MI-L Close Table with MapBasic

2005-04-21 Thread Kristof Vydt
I'm trying to open a table with the same name but reading from another tab. I can do this only by first closing the existing table, and afterwards opeing the other tab with the same table name. When I use the fillowing lines in the MapBasic Window, this works fine: Open Table "C:\...\werkgebie

MI-L mbx

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Tracey
Dear All, I have written an .mbx to pull out certian records within a .tab file. All records that are selected are polygons but have different colour schemes. I want to be able to change the border style to black on all polygons and leave the fill style as it is. I have attempted to do this usi

MI-L proyection CRS - ETRS-TMzn

2005-04-21 Thread S . Esteban Rodríguez
Is posible to use in MapInfo the CRS - ETRS-TMzn projection?? is as the Regional COnformal Projections --> (conformal projection Europe)?? Explanation of ETRS89 / (X, Y, Z) pan-European CRS with Datum ETRS89 in cartesian coordinates Description of CRS - ETRS-TMzn Country Europe Country identi

Re: MI-L mbx

2005-04-21 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
Hi Andrew, You would have to loop through all records in a while loop and for each record apply the changes: (untested) dim BlackPenStyle as pen dim NewObj as object dim id as integer BlackPenStyle = makePen() id = 0 fetch first from mytable while not eot(mytable) NewObj = mytable.object id

MI-L Free GUI available for two GeoTIFF utility programs

2005-04-21 Thread info
Hi All, We recently contributed a Windows-based GUI for two popular GeoTIFF utility programs - "listgeo.exe" and "geotifcp.exe', which are freely available from the official GeoTIFF website at http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html Because the above two programs are DOS-based, some use

MI-L convert uk easting/westing coordinates to decimal degrees

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Mincher
Dear all,   As I am new to mapinfo I finding it difficult to automatically convert convert uk easting/westing coordinates to decimal degrees.   My data is for example in the ff format in a tab file   Easting: 546,750.00 Westing : 178,450.00   Any help very welcome       Paul Mi

Re: MI-L convert uk easting/westing coordinates to decimal degrees

2005-04-21 Thread Martin A Spiers
Nigel James' mapinfo coordinate conversion tool sounds like just the thing you need - it should be available from http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/geo_tools.htm, but I've just chec

MI-L AutoCAD files to tab

2005-04-21 Thread Lewis,Scott [Dartmouth]
Hello, This may be a very basic question, but what is the best procedure for taking AutoCAD files and turning them into useable MapInfo tab files? I have tried using Universal translator a few times (dxf to tab) and there have been output errors and no tab files have been created. Is this due to

Re: MI-L convert uk easting/westing coordinates to decimal degrees

2005-04-21 Thread Nigel James
Hi All The correct link is: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/geo_tools.htm My coordinate conversion tool mbx (Conversion Tools) converts conventional grid refs (e.g: SP123456) to eastings and northings and makes the table into mappable points. It also converts dms in to decimal degrees.

re[2]: MI-L convert uk easting/westing coordinates to decimal degrees

2005-04-21 Thread Patrick Cunningham
Martin, Try our Geographic Calculator. There is a free eval version where you can do a number of point to point conversions. If you need any help our expert staff can provide training to get you started. When you are done you can import your data right into MapInfo Pro. http://www.bluemarbl

RE: MI-L AutoCAD files to tab

2005-04-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott What version of AutoCAD was used to produce the files. AutoCAD has changed its formats more than once and Universal Translator cannot convert the latest versions. As a test you may want to ask the person supplying the AutoCAD files to save the file as an earlier version. Hope this helps

RE: MI-L AutoCAD files to tab

2005-04-21 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Another often seen problem is that UT can't translate DXF/DWG files containing spaces in the filename, so change these to eg. underscores Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311 49

RE: MI-L AutoCAD files to tab

2005-04-21 Thread Cowper, Brian
AutoCAD Map 3D now supports direct exporting to Mapinfo TAB and MIF files, you can use object data to populate fields in the TAB, such as block attributes, x/y insertion points, etc. If you convert AutoCAD drawings frequently you should consider upgrading to Map 3D. Brian -Original Messag

MI-L MI 7.5

2005-04-21 Thread John Polasky
Hello- Ever since I've upgraded to 7.5, my redraw/refresh rate has become VERY slowww. It is bad with mappers, but much worse with the layouts. Does anyone out there know if anything in MapInfo can be disabled to speed things up? Perhaps any of the new features that may be draining system resou

MI-L Download Data from Server

2005-04-21 Thread Possberg, Hendrik
Dear list, I am looking for a way to download data from a Server table, like it is possible using the "open DBMS table" - but I want to run it inside a Mapbasic script. I tried to use the "Server Link Table statement" but did not get further. The Server Connection is established. Server name is

RE: MI-L Download Data from Server

2005-04-21 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Hendrik, try this: Dim szCmd, szFile As String szCmd = "Select * From dbo.Geodata Where (Col1 = '0815') or (Col2 = '0815')" szFile = "D:\Temp\Sampledata.TAB" Server hdbc Link Table szCmd Toolkit "ODBC" into "SampleData" File szFile I don't always use the

Re: MI-L AutoCAD files to tab

2005-04-21 Thread Jbgramm
Scott, You might ask the people providing you with the DXF files to export them as an older release version say Release 12 or 13 and see if that helps. I have run into this problem quite often when people provide me with the latest version of a DXF file, the older versions seem to work for me w

Re: MI-L proyection CRS - ETRS-TMzn

2005-04-21 Thread Lars V. Nielsen (GisPro)
Off course you can, you may just have to define them yourself in the MAPINFOW.PRJ file. The ETRS89 datum is 115, and the rest is just as normal UTM. Datum 115 was defined in MapInfo Pro 6.0 "Danish Projections" includes its two relevant ETRS89 projections. Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V

RE: MI-L proyection CRS - ETRS-TMzn

2005-04-21 Thread S . Esteban Rodríguez
I see that the danish system is "UTM Zone33 Euref89", 8, 115, 7, 15.0, 0, 0.9996 , 50, 0 in the prj file, i know that the 115 is the datum (because lars say it me) but and the other parameters?? I would have paste one new row in the prj file with "CRS - ETRS-UTM30", 8, 115, ?, ?, ?, ? , ?, ? an

MI-L .e00 format

2005-04-21 Thread Ronning, Christine
Hi everyone, I am wanting to download some files that are in .e00 format. Does anyone know how to get this into a format that MapInfo can read? Thanks, Christine

RE: MI-L .e00 format

2005-04-21 Thread Ben A Greenberg
That is an export format from ESRI's ArcInfo, which can be translated with the Universal Translator provided in MapInfo Ben Greenberg GIS Coordinator NAI MLG Commercial 262-797-9400 -Original Message- From: Ronning, Christine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:0

Re: MI-L .e00 format

2005-04-21 Thread DLPSBR
Hi Christine, Use Universal Translater found under the Tools menu. If you don't know the projection, you can usually open the .e00 file in a text editor, and then search for Proj. Projection parameters should be nearby. Dan == Daniel P. Laux Geologist South Branch Resource

Re: MI-L .e00 format

2005-04-21 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
Older versions of MapInfo came with a separate e00 importer, that was MUCH faster than the one in Universal Translator. If the files are big or you have many of them, it may be worth while to find it. If I remember correctly it can still be chosen during install. Regards Uffe Kousgaard - Or

MI-L .e00

2005-04-21 Thread Ronning, Christine
Thanks to everyone that responded so quickly! I tried the Universal Translator a while ago and it didn't work, but maybe it's the projection that I need to play around with. I let you know if I have any more problems. Thanks again Christine

MI-L Link to access database

2005-04-21 Thread John Robot
Hi I am used to working with Manifold GIS but I have a temporary position where MapInfo is the tool used. I would like to link an external Access data base to a table inside MapInfo and I am not sure of how to do that. Is it possible? Also I am interested in learning how to link two tables (and

MI-L Cloning Map Windows using MapBasic

2005-04-21 Thread HAYCRAFT,David
Dear MAPINFO-L My agency has developed a MapBasic 7.5 program to generate a series of geographic state-based map layouts starting from a specified map window-legend window pair. Now we'd like to add a new option to this program to generate a single map layout containing a main map surrounded by

MI-L bearing and distance display

2005-04-21 Thread Thomas Coleman
does anyone know of a tool that allows for display of the bearing (ie Nxx-xx-xxE) and length of a line in MapInfo?? The bearing tool is very cumbersome, what with having to draw individual overlapping lines, and then convert to bearings from azimuths. Thomas Coleman President/Captain, Woodsman