As Object Dim SQL As String Form1.Show Set lInfo = CreateObject("mapx.layerinfo.4") lInfo.T