[MI-L] Cloned map windows

2006-06-04 Thread Alistair Hart
Dear Listers, Does anyone know how to 'unlink'a cloned window? I have a workspace with one original map window which was cloned to create a second and this was subsequently cloned to create a third. When I changethe content of a childmap window (ie. using'ctrlF'to navigate to a new part

[MI-L] SUM: Cloned Map Windows

2006-06-04 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, Thanks to Rob Crossley and Steve Chan for their replies. Steve's reply sums it up nicely: "A feature of MapInfo is that when you do a "QueryFind" on a particular table, if that table is loaded as a layer in a Map, MapInfomay relocate to the area where the object is found. It

[MI-L] MapInfo and Video Cards

2006-05-22 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, I'm currently running MapInfo on WinXP with a HP-compaq D350 SFF computer (2.8Ghz P4). It has an 'on board' video card (ie: shares system resources) and I'd like to speed things up a bit with a separate video card. My requirement for a 'small form factor' AGP card (below AU$500)

Re: [MI-L] Renaming MapInfo Windows

2006-05-18 Thread Alistair Hart
Kevin, Try themapinfo (mapbasic) tool called WindowManager (WINMGR). I think it comes with MapInfo V8.0 so you may have it already... Look in: C:\Program Files\MapInfo\Professional\Tools for all the other ones that come with MapInfo. Hope this helps, Alistair. "Kevin Cressy" [EMAIL

Re: [MI-L] Joining tables with very different structures

2006-04-03 Thread Alistair Hart
David, This is a bit of a workaround. Of course if there is a better way, I'd be very happy to learn of it! Do an SQL select Select * from both tables whereTable1.common field=table2.common field Savequery as new table - query 1. Invert selection to pick up records from Table1 that

[MI-L] Automatic DBMS table mapping with full attributes

2006-03-02 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Listers, I'd like to have a workspace where I have a DBMS tablejoined to a GIS table (property boundaries - linked using unique property ID) and where I can click on the property and see all the attributes of the corresponding DBMS table record. The idea is that some properties will

[MI-L] Text labels missing from .pdf output / MI in MSAccess Reports

2006-02-01 Thread Alistair Hart
out if no-one can tell me. Thanks for your time. Al. *** Alistair Hart Data Manager (Spatial) Health Surveillance Tropical Population Health Network Northern Area Health Service Queensland Health

[MI-L] select records by string within text

2006-01-12 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, Having a Friday 'foggy thinking' moment here... and not having any luck with archive or MI documentation... Can anyone tell me what command one would use to select records where the data within one column included particular text? I have a couple of separate tables I need this

[MI-L] Re: MI-L select records by string within text

2006-01-12 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi again, The friday fog has lifted (no doubt courtesy of that last caffeine blast...). I found a reference to a function called the InStr Function in the MIPro User Guide that allows me to do precisely what I need. In this function (called within the QuerySelect or QuerySQL select

SUM [MI-L] select records by string within text

2006-01-12 Thread Alistair Hart
select command is NOT case sensitive. The wildcard select option is easier and quicker to use for my straightforward need. Thankyou all for your informing responses! Al. Alistair Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/01/06 12:11:26 Hi Folks, Having a Friday 'foggy thinking' moment here

[MI-L] SUM - MI Pro Concurrent Licensing

2006-01-02 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, Happy New Year to all and thankyou too, for the replies to my question regarding concurrent licensing precedents for MIPro. Whilst MapInfo and I haven't concluded defining the choices we have available as yet (the rep's on holiday...), I can summarise all the contributions I have

[MI-L] Lables/layout text not printing

2006-01-02 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, Here's a really strange issue... I have a map window containing a Queensland road layer with road names as labels. After creating a layout with text (dodgy legend etc.) and printing to either .pdf or the printer, the road layer labels don't appear, regardless of if they are custom

[MI-L] concurrent licensing for MIPro

2005-12-28 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, Has anyone ever heard of a concurrent licensing deal being struck between an organisation and MI before?? As an interim step between adhoc use of MapInfo and a full blown enterprise solution, I'd like to negotiate with MI a concurrent license where we may install MI locally on

Re: [MI-L] Fixes and New MapInfo Features

2005-12-22 Thread Alistair Hart
. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/12/05 9:15:30 Søren Breddam wrote: This shouldn't

[MI-L] Maximum MapXMobile Raster file size

2005-12-07 Thread Alistair Hart
topo extracts) without problems, but was curious to see if anyone had hit a limit? If I don't get a reply, I'll SUM my own results for future reference by MI-Lers. Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance

MI-L MapXMobile 5.05 Raster engine does not recognise .ecw format on HP5550

2005-09-26 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Andrew/Listers, Have you ever had a problem where the .ecw format is not recognised by the MapX5.0 raster engine? I have built the .gst's (~60 of them - each with a custom built and registered .ecw) and when I go to open them on my HP5550, they throw an error and when I try to open an

MI-L Thematic map shading - region ranges

2005-09-11 Thread Alistair Hart
. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disease ecology is inherently integrative and spatial, and GIS

MI-L Hurricane Katrine GIS volunteers

2005-09-08 Thread Alistair Hart
Dear Listers, For those still wishing to contribute to the recovery efforts for Hurricane Katrina, I noted the following page on GISuser.com expressed a need for GIS help to coordinate the placement and movement of homeless people:

MI-L Save thematic map as .TAB

2005-09-08 Thread Alistair Hart
Dear Listers, Does anyone know of a utility to transfer thematic map styles to theoriginal data fileso you can present it via an .ocx (say in MS Powerpoint) and have the thematic map appear, as opposed to just the original polygon dataset? The following is a related reply to the List

MI-L SUM RE: Postscript to MI-L: updating regions with neighbouring regions attribute

2005-08-01 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi listers, Thanks to Robert Crossley, Andrew Williams and Peter Horsboll Moller for replying to my post. I was on the right track but to get all combinations of intersecting regions, I had to use the SQL select instead of update table. The most correct and useful info and code for me was:

MI-L updating regions with neighbouring regions attribute

2005-07-31 Thread Alistair Hart
not been successfull in my searches. Something tells me the solution shouldn't have to be as tricky as I'm thinking. Can anyone suggest how I should approach this? Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance

MI-L Postscript to MI-L: updating regions with neighbouring regions attribute

2005-07-31 Thread Alistair Hart
Further information to last post: Using TableUpdate Column, I have been able to update the new column with the neighbouring SLA's identifier where the SLA.object from SLA_table intersects SLA.object from Duplicate_SLA_table. This successfully returns the first intersecting SLA value, But how

MI-L unformatting field value

2005-07-24 Thread Alistair Hart
? Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network *** This email, including any attachments sent

SUM: MI-L unformatting field value

2005-07-24 Thread Alistair Hart
Hello again, Jacques Paris helpfully informed me that the regional and language options available via Control Panel enable me to specify digit grouping preferences - and it worked! Thanks Jacques, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project

SUM: MI-L Right$ argument 1 has invalid type

2005-07-24 Thread Alistair Hart
$(SLA03_Code,#),4)) I use format$ rather than str$ to avoid commas being inserted. Thankyou all for your help. Alistair *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD

MI-L SUM - PNG Coastline Data

2005-07-19 Thread Alistair Hart
Thanks to all who responded. The following is the info I recieved: For 1:50,000 PNG Coastline, you can download from the UPNG Remote Sensing Centre at: http://gis.mortonblacketer.com.au/upngis/downloads.htm the coastline file is in MapInfo format - 13 MB in size. You could try the aeronautical

MI-L PNG Coastline data

2005-07-18 Thread Alistair Hart
, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disease ecology is inherently integrative and spatial

MI-L Multpile Version Instal - V7.0 7.8

2005-06-22 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, Has anyone installed both V7.0 and V7.8 on the same machine concurrently? I'd like to but don't want to risk it without any advice... Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public

MI-L SUM - Multiple Version Instal

2005-06-22 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi again, Folks. Thanks to Michael Osbourn, Mike Troth and Rob Davis for responding. This can be done, but the instal should be to a differnt folder than the default. Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health

MI-L Annoying cross hairs

2005-06-09 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi Folks, In my haste to depart on leave I have hit a key and have some cross hairs that extend horizontally and vertically completely across both map and legend windows with the junction of the lines on the cursor. I'm sure they are usefull at times, but right now they must be banished

MI-L SUM - annoying cross hairs

2005-06-09 Thread Alistair Hart
... Thanks again folks, I'll think of you all when I'm kicking back chasing the elusive 'Barra up Cape York. Al. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740

MI-L Graduated and colour range - Previous different sized symbols

2005-04-13 Thread Alistair Hart
. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we

MI-L string expression

2005-04-11 Thread Alistair Hart
and 7.8. Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If our hopes of building a better

SUM: MI-L string expression

2005-04-11 Thread Alistair Hart
. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we

Re: MI-L Réf. : MI-L Exporting GeoPDF files

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair Hart
I think the .eps format is supported in photoshhop as well... Cheers, Al. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL

Re: MI-L MI for PocketPC?

2005-01-18 Thread Alistair Hart
multiple I understand a new version is on the way, and Mapinfo have promised to provide me with a free upgrade for my 5 licenses so it's not all a bad as it may sound. Anyway, hope this helps!! Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project

MI-L GeoSet Utility problem

2005-01-10 Thread Alistair Hart
a couple of months since I've created a .gst so I can't recall exactly how I made the .gst but I'm sure it was an .mbx tool without version options. I'm using MapXMobile V5.01. Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health

Re: MI-L GeoSet Utility problem

2005-01-10 Thread Alistair Hart
. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we

MI-L Continuous Grid Surface Thematic question

2005-01-09 Thread Alistair Hart
-30 degrees anti-clockwise, compared to the underlying data. Has anyone heard of this before? Perhaps this is why my points are not 'in the grid'. Thanks again for your help, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health

MI-L V7.0 Reprojection problems

2005-01-06 Thread Alistair Hart
, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become

SUM: RE: MI-L V7.0 Reprojection problems/no-datum coordinate system

2005-01-06 Thread Alistair Hart
posts on the infamous no-datum coordinate system issue by me and others over the years. Best Regards, Martin Higham Avantra Geosystems Thanks for your time and ENJOY your weekend Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health

MI-L Asian Tsunami - webmap

2005-01-03 Thread Alistair Hart
Animation. Sincerely wishing you all a happy, safe and productive New Year, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart GIS Project Officer Health Surveillance Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E

MI-L SUM - MapBasic fumblings - buffers - combine object

2004-04-29 Thread Alistair Hart
to. In the above code, i have called that table AutoBufT, but it could be called anything, so long as the object variable (?? is that what it is called??) was renamed to reflect the table you had open and available. I hope this is of some use to someone, Thanks again for your time, Alistair Hart

MI-L MapBasic fumblings - buffers - combine object

2004-04-27 Thread Alistair Hart
for MapInfo-L, Cheers, Alistair *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Failure is not an option

Re: MI-L Copying Text into Attributes

2004-01-29 Thread Alistair Hart
table yy... Seee if this works... Cheers, Alistair *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless

Re: MI-L NorthArrow.prf?

2003-12-02 Thread Alistair Hart
not open my .wor's due to being unable to locate that file which was previously referred to in all my workspaces. Perhaps it may resolve your problem? Hope this helps, Alistair Hart *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team

MI-L MI V7.0 Universal Translator failure

2003-12-01 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi all, Has anyone else noticed a problem where their Universal Translator does not wok in MI version 7.0? Cheers, Alistair. *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103

Re: MI-L SUM - MI-L Mobile Mapping software - call for ideas

2003-09-10 Thread Alistair Hart
, Alistair *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless we use natural resources in a sustainable way, we

MI-L SUM - MI-L Mobile Mapping software - call for ideas

2003-09-09 Thread Alistair Hart
to exisiting records on the Main Desktop Mapinfo.TAB's if that meets your data capture needs. Thanks once again to all who took the time to reply. Alistair Hart *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical

MI-L Mobile mapping software - call for ideas

2003-08-21 Thread Alistair Hart
*** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless we use natural resources in a sustainable way, we

MI-L SUM - MI-L Scale Bars, North Arrows Registered images MI7.0

2003-08-19 Thread Alistair Hart
. *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311 440 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless we use natural resources in a sustainable way, we are mining the future. Unless the relationships

MI-L Scale Bars, North Arrows Registered images MI7.0

2003-08-14 Thread Alistair Hart
that it was not correct! Can anyone offer me advice on the correct way to apply these MBapp's or suggest alternative tools for me to use? Will SUM, Cheers, Alistair *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit

MI-L SUM: concentric ring buffers problem in MI5.5

2003-01-21 Thread Alistair Hart
and have it running anyway. A source for e.g. 4.1 compiled with MB 7 won't run on pre-7.0 versions of MIPro just because of the updated header version tag. I don't have 7.0 myself, just 6.5. Alistair Hart ** This e-mail, including

MI-L re: previous view - try View Manager

2003-01-21 Thread Alistair Hart
I downloaded a tool from the directionsmag site called View Manager that allows a user to go forward or backward up to 10 views. This solves both the previous view and the accidental stuff ups! I can't survive without it! Alistair

MI-L Jens email address

2003-01-09 Thread Alistair Hart
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here can supply me with an email address for Jens Age Nielsen. I tried contacting him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it came back unknown... I'd like to get a 'no nags' version of View Manager. Thankyou! Alistair Hart

RE: MI-L workspace links and moving data files

2001-11-29 Thread Alistair Hart
www.spatialplus.com to update it for use with MI6.0 and 6.5. If you are copying to a CD first, it allows this but afterward, you will need to uncheck all the tables and .wor read-only tick boxes to allow further editing as they are made read-only for the CD. Regards, Alistair Hart Earl, Richard [EMAIL

RE: MI-L The use of GPS technology joint with palm pc

2001-06-03 Thread Alistair HART
Mobile: 0030 0945 774826 FAX: 0030 31 941160 - =20 *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit Network PO Box 1103 Cairns QLD 4870 Ph: 0740 503 628 Fax: 0740 311

MI-L Creating one polygon from many (ie: street files) for viweingon PDA

2001-04-19 Thread Alistair HART
polygons and the street polygons. PS: If anyone has any good suggestions on map viewing software for a PalmOS device, please let me know. Regards, *** Alistair Hart Vector Control Officer Dengue Action Response Team Tropical Public Health Unit