Re: MI-L Defining cross-roads MapX

2003-11-19 Thread Katrin
Thanks a lot, Philip, for your answer It gives me an advantage at about 15%. I'm surprized. :) Is there anything more here to correct? Could anyone tell me about the second question - it bothers me mostly. Waiting impatiently Philip Waight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I'm fairly sure this will

MI-L About Creating PolyLine In mapx5.0

2003-11-19 Thread lixiaohui
hi, When creating polyline in mapx5.0,as the mouse arrived at the edge of the map window,the screen can't move horizontally or/and vertially automatically what can be done in professional. Is there someone know how to do that using vb or Vc++ with mapx? best regards, -brozonna

MI-L Defining cross-roads MapX

2003-11-19 Thread Katrin
Hello I'm shocked. You, Philip, were absolutely right. When I moved poins collection into new variable working time decreased to less than minute for 4000 objects. I can't understand such a logic... very strange. I'm so gratefull to you.Thanks so much. Now i'll try to remake all the code

MI-L MapInfo v8.0

2003-11-19 Thread Ian Hull
Hi, Does anyone know if/when a beta version of MI v8.0 will be available? I had heard 8.0 would be released in March(ish) but that was a while ago so... Regards, Ian Hull Greater Manchester Transportation Unit Salisbury House Granby Row Manchester M1 7AH Tel: 0161 455 2059 Fax:

Ang: MI-L MapInfo v8.0

2003-11-19 Thread mel
Hi Ian! As far as I understand, MI corp has abandoned beta programs altogether. Did you see any beta for v7.5? I did not, neither has there been any beta cycles for localized MI Pro versions since v6.5 I am speaking of course as a common user - maybe there has been a beta for a select audicene.

MI-L Universal translator tool

2003-11-19 Thread andre boessenkool
I am trying to translate some ESRI shape data into Mapinfo MID/MIF format, but the translator fails due to an unknown geometry, which has no meaning to me. see following log file: Universal Translator (19971015 - Build 231h) Opened Shape File G:\Mowbray\Vector

RE: MI-L MapInfo v8.0

2003-11-19 Thread Gilbert Haché
The Alpha is available now but one has to have register for it a long time ago, don't know if they would accept new members... You also need Visual Studio 2003. I've been told that a Beta version should be available since this time they re-write the software. I don't have any exact date but

MI-L Identifying Regions with Holes

2003-11-19 Thread Campbell, Keith A
Hi all, Is there any way to identify, by a query or other straightforward process, all regions that have a hole or holes in them? The ObjectInfo function will enable multi-polygon regions to be identified, but I can't see that it will provide what I want. Any suggestions? TIA, Keith

Re: MI-L ObjectGeography

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Walsh
Thanks Ashley and Mark for your response! Here is what I ended up doing: minlon = ObjectGeography(editbox.obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEBEGX) maxlon = ObjectGeography(editbox.obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEENDX) minlat = ObjectGeography(editbox.obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEBEGY) maxlat

MI-L Looking for a Drivetime program

2003-11-19 Thread Phillips, Frank
I need to develop a set of service areas based on drivetime from my road data. Can anyone recommend the appropriate MapInfo product for this task? I do not necessarily need to do routing, just establish service area polygons. Thanks in advance. Frank Phillips Manager of Marketing GIS Vulcan

Re: MI-L Looking for a Drivetime program

2003-11-19 Thread Bill Thoen
Phillips, Frank wrote: I need to develop a set of service areas based on drivetime from my road data. Can anyone recommend the appropriate MapInfo product for this task? Check out RouteWare (http://www.routeware.dk/.) There's a ready-to-run application for MapInfo, but I bought the

RE: MI-L Looking for a Drivetime program

2003-11-19 Thread Neil Havermale
Drive time is essentially a friction surface. You can take a look at a MapInfo Pro app that can do what-if analysis based on, in example, various confirgurations of ATM locaions versus streets and their speed classification. You will need to download MapCalc Learner at:

Re: MI-L Looking for a Drivetime program

2003-11-19 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
To Frank Philips: You can perform such tasks with either 1) RouteFinder 2.02 for MapInfo or 2) RW Net 2.18 (SDK) Bill Thoens comment on the quality of the RW Net documentation was based on an older version. A new and much improved version was released in July 2003. The old was indeed not very

MI-L RE: THANKS EVERYONE - MI-L Looking for a Drivetime program

2003-11-19 Thread Phillips, Frank
I've got more choices than I ever imagined! Thanks for everyone's advice. Frank -Original Message- From: Phillips, Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:00 PM To: 'MapInfo-L' Subject: MI-L Looking for a Drivetime program I need to develop a set of

RE: MI-L ObjectGeography

2003-11-19 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
well consider this, MINX is different to BEGX. for instance what if your line goes from east to west? this would mean BEGX is greater than MINX. but yeah, i should have been more precise orignally and stated that FORMAT$ would only DISPLAY the data with the required decimal precision. if your

RE: MI-L Identifying Regions with Holes

2003-11-19 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
i think you need to use the esoteric IsDonut() function. no, sorry that's no help. friday comes early in australia. i don't know the answer, but i suspect it will involve something along the lines of evaluating the surface area of the region, then outputting the extents of the region to a new

MI-L california albers projection

2003-11-19 Thread Cinda Graubard
Can someone share the string for adding the following projection to the MapInfo PRJ file?: Albers Equal Area Projection over the State of California. This is the name of the projection listed for many of the GIS-related products on the CaSIL (California Spatial Information Library) site. TIA

RE: MI-L Identifying Regions with Holes

2003-11-19 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
here, i've had a play with my theory. i don't know how much processing you can do automatically but you'll get the idea. i first had a donut, a region with a hole in it. to get the area of it i selected it and typed the following: # DonutArea = area(selection.obj, sq km)

RE: MI-L california albers projection

2003-11-19 Thread Fonseca, Milton
Cinda, This is what we use around here: Teale Center Albers, 9, 62, 7, -120, 0, 34, 40.5, 0, -400 Cheers, Milton Fonseca Research Analyst I (GIS) Mineral Resources and Mineral Hazards Mapping Program California Geological Survey California Department of Conservation Phone: (916) 323-8192

Re: MI-L MI 7 and multi monitors

2003-11-19 Thread Matt Bolton
Trey, Thanks, that's as good a solution as I need. I ended up using Set Window 1011 Position ( -0.05, -0.05) Width 14.73 Height 11 for a 15 display. The negative values offset it enough to account for the window border and the effect is virtually the same as a maximised window. For some