MI-L MapInfo Telecom Solutions

2002-08-27 Thread Anirban
Hi Listers, We are working with GE Smallworld Network Solutions for Telecom sector. Can somebody send me some articles(document,ppt anything) which in brief provides information on capabilities of MapInfo in Telecom sector. I have gone through the MapInfo site in detail. So please send me informa

RE: MI-L Dual Processor Support?

2002-08-27 Thread Stanley K. Johnston
My guess would be no, as this would involve an entire rewrite of the application from the ground up in some cases. Stan Johnston Geologist -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Van Etten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 27, 2002 11:17 AM To: MapInfo List Serve (E-mail) Subject

MI-L address matching

2002-08-27 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
hey, does anyone know the best algorithm for address matching, or a breakdown of the one MapInfo uses? at the moment i've got all my street data in Access in a FromLeft, ToLeft, FromRight, ToRight, X1, Y1, X2, Y2 format. the X1, X2 etc refers to the start/end points of the given street segme

Re: MI-L binary encoding with MB, reply

2002-08-27 Thread Figuers
Fortan is a powerful language for number crunching (if it was good enough to take man to the moon, then is is good enough for me). It is quick and dirty, and you can do lots with it. It is fast to code (you do not have to declare every thing), but you have to remember that array counters star

Re: MI-L Creating a table with eastings and northings- MI 5.5- FIXED!

2002-08-27 Thread Bob Hudson
Thank you to all who made suggestions. I followed the advice, and now have exactly the same data I started out with- although it looks so much prettier with all those decimals displayed. DOH :-) Bob Hudson Archaeology Department, University of Sydney, Australia. http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au

MI-L Creating a table with eastings and northings- MI 5.5

2002-08-27 Thread Bob Hudson
I have a text file of locations in which my eastings and northings are accurate to 7 decimal points- eg 95.5656567 degrees. When I open it as a Mapinfo table, the easting and northing columns default to Float type, which effectively gives me only accuracy to 4 decimal points, as Float only appears

[Fwd: MI-L What are the best MapInfo tool sites]

2002-08-27 Thread Alberto Cuevas
I have a comment In the page of directionmagsFee tools to download, when it is a mbx, it can't be downloadedonly the zip files can... I thinks that's a problem or may be a must do something else...please tell wath to do Alberto Cuevas --- Begin Message --- Sherman & Listers, We

RE: MI-L What are the best MapInfo tool sites

2002-08-27 Thread Jeff Koncz
Sherman & Listers, We are taking note and appreciate the feedback. We'll return the search and recent uploads functionality back to the Free Tools section. If anyone has suggestions or ideas on how we can make this a better resource for the MapInfo community please let us know. Email [EMAIL PR

RE: MI-L binary encoding with MB

2002-08-27 Thread Sherman Garinger
Is that nautical mile or perhaps US mile. I personally think we should use COBOL. Regards Sherman Garinger NRM Corp At 01:38 PM 08/27/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I doubt it, at least not "blows away from a mile" > >-Message d'origine- >De : Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. >Envoyé : 2

RE: MI-L What are the best MapInfo tool sites

2002-08-27 Thread Sherman Garinger
Hi Jacques, You have a nice site which I used many a time. I was refering to the lack of sites offering utilities from lots of different people. I do hope the good people at Directions monitor this discussion group and take note. Sherman Garinger NRM Corp At 12:56 PM 08/27/2002 -0400, you wro

RE: MI-L binary encoding with MB

2002-08-27 Thread Gilbert, Antoine
I doubt it, at least not "blows away from a mile" -Message d'origine- De : Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : 27 août, 2002 13:21 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: MI-L binary encoding with MB Hello Cameron, Can you direct m

RE: MI-L binary encoding with MB

2002-08-27 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Cameron, Can you direct me to any fair-comparison testing results to support this claim? Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: Cameron Crum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 5:49 PM To: bob young;

RE: MI-L Projection/Version woes Summary

2002-08-27 Thread Cameron Crum
As it turns out, MI 6.0 doesn't know what projection 29 is so adding it to the prj file will do no good. This has been verified. It seems my only option is to upgrade which I have done and solved my problem. Thanks for all the advice. Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Projecti

Re: MI-L binary encoding with MB

2002-08-27 Thread Cameron Crum
Or for real speed and number crunching, you could use Fortran. Blows away C and C++ by a mile. Cameron bob young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI Karl > > If you are doing any serious number crunching you are best to code up > the bulk of the work in a C, C++ or Pascal DLL. Interface with

Re: MI-L converter....

2002-08-27 Thread Sherman Garinger
Hi Chris, I use the MGRS convertor offered for free at Mentor Software. It converts from Military Grid - Lat, Long - UTM in different elipses. It seems to do the trick for me when I have to do just a few points. I have never come accross one that will batch process points though. Let me know

MI-L What are the best MapInfo tool sites

2002-08-27 Thread Sherman Garinger
Hi list, What are the best sites for finding various tools for Mapinfo. Directionsmag use to have one of the best sites until they changed their format. Now you can't search for a specific tool name or the most recent uploads. They make you wade through ten or so pages of unalphabetized tools t

Re: MI-L binary encoding with MB

2002-08-27 Thread bob young
HI Karl If you are doing any serious number crunching you are best to code up the bulk of the work in a C, C++ or Pascal DLL. Interface with this every second or so from MapBasic. This allows the interface to be MapBasic but gives you machine code speed. Just a do wile loop in MapBasic with no co

Re: MI-L Dual Processor Support?

2002-08-27 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
It will only use 1 CPU, so the answer is no. But this on the other side means you have lots of processing power left for running other applications. Quite nice. Kind regards Uffe Kousgaard www.routeware.dk - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Van Etten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MapInfo L

MI-L How to make a Subdivision

2002-08-27 Thread Alberto Cuevas
Hi all Thanks for your quick responses ... I think it was necesary more information about it... I'm using MapInfo 6.5 and MapBasic and i know how to split a poligon and divide by two...but what I need is a suggestion about the better metod to do it.. I mean...what it the best way...doing

Re: MI-L Indexing query

2002-08-27 Thread bob young
Dear Bill I am not aware of there being a maximum. In terms of an optimum the less fields you index on the quicker an index will be updated. However your application might gain enormously by having more indexes so it is difficult to talk of an optimum. In general our experience is that adding

MI-L Dual Processor Support?

2002-08-27 Thread Jeffrey Van Etten
Does anybody know if MapInfo supports Dual Processors yet? Regards, Jeffrey Van Etten ++ GIS Specialist Bus Priority and Traffic Enforcement TfL - Street Management MWB Business Exchange 10 Greycoat Place Westminster SW1P 1SB Tel: 0207 65

MI-L columns in an excel spreadsheet not appearing in MapInfo

2002-08-27 Thread Driver, Greg 9434
Listers, I'm trying to open an excel spreadsheet in MapInfo but I'm having a problem with a couple of the fields. One is created by concatenating 5 other columns =CONCATENATE(N13," ",O13," ",P13,"/",Q13,"/",R13) and the other is using the Text function =TEXT(H7,"dd-mmm"). When the spreadsheet i

MI-L Indexing query

2002-08-27 Thread Data Directions
I have searched the MapInfo manuals and knowledge base but cannot find an answer to the following: Is there an optimal (or maximum) number of indexes that can be applied to columns within a MapInfo table before their use is ineffective. I seem to recall a maximum of three indexes per table, but

MI-L SUM : Tiff World to .tab

2002-08-27 Thread Colin Henderson
Many thanks to all who respnded to this request. There were too many to thank individually! Once again the power of the list impresses! There are many solutions available, several of which are available from the downloads section of directionsmag.com - I went for the tfwread program which fill