SV: MI-L Preferences

2003-02-26 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi all! Debate: Why do we have to let these IT talibans rule our world? Regards, Mats.E ::: :Email/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ#9517386: :-:

MI-L Bug reports to MapInfo Corp

2003-02-26 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi All! Does Ne1 know the proper routines for submitting bug reports to MapInfo? (I prefer to speak to the source, resellers take no interest in such things) TIA Mats.E ::: :Email/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]IC

MI-L Unwanted Selection Changes

2003-02-26 Thread Nigel Tidswell
Dear Listers, I have a custom MBX app for editing records via dialogs. After selecting an object from the map, a dialog is opened, with the current values of feilds in the selection populated in controls on the dialog. The user can click a button on the main dialog which opens a sub dialog to

Re: MI-L Max number of Rows in a Mapinfo table

2003-02-26 Thread greis
Sorry, I missed the original post. I was trying to recover from a data roadblock. I support an old application that has in excess of 2 million records in one table. Recently, the map file for that one table exceeded 2 Gig in size. I can no longer pack the table nor add new records. So the limi

MI-L ERSIS Encounter 3 Problem

2003-02-26 Thread Ian Tidy
We are trailing ERSIS Encounter 3 and I am having a problem connecting to the SpatialWare tables on our SQL Server. When I view the workspace in SiteBuilder it looks fine, but when I copy the database file and try it through Internet Explorer I get 'The encounter map server could not create you

MI-L RE : MI-L elevation data from autocad-map

2003-02-26 Thread Simon Roy
I use Universal Translator to convert dwg/dxf file directly into MI tab format. Elevation values are preserved. Simon Roy GIS Specialist Carto-Média, Environnement Illimité Montreal, Qc. tel.:514-849-7281 fax.:514-849-6770 email : [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: MI-L Preferences

2003-02-26 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
yep, when we moved to win2k our IT dept took away our admin (write/modify) rights to the C:\WINNT and anything under PROGRAM FILES directories. they've since given the rights back to me because i use MI all the time and was getting annoyed at this message. however other people still don't have ad

RE: MI-L Max number of Rows in a Mapinfo table

2003-02-26 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
holy excess of geospatial data batman! what, are you trying to draw a map of where every one of bill gates' dollars are? -Original Message- From: Anirban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2003 9:03 PM To: MapInfo-L Subject: MI-L Max number of Rows in a Mapinfo table

MI-L Map Info-Mac Versions

2003-02-26 Thread Debra Straussfogel
Hello! Does anyone know if it is possible to obtain one of the old MapInfo for Mac versions? Preferably version 4 or up? Thanks much. - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-ma

MI-L elevation data from autocad-map

2003-02-26 Thread Ken Hickey
G'day I have a ".dwg" file created in Autocad Map 2000 and I wish to get it into Mapinfo. The file is of elevation contours and each polyline has an elevation value associated with it as part of the properties listed for each polyline in AutoCad Map 2000. When I try to export the ".dwg" file in

RE: MI-L MapInfo question regarding creation of territories

2003-02-26 Thread Hankins, Mike
There are several ways to do this. 1) You can create a thematic map of the counties. To do this, add a column to your table (Table>Maintenance>Table Structure. Add a column, name it Terr, choose integer or charactor.) Now reopen the table. choose Map>Create Thematic Map. You want Individual-R

MI-L transparent font samples

2003-02-26 Thread Jacques Paris
It is only when one needs something, not too often but so urgently, that one does not find it at his finger tips and waste valuable time browsing for it. After several forays on the subject and still having nothing concrete to show, I decided to start a collection of “transparent” fonts; such fonts

MI-L Determining Spammer address/URL's - with the web address

2003-02-26 Thread Figuers
sorry about that - here is the web address http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [E

MI-L determining spammer address/URL - interesting site

2003-02-26 Thread Figuers
Here is an interesting site that I stumbled across. It is very informative on the many ways that spammers can use to hide their URL's s. figuers - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubs

MI-L Drawing a line with nodes at specified distance

2003-02-26 Thread Brian_VanDruten
Is there a way to draw a line and specify that I want a node every 65'? Sincerely, Brian Van Druten Forestry Technician Alligator River NWR Manteo, NC - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To

MI-L Converting MapInfo WOR to ArcView Project

2003-02-26 Thread hansfree
Colleagues: Does anyone know of an application or conversion utility that converts MapInfo work spaces to Arc View projects? Thanks in advance, Peter H. Freeman Development Ecology Information Service www.devecol.org 619 Upland Place Alexandria VA 22301 USA Tel: 703 836 0058 --

MI-L Portland, OR User Group Meets Feb 27, 2003

2003-02-26 Thread dick
The PORTLAND Area MapIfo users group will meet on February 27, 2003 >From 2:30 to 4:30 in room 207 at ITT Technical Institute, 6035 NE 78th Ct, Portland, OR (at the corner of Columbia Blvd and 78th) Topic for demonstration and discussion is "publishing maps to the web" using MI or MI Discovery.

MI-L MapX on a storage server without graphics adapter !?

2003-02-26 Thread Lars V. Nielsen
Hi, To work around the problem described in another mail about network drive problems with MapX, we've contemplated running the web service from the data server itself. However, this server is a "pre-packaged" storage server with just Terminal Server access. And such servers apparently has no gr

MI-L Geosets referencing TAB files on networked computers - revisited

2003-02-26 Thread Lars V. Nielsen
Hi, This subject was touched in June/October, and was very well answered by Paul Crisp and Julius Mingala. However, I don't think the given answers covers our case :-(, so I'm reviving the question once again. Running IIS 5 on Win2000, and using MapX 4.5 patched. Testing with just MapX sofar, b

RE: MI-L Zip Codes

2003-02-26 Thread Blek, Jennifer
You can download 2000 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) Cartographic Boundary Files by state for free from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/z52000.html -Original Message- From: Hankins, Mike To: MapInfo-L (E-mail) Sent: 2/25/2003 3:24 PM Subject: MI-L Zip Codes Hello List,

MI-L centroidX(obj) and coordinate system

2003-02-26 Thread Blaine Castle
Hello Michael, In answer to your questions: However when I try to update a column with centroidX(obj) or centroidY(obj), the coordinates I get are longitude/latitude decimal degrees ! Is there a way to get the projected coordinates (meters) ? I still don't understand why we have to type these c

MI-L Weird problem labeling seamless tables

2003-02-26 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi All! We have got eight tables joined together in a seamless table. Naturally,they share the same table structure and data types. But we discovered that the labeling does not work as it should. It appeared that some of the component tables were not labeled, but then we realized that the labels

MI-L Preferences

2003-02-26 Thread Ron Gutiw
Listers: I'm getting an error message "Can't write to Preferences File." Of course all of my set up stuff is now missing. Anybody have this problem before? Ron - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.c

RE: MI-L Recalculation of polygons

2003-02-26 Thread Woody Woodruff
add a column for the area to your table, then do an update column from the Table Menu. Select the new col in the COl to Update, go down to the Value box, insert cursor, and hit Assist, in the next dialog hit Function pull down, select Area, put the units you want if the default sq mi is not what

MI-L Intersection of a line segment with table of point data

2003-02-26 Thread jay . russell
I have a table of line segments that intersect a table of points on each end at their nodes. I would like to be able to calculate which two end points each line segment hits using geographic operators. The line segment table has the following structure. X1,Y1,X2,Y2 (endpoint coordinates),ID1,ID2

Re: MI-L Max number of Rows in a Mapinfo table

2003-02-26 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
It is more likely that you hit the limit of 2 GB on the files before you hit the maximum number of records. Even if your table only holds a logical variable or a char(1), every record still takes up 2 bytes in the DAT file. So 1,000,000,000 records would be an absolute limit. Kind regards Uffe Ko

RE: MI-L Max number of Rows in a Mapinfo table

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
I have never tried it but my guess would be that the maximum is 2,147,483,647 (~ Integer) But again I have never tried to have that many records in a single table. Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer COWI A/S - Geografisk Information & IT Rugårdsvej 55 DK 5000 Odense C Tel +45 6313 5013 Di

MI-L Max number of Rows in a Mapinfo table

2003-02-26 Thread Anirban
Dear Alll, Can anybody tell me if there is any limitation in the number of records in a Mapinfo table. can i have 1000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000 rows in one table? If less is permitted i have the option to split it. but i want to know the max possible. TIA, Ani ---

MI-L Zip Codes

2003-02-26 Thread Hankins, Mike
Hello List, Bill and I are not nuts. I was having trouble posting messages. To my question--My company has been buying 5 digit zip code boundary files for years from GDT and MapInfo. (MapInfo sells GDT's product in MI format). My problem, MI has doubled the price (they blame GDT) for th

RE: MI-L centroidX(obj) and coordinate system

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Hi, If you are using MapInfo 7.0 you can tell MapInfo which projection you prefer to use for: - the current session - new tables This should do that you don't need to enter the "Set CoordSys..." into the MapBasic window. Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer COWI A/S - Geografisk Information & IT

SUM: MI-L centroidX(obj) and coordinate system

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Delorme
Thanks to Uffe Kousgaard, José Luis Armero, Silke Keuerleber Original message at the bottom. Everyone gave the same method. - Here is Uffe answer : First you open the mapbasic window (Options > Show Mapbasic Window) and then you type "set coordsys table " and hit enter. Then you wil

Re: AW: MI-L centroidX(obj) and coordinate system

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Delorme
Thanks I gave it a try but I get a "XYZ Extractor unable to initialize mapinfo" wherever I put the program (mapinfo directory, system32...) I have MI 7.0 Thanks anyway If someone has another solution... [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > Hello Michael > > Have you ever tried to use "xyz extractor-

Re: MI-L centroidX(obj) and coordinate system

2003-02-26 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
First you open the mapbasic window (Options > Show Mapbasic Window) and then you type "set coordsys table " and hit enter. Then you will get the expected centroid coordinates next time you update the column. Your question would be #1 for a FAQ, if one existed for MI-L, but it may not be easy to se

MI-L centroidX(obj) and coordinate system

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Delorme
Hi I have some projected data (Lambert) in a browser whose projection is Lambert too. However when I try to update a column with centroidX(obj) or centroidY(obj), the coordinates I get are longitude/latitude decimal degrees ! Is there a way to get the projected coordinates (meters) ? I didn't f

AW: MI-L Geocoding adresses in South Australia

2003-02-26 Thread Christof Kaiser
Have you tried DEHAA ? http://www.dehaa.sa.gov.au/mapland/index.html dont know if they have the stuff you are after, but worth a try. regards christof > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Owen, Cate [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 01:06 > An: [EMAIL PR