RE: MI-L Vertical Mapper: Max. number of points for interpolation

2003-01-10 Thread Lawley, Russell S
Catherine, hi.. 1.8 million is a lot and i am not sure whether it is do-able (i rarely get beyond 0.5 million points in my work... i hope that someone from Marconi will contact you .. northwood certainly used to be V good at watching this list...) THE ONE area where i am dissappointed with VM

Re: MI-L Vertical Mapper: Max. number of points for interpolation

2003-01-10 Thread CDR Group
Catherine We managed to generate a DTM and 3D map just within MapInfo v7 (utilising the VM routines) on 6 300 000 points - it took a few hours but impressed by the fact that it worked!! All I can offer is: I haven't reached a limit yet. Regards John Ievers - Original Message -

RE: MI-L Vertical Mapper: Max. number of points for interpolation

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
A often seen problem is that there among your points are some located at (0,0). If this is the case the grid VM is supposed to create is simply to huge. Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer COWI A/S Rugårdsvej 55 DK 5000 Odense C Tel +45 6313 5013 Direct+45 6313 5008 Mobil +45 2270

MI-L Losing control points while Digitizing

2003-01-10 Thread W . Laan
Hello, We digitize hardcopy drawings with mapinfo 6 with a Kurta(Altek) digitizing tablet. On a bad day virtual tablet is losing its focus on mapinfo every 15 minutes or so. Our way to solve this is to set the tablet manager on mapinfo again but this becomes an annoying error. Today we

MI-L MapInfo-L Reminder

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MI-L Help with line/region intersection

2003-01-10 Thread CRISP, Paul -Syntegra UK
This is probably staring me in the face but - Is there a simple check to see if a line crosses into a region anywhere along its length, while ignoring any stretches in common (eg a line snapped to a region border except for one blip where it goes inside?) I've been using intersectnodes to

Re: MI-L Vertical Mapper: Max. number of points for interpolation

2003-01-10 Thread Cameron Crum
I had lunch with a higher up at Marconi's wireless division a couple of days ago. This was the group who decided to buy Northwood because Planet, Marconi's RF Planning software was getting creamed by dBPlanner. I brought up the fact that I had seen several complaints about VM and the customer

RE: MI-L Vertical Mapper: Max. number of points for interpolation

2003-01-10 Thread Lawley, Russell S
cameron I doubt you can expect to get much support from them any time in the near future. I suspect you are right and this is a real shame because VM really used to 'shine' when compared with some rival vendors products ..its has (until recently) been very robust, fast and so easy to use that i

MI-L Comments on HP Laserjet 4600n?

2003-01-10 Thread Charlie Bernhardt
I need a fast color printer for 8.5x11 maps - aerial photo data with some vector overlays including some text. The specs for the above printer seem to fit the bill. Does anyone have one of these? How's the print quality in normal on plain paper? Compared to HP inkjets? Would the optional 10 gig

MI-L MapBasic Question

2003-01-10 Thread Frank Aaron (EUS)
I produce a number of mbx's that are employed by our company's internal employees and external contractors -- to that end would it be possible (and does MapBasic support) to integrate a segment of code that would limit the duration of the program's usage? Currently, we have several Visual

RE: MI-L MapBasic Question

2003-01-10 Thread Canfield, Andrew
Go with a number of runs limit rather than a date. Release the app and with 50 trial uses. That way if they install it and forget about it until after the 30 days they can still try your program. Write the number of uses to a file in the registry each time using the API (you will have to convert

Re: MI-L MapBasic Question

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Thoen
If you want MBX apps to time-out after a certain number of days, you have to build it yourself. The simplest method is to hard-code a time-to-die date into the code and test that against the systems clock. To check that the user hasn't rolled back the system date, just check the dates on some

RE: MI-L Comments on HP Laserjet 4600n?

2003-01-10 Thread Ryan Morgan
We have had resounding luck with the Canon BJC S9000 photo ink jet printer. It handles 11X17 and costs about $500.00. Get plenty of ink, though, especially the photo cyan and photo magenta. Hope this helps, Ryan Morgan Aerials Express www.AerialsExpress.com -Original Message- From:

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Re: MI-L MapBasic Question

2003-01-10 Thread Cameron Crum
I do something similar to what the others have proposed, writing the date into a hidden file somewhere, but I also come up with a sort of encryption for the date. I change the numbers into something that doesn't appear to be a date at all by adding numbers, converting it to ascii characters or

MI-L Syrian GIS Data

2003-01-10 Thread Ron Gutiw
Listers: Does anyone know where I can get data for Syria. Ideally, I would like political boundaries, topography, roads and rail, petroleum concessions, pipelines, oil gas pools, well locations. I know this is asking alot, but anything would help. I already have DCW data. Cost is not important.

MI-L Calculating Time Differences

2003-01-10 Thread Anthony Harrington
Hello, I have a mapinfo table which contains a string column representing time values in the format of HH:MM:SS. Is anyone aware of some sample code to perform an operation like time1 - time2 (where the format is HH:MM:SS) ? Alternatively can anyone tell me is there any way to tokenize/parse

MI-L excel

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Taylor
I would like to use MS excel and MapInfo Can I have a live link between MI and excel where any changes in excel are reflected (updated) in MapInfo automatically. thanks. - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine |

RE: MI-L Comments on HP Laserjet 4600n?

2003-01-10 Thread Charlie Bernhardt
Thanks to all those who replied. Decided to go for the 4600dn - offers duplex printing, and the optional hard drive. - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

MI-L LoudenYH, Who are you?!?

2003-01-10 Thread Ryan Morgan
Every time I post to this list, some guy named LoudenYH sends me a nice auto-reply saying my email is suspect. Suspect of what, I ask? Is he/she the unknown head of the Secret Email Police? Mr. LoudenYH, kindly disable your auto-reply, I've never been suspected of anything before (except for

RE: MI-L Calculating Time Differences

2003-01-10 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Anthony, I'm assuming that your times do not have dates associated so you don't need to handle cross-midnight issues. I recommend saving a copy of your data before you update fields, especially original ones. I would suggest the best way of handling this is to add a new integer column for