[MI-L] Ed Parsons, CTO, OS

2006-06-14 Thread Payne Denis
Those at the GDC User Conference will have heard Ed Parsons speak. He's got a fascinating website at : http://www.edparsons.com/, and there are some of his other presentations at : http://www.edparsons.com/?page_id=7 Enjoy! Denis _ Denis W Payne GIS Manager Cambridgeshi

RE: [MI-L] PDF maps from MAP-INFO - Help!!!

2006-06-14 Thread csueu
Hi There,   Have you ever heard of the free ware PDF 995? You can download a PDF convertion tool at http://www.pdf995.com/. We use it daily to create PDF’s from our MapInfo maps.   Cheers,   Chris Sueur   Vestigia BV, Archeologie en cultuurhistorie Grote Koppel 14 3813 AA Amersfo

Re: [MI-L] Re: Opening ENC data (S57 format or *.000 file)

2006-06-14 Thread ��rako
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list,Does anyone know of any method of opening ENC files in MapInfo 8.0? (e.g.Electronic Navigation Chart information) The data format has *.000 as theextension and is part of the S57 object catalog for Hydrographic Data.Best,Vitad

[MI-L] (no subject)

2006-06-14 Thread ��rako
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RE: [MI-L] Performance of Large Tables and Spatial Selections

2006-06-14 Thread Jacques Paris
Bill, When doing any selection based on an "object", I always adopt that MB solution. It is one of the cases where the run menu command does not work. The reason seems simple enough: selection-by-polygon is part of the M_TOOL_ family of definitions that requires some mouse input in order to be

RE: [MI-L] Naming a query window

2006-06-14 Thread Terry McDonnell
Title: Naming a query window Hi Spencer   I may be going nuts here but I can't find any "Alter Window" command. Yet, curiously, I feel that it exists and that I may have used it.   Could you mean:   Set Window FrontWindow()   Title "Summerland Health Care" ?   Regards   Terry From: [EMAI

RE: [MI-L] PDF maps from MAP-INFO - Help!!!

2006-06-14 Thread David Hilpipre
Hello   same for pdf creator (may be it is the same soft?). Very easy to install and we use it daily to create PDF’s from our MapInfo maps   Regards   David HILPIPRE Arcade conseil   De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de csueuEnvoyé : mercredi 14 juin 2006 10:02À :

[MI-L] Satellite photos

2006-06-14 Thread ��rako
Hi All,   Does anyone know how to open IKONOS Satellite photos in their real color with map info professional? They seem so dark, I have played with brightness and contrast settings -still not good. Isn't it possible to see these photos like they seem in google earth?   I have both 8 bit and

[MI-L] Alvis' MI Icons for MB

2006-06-14 Thread Jacques Paris
I just realized I have not seen an official announcement about the availability of Alvis Ng’s translation of all the MI icons into BMP and ICO files set to be used directly in Visual Basic   It is in www.paris-pc-gis.com/download.htm  as the last entry in the “Files from other origins” pa

RE: [MI-L] Performance of Large Tables and Spatial Selections

2006-06-14 Thread Terry McDonnell
Bill Feel like I'd be trying to teach grandma to suck eggs but here goes: How about establishing the state first, i.e. "Select streets.street_name from streets, states where states.name = "Colorado" and streets.obj within states.obj And is your states table indexed on name Just a WAG b

SUM: [MI-L] Performance of Large Tables and Spatial Selections

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thoen
Thanks for the quick responses, folks. Actually, I solved it minutes after I posted my question, and tried to reply to my own question but it appears that that message never showed up. The way to do this is NOT to do a join. What I used was a sub-select: Select * from Streets Where obj Within (

RE: [MI-L] Naming a query window

2006-06-14 Thread Nabors, Steve
Title: Naming a query window Hello, The command is   dim name_select as string name_select = "My new map name" Set Window FrontWindow() Title name_select From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry McDonnellSent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:39 AMTo: Spencer Simpson;

[MI-L] MapInfo v8.5

2006-06-14 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Hello all, I just received MapInfo 8.5 today and am wondering if it is a safe upgrade. Has anyone run into trouble with it thus far? Thank you for any guidance, Jonathan ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.direction

[MI-L] Create Points - Wrong Coordinates

2006-06-14 Thread Michele Tuomi
Hello everyone; This is probably a very simple question to answer. I had a MS Access table that I wanted to bring into MapInfo (7.8) and create points from. I've done that and have taken a look at the results. Everything SEEMS fine, but when I look at certain points, they're not exactly at the

[MI-L] Dynamic dll locations

2006-06-14 Thread James Cornelius
All, Is there a way that I can dynamically declare which drive a dll is located in mapbasic.  I have a function that is called like this:   declare function getelev lib "\custom_dlls\mathfunc.dll" (byval x as float,byval y as float) as float   I want to add the system drive letter to this.

RE: [MI-L] MapInfo v8.5

2006-06-14 Thread Ian Tidy
Jonathan, I upgraded my laptop and workstation, so far I haven't run into any problems. Cheers Ian __ Ian Tidy GIS Administrator Works Asset Department Napier City Council Hastings St, Private Bag 6010, Napier, New Zealand Phone +64-6-835-7579 Ext. 8115 Fax +64-6-835-7574 mail

RE: [MI-L] Create Points - Wrong Coordinates

2006-06-14 Thread Michele Tuomi
Hello again; Update on the create points issue. Just so you know I was using a non-earth coordinate system. It was suggested to me that I alter the map boundaries. I did just that, and re-created the points. This time, the small variance I was seeing in some of my points was eliminated - all th

RE: [MI-L] Dynamic dll locations

2006-06-14 Thread Spencer Simpson
The short answer to this is no. If you can’t guarantee where the DLL is going to be from system to system (such as not knowing the system drive letter beforehand) while writing the application, you should put each system’s path to the DLL in the PATH environment variable for that system. Then dec

[MI-L] Creating your own grid handler (ENVI grids)

2006-06-14 Thread Marty Moloney
Hi there,   I’m wondering how to go about creating your own grid handler.  I see on Jacques Paris’ site that “For those that would like to know about building a new handler for some MI grids, they will have to find the GridHandler.exe archive file that contains documents and scripts to co

Re: [MI-L] Dynamic dll locations

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thoen
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:22:28PM -0400, Spencer Simpson wrote: > Another alternative is to always put the DLL in the same directory as the > MBX. Personally, over more than a decade of programming MapBasic, I’ve > never gotten DLLs to work consistently putting them anywhere else. I've heard tha