MI-L AIB File

2004-07-07 Thread Eagle, David A
Has anyone come across an *.aib file before? If so what is it? Thanks, Dave This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protected. If you are not the addressee, any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, not

MI-L Data Management by Layer Group

2004-08-06 Thread Eagle, David A
All, It's a long shot but does anyone have any thoughts on the management of data layers within groups in MapInfo? I'll try and explain a little better... MapInfo's layer control when it contains more than 20 or so layers gets a little tedious when trying to search for a specific layer to turn

RE: MI-L restrict user

2004-08-13 Thread Eagle, David A
Take a look at the Set Window statement, SysMenuClose OFF will disable the close window option in the top right corner of the map window. You could toggle this on or off dependent upon who's logged in I suppose. Dave -Original Message- From: Gilbert, Antoine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

MI-L Topology???

2004-08-18 Thread Eagle, David A
All, I'm pursuing a number of different options and thought I'd get opinions from the list as well. I have a question that I think relates to topology and wondered if there was anyone out there who had any experience with MapInfo. Procedures, tools, etc... Lets say I have 3 layers each containi

MI-L MR Sid to ECW

2004-11-02 Thread Eagle, David A
Does anyone know if it's possible to convert a Mr Sid image to ECW and if so, how is it done? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave. This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protected. If you are not the addressee, any dissemination of this communication is strictly

MI-L SUM: MR Sid to ECW

2004-11-03 Thread Eagle, David A
All, I asked: Does anyone know if it's possible to convert a Mr Sid image to ECW and if so, how is it done? Well special thanks to: Tony of Photogrammetry GIU Steve Wallace Mike Osbourn & Mats Elfstrom Who recommended opening the image in Irfanview or the MrSID freeviewer and then exporting to

MI-L Image Registration

2004-12-14 Thread Eagle, David A
All, I am having unexplained and inexplicable problems trying to register a scanned raster image to the British National Grid coordinate system. I have registered it several times with a variety of different control points at a number of different locations and each time when I view it the vector

RE: MI-L Image Registration

2004-12-15 Thread Eagle, David A
sh to register the image. Save the rotated image and then register it. My image was indeed rotated off north so I followed the suggestion and my problems disappeared, well one of them anyway! Thanks again. Dave -Original Message- From: Eagle, David A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 Dec

MI-L Line generalisation

2005-04-06 Thread Eagle, David A
All, There are some strange goings on inside my computer that I find hard to understand...can anyone help. In the course of my daily grind I have found it necessary to generalise a dataset of polylines that represents a road network. This particular dataset is quite heavy and at the scale I am

RE: MI - L Updating Column With Number Sequence

2005-05-11 Thread Eagle, David A
John, Table > Maintenance > Table Structure. Add a new column, type integer called Ref_ID or similar. Table > Update...Update your new comumn with the value rowid This will assign a unique number to each row... If you made your column a char type you could update it with "RECORD_" + rowid, but th

RE: MI-L Legend Order

2005-05-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Brian, Make a copy of your workspace...and then open the copy in a text editor such as Notepad. Find the Legend statement and switch the order of the code. Save the workspace and re-open in MapInfo. Not the best solution, but it works for me. Dave -Original Message- From: Cowper, Brian

RE: MI-L CentroidX function to populate fields

2005-05-18 Thread Eagle, David A
Tom, set coordsys earth projection 8, 79, "m", -2, 49, 0.9996012717, 40, -10 This sets your session coordinates to OS BNG. Update Set = CentroidX(obj) Update Set = CentroidY(obj) Browse * From This updates your columns and browses the results. Hope that helps, Dave. -Origina

RE: MI-L Annoying cross hairs

2005-06-09 Thread Eagle, David A
Very easy, press the power button on your PC, shut your machine down and go on holiday... ;o) (but seriously, not seen that feature before, maybe you are using the new v8 and it's a 'new' feature?) -Original Message- From: Alistair Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 June 2005 09:3

RE: MI-L info box doesn't show

2005-07-12 Thread Eagle, David A
Marjorie, This may occur if you have recently altered the resolution of your monitor or if you have accidentally dragged the window out of sight. Ø Select the Info tool and query your data. Ø Open the MapBasic window and type the following: set window info position (1,2) Ø Add

MI-L Default zoom for rasters

2003-02-06 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Is there some text that I can put in a TAB header to make a raster layer open up at a default zoom scale rather than extents (its an unregistered image)? If I try typing "set map layer 1 default zoom" I am told that the layer is read-only but its not! Can anyone help? Thanks, Dave ---

MI-L DLL not found

2003-02-07 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have an intermittent problem with an application I am writing (MapBasic). Every now and again when my datepicker function is called the application falls over. This routine is dependent upon a DLL file. I think that we might have network issues here because the error quotes "Library Pic

MI-L SYSMENUCLOSE for DIALOGS

2003-02-14 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Is it possible to disable the 'Close' button (small cross) in the top right hand corner of a custom dialog in much the same way as you can in a window with the following? Set Window Sysmenuclose Off If so where should I call this? TIA, Dave This email and any attached files a

MI-L Rerun MBX

2003-02-25 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I'm having some problems with an application that I have written. It runs on version 5.5 of MI and has been happily working for 14 months without error...All of a sudden I am getting the following error: Cannot rerun MY_APP.MBX while an application is executing. It never pops up in quit

MI-L SUM - Rerun MBX

2003-03-04 Thread Eagle, David A
Thanks Guys! Blaine you got me looking in the right place...my problems stemmed from dodgy file associations. Thomas Brix Lyng: If you have the app registered in MapInfo tools menu to autostart with MapInfo and at the same time try to run the app (Ctrl+R) form MapBasic you will get that error. B

MI-L Selecting objects from multiple Tables

2003-03-04 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Is it possible to select multiple objects from multiple tables that are within a certain location and then browse from the selected objects either in separate browser windows or all in the same one (assuming the table structure is identical)? Do I have any options short of using the Info

MI-L Backwards Compatibility

2003-03-25 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have an old MBX that I created in MapBasic v5.5 to run on MapInfo v5.5. It is now failing and I need to debug it to source the problem. However, I now don't have MapBasic v5.5...I do have v6.0 and v6.5 but if I recompile the MBX and try and run it under v5.5 of MapInfo I get the obviou

MI-L SUM Video Survey

2003-05-28 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, In summary to my email regarding the need for a video surveying tool: "I want a section of road (100km approx) in the UK to be surveyed by video and GPS and an output produced that syncronises the two. The display could be run in MapInfo with the help of an MBX and an animation layer or

MI-L Printing from a message window

2003-05-29 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Quick question...can you print from a message window, if so how would you do this through MB? Rgds, Dave -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Cornerstone House Stafford Park 13, Telford Shropshire, TF3 3AZ

MI-L Query Efficiency

2003-06-03 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have created a gazetteer query tool (in MapBasic) to query an MI table containing 260,000 records. The process takes a variable from my dialog and searches the place name field (indexed) for instances LIKE it and then returns a query table containing two columns and the object. The pro

MI-L Overlapping Polylines

2003-06-12 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have a layer of polylines representing a road network. At a junction/intersection a new polyline starts from the end point of the last. However, in a very small number of cases some of the links have sections that overlap i.e. Polyline 1 (3 nodes, 2 sections) and Polyline 2 (3 nodes, 2

RE: MI-L VB Question

2003-06-19 Thread Eagle, David A
Bill, Try these... www.mvps.org/vbnet www.vbforums.com Best Regards, David -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Cornerstone House Stafford Park 13, Telford Shropshire, TF3 3AZ England Tel: +44 (0)1952 21 3268 *

MI-L MapInfo 7.5

2003-06-24 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Does anyone have a date more accurate than "this summer" for the release of version 7.5 of MapInfo Pro? Thanks in advance! Best Regards, David -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Cornerstone House Stafford

RE: MI-L Legend

2003-07-03 Thread Eagle, David A
Petr, Save your map to a workspace and then open it up in a text editor, notepad or such like. Scroll down to the line that says 'Create Cartographic Legend' and then move the frames into the order you would like. Example 1 Create Cartographic Legend Position (8.91667,0.208333) Units "in" W

MI-L SUM: Overlapping Polylines

2003-07-14 Thread Eagle, David A
3 12:31 To: 'Eagle, David A' Subject: RE: MI-L Overlapping Polylines David the following should work...(not tested on your data but works on similar stuff i am doing) if your table DOESNT already have a unique id for each object add an integer column to the table called roadID an

MI-L Max Tables

2003-07-14 Thread Eagle, David A
Does anyone know what the maximum number of Tables it is possible to have open in a map window at any one time? TIA, Dave -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Cornerstone House Stafford Park 13, Telford Shro

MI-L MapInfo reading ArcSDE?

2003-07-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Folks, I have a situation that I would like some advice on. ANY comments welcome or shared experience! We have a client that has converted MasterMap data (vector data from Ordnance Survey, UK) using ESRIs MapManager 8.1 from *.GZ format into ARC SDE format and have stored it in Microsoft SQL Se

MI-L Queries in Workspaces

2003-08-05 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have a problem that has just started occurring, can anyone explain it? When saving a workspace my query tables (generated from simple selections) and resultant graphs are not being saved and consequently are not opened when the WOR is launched. I have the obvious preference "save querie

MI-L Buffering Error

2003-08-14 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I'm trying to buffer a network of links. Having selected all links and making both a new table and the cosmetic layer editable (separate attempts obviously) I set the buffers to 50m with 12 segments per circle and one buffer for all objects...and away it goes. The buffer is created but...

MI-L Info Window & Object Tooltips

2003-08-28 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I suspect the answers to the following queries will be negative...but I'll give them a try anyway. 1) Is it possible to alter the font of text within the tooltip boxes that pop up when you hover your mouse over a map object (the text that pops up is controlled by the "label with" stateme

MI-L Proviewer & sysmenuclose

2003-08-29 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have a workspace setup to open a number of map windows, legend windows, throw up a couple of note statements and then a message box. When launched in Pro 7 everything works as it should, all the windows open and when I dismiss the notes up pops my message window. If I launch the same w

MI-L Raster Image Display Style

2003-09-15 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I'm writing a short sub routine in MB7.0 to toggle the display of some raster mapping between the 'Original Image' style (colour) and 'Greyscale'. Does anyone know how to report the current display style because I don't want to try and alter a greyscale image to a greyscale image? TableIn

MI-L MS Access TAB

2003-10-16 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have an access table open in MI and wish to alter its structure through Mapinfo...but Table>Maintenance>Table Structure will not allow me to do this. I can add new columns but can't edit or move existing columns. However, if I add a column into the access mdb through access and then edi

MI-L Populate Variable with RowID

2003-10-20 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I want to populate an integer variable with the rowid of a selected row, through MapBasic...my first thought was SelectionInfo( ) but I think I've drawn a blank. Can anyone give me a pointer? Best Regards, David This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protecte

MI-L Off topic GPS Question - Scotland

2003-10-28 Thread Eagle, David A
This is a vague question because I have very vague information at the moment and its posed at those of you who deal with GPS surveying...The surveys I am questioning are in Scotland, Uk. Situation: A vehicle survey with GPS tracking its position has been done in the Central Belt of Scotland (Glasg

MI-L SUM - Populate Variable with rowid

2003-10-30 Thread Eagle, David A
Hey I always get there eventually, late SUM I know! Thanks to all of you who responded to my query about populating a variable with a rowid. Here's my original question: I want to populate an integer variable with the rowid of a selected row, through MapBasic...my first thought was SelectionInfo

MI-L SUM - Off topic GPS Question - Scotland

2003-10-30 Thread Eagle, David A
Thank you all for your responses to my GPS query... * My problem: This is a vague question because I have very vague information at the moment and its posed at those of you who deal with GPS surveying...The surveys I am questioning are in Scotland, Uk. Situation: A vehicle su

MI-L MapInfo 7.5

2003-11-11 Thread Eagle, David A
Can anyone provide me with the exact release date of MapInfo v7.5 please? I can't remember... TIA, Dave This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protected. If you are not the addressee, any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. Unless otherwise expr

MI-L Export to *.TXT

2003-11-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Hello Mappers, On this dull and dreary Monday I would like to output some data to a TXT file or similar (CSV, DBF)... I have written some MB code to report info on a point of interest. When clicked on, attribute info is passed into variables and then displayed on a custom dialog. I want the optio

SUM: MI-L Export to *.TXT

2003-11-21 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, It seems I was going up the garden path after all...Here's a conclusion and my original question below... Here's part of my code: Dim sWhere As String Dim sTXT_File As String sWhere = "WhereOutput\WhereOutput.txt" Open File sAppPath + sWhere For Output As #1

MI-L Thematic Mapping

2003-12-11 Thread Eagle, David A
Help, before I tear my hair out! I'm coding in MB7.5 and am creating a thematic layer...cheating a bit I created it in MI first and then saved it into a workspace. I then grabbed the code made very slight alterations and compiled it. Can anyone tell me what line 6 does and why MB falls over when i

MI-L Altering Map Window Preferences using MapBasic

2004-01-15 Thread Eagle, David A
> Hello Listers... > > This is my first message post since the start of the New Year, so Happy > New Year to you all! > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm using MapInfo 7.5 and > coding an application in MapBasic 7.5 and I want to programmatically > access the Map Window Preference

MI-L WindowID

2004-03-16 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Can anyone tell me if the following is possible? In MapBasic I am opening a map window and naming it "Main" a second window also opens which I call "Overview". Is it possible to get the WindowID of the "Main" window and save it to a variable? Obviously each time I open the window it has

MI-L Close Cartographic Legend

2004-03-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Is there a simple way in MapBasic to close a Cartographic Legend Window, short of finding out how many frames are in it and then closing each one using the Remove Cartographic Frame Statement. If indeed even this is possible! "Close Window Legend" will not work because that refers to a standard le

MI-L SUM: WindowID

2004-03-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Dear All, My post is at the bottom of this mail but basically I wanted to tell MapInfo the 'name' of a window I was interested in and get it to return the ID of that window... Thanks to all of you who replied and special thanks to Peter Horsbøll Møller who provided me with a very neat little func

RE: MI-L Proximity

2004-05-12 Thread Eagle, David A
Peter, How about it indeed... This worked like a charm and I am currently pouring a nice pint of beer into my PC to transmit with this email! Thank you. David -Original Message- From: Peter Horsbøll Møller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 17:38 To: Eagle, David A; [EMAIL

MI-L Proximity

2004-05-11 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I am working on a couple of approaches to this problem but I'd like to see if anyone out there has a solution to this. I have two tables Roads.Tab and Sites.Tab. Each link of the road has an ID and each site has an ID. I would like to output a file that tells me for each link which sites

MI-L Site Location Tool - Waste Management

2004-05-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Can anyone recommend or point me in the direction of an "out-of-the-box" site location tool? A MapInfo bolt on or alternative product... The specific task is for waste management and relates to optimising locations for waste management facilities based on waste source, waste type, road n

RE: MI-L Postcodes

2004-05-21 Thread Eagle, David A
Morning Sarah, You could query the text without the space into a new column but by far the easiest way is to use the search and replace tool to search for a space and then replace with nothing...(I'd create a copy of the column to work on though, so that you have a column with spaces and one witho

MI-L Batch Utils

2004-05-28 Thread Eagle, David A
All, I'm looking for two tools to do batch tasks, can anyone help? I'd like a tool to batch export to MID/MIF and I would also like to append multiple tables with the same structure into one table. Does anyone know if a tool for either process exists? My first skim of the Directionsmag site yield

FW: MI-L NumWindows()

2001-11-30 Thread Eagle, David A
Thank you all for your responses, I had a deluge of prompts and Tim Nuteson and Kevin Wright actually went to the trouble of spelling it out for me, thanks guys! --- Dim iNumWin as SmallInt Dim iNumMaps as SmallInt For iNumWin = 1 to NumWindows() If WindowInfo(i

MI-L Clear Cosmetic Layer

2001-12-03 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, In MB before I run a process I want to Clear the Cosmetic Layer. I am trying: Delete From WindowInfo(FrontWindow(), WIN_INFO_TABLE) However, I'm getting a 'Could not convert data' error when I run it...Does anyone have any ideas where I'm going wrong? Best Regards, David

MI-L Clear Cosmetic Layer

2001-12-03 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Ignore the last posting...turns out that: Delete From WindowInfo(FrontWindow(), WIN_INFO_TABLE) works fine, I just had a problem further up the script...Sorry. Best Regards, David David A. Eagle - GIS Consultant, WS Atkins Consultants Ltd

MI-L Find Selection

2001-12-03 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I am trying to code into my application the ability to zoom into a selected object created on the cosmetic layer. I have done some trawling of the list and have got so far but I'm having problems. Dim sCosmetic As String sCosmetic = LayerInfo(FrontWindow(), 0, LAYER_INFO_NAME) 'I crea

MI-L FileOpenDlg

2001-12-11 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I'm currently writing a small application. I am using FileOpenDlg to navigate to a *.Tab file, I then want update an EditText box with that table name. I can manage to update it with the path but I don't want to show the full path, only the file name. I've included the snippet of code be

RE: MI-L FileOpenDlg

2001-12-11 Thread Eagle, David A
]] Sent: 11 December 2001 15:57 To: 'Eagle, David A'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: MI-L FileOpenDlg David, Can't you use PathToFileName$() function? This returns a filename given a file specification as in: sTab_name = PathToFileName$(sTab_Path) Greg

MI-L Labels in Layouts

2001-12-20 Thread Eagle, David A
Fellow Listers, Has anyone had any problems with MI 6.5 and label visibility in layouts. At the moment if I label place names for example and then switch to the layout view they are not always there. Its not just a 'display thing' either, if I print the layout there are no labels...I even had a c

MI-L Shortening a string value

2002-01-07 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Happy New Year! I have what can only be a simple problem but I can't see the wood for the trees and 'as usual' seem to be taking the long route! I'm writing some MB code and have a String "IndexName:" from which I want to remove the colon and put the string into a new Alias variable as

MI-L FileOpenDlg()

2002-01-15 Thread Eagle, David A
Dear all, I am putting together a small application that requires me to browse my local network for a base table to work with. I have placed a button on my dialog which calls a sub routine 'Browse_Open' to locate the file using FileOpenDlg(). However, once the 'Open Table' dialog is open, if I ch

MI-L Button Focus

2002-01-16 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Does anyone know if in MapBasic there is any consistent way of giving Buttons created in a Dialogs the 'Focus' (if the return key is pressed that button is activated). I have a number of Buttons in my dialog including an OKButton. The OKButton is disabled to begin with so I want the focu

RE: MI-L Aerial Photography

2002-02-11 Thread Eagle, David A
tkins.com > <http://www.aerial.cam.ac.uk/ULM/CUCAP%20Library.htm> -Original Message- From: Vinesh Govind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2002 15:28 To: 'Eagle, David A' Subject: RE: MI-L Aerial Photography Thanks Dave, but I went onto the Cambridge website and noted

MI-L Installation Problems with NT4

2002-04-19 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have an annoying problem...has anyone got an ideas? I am trying to install MI v6.5 on to a HP Omnibook XE2 notebook, 500mhz, 128 ram. It has NT4.0, service pack 6a installed. If I put the CD in and choose to install MI I get a 'MapInfo Professional 6.5 Installer Information' error: 1

MI-L Program error...

2002-06-25 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have a workspace that works without a problem but when I close MapInfo a program error is generated. "MAPINFOW.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created." I am running Win2000 and MI 6.5, can anyone he

MI-L Bus Routes

2002-07-04 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have had a number of requests recently from clients to map some bus routes for them. Bus routes are however a complicated thing to deal with though, as one route may have any number of different services running along it all of which re-route themselves in different directions when you

MI-L Distance between zones

2002-07-24 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have a Table that contains a system of 77 zones covering the UK. Each one has an ID number and a name and I have updated two columns with the X & Y coordinates (British National Grid) of the zones centroid. The problem that I have is distance related because I need to create a matrix t

RE: MI-L Thematic Map

2002-07-24 Thread Eagle, David A
Erin, Within the "Create Thematic Map - Step 3 of 3" dialog box there is a button entitled 'Ranges'. Press it and then choose the drop down menu item '# of Ranges', you will be able to then increase your ranges to 9. Press 'Recalc' to recompute the assignment. HTH, Rgds Dave --

MI-L Distance between Zones - SUM

2002-07-25 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Many thanks for all the responses I received, especially Warren Vick and Laurence Seeff. I used Laurence's suggestion to achieve the result but I'd still like to see your code Warren, just not so urgently now! See below for the process I followed: * Copy your zone file to a new n

MI-L OS Mastermap - Oracle Spatial

2002-07-30 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, A client of ours is looking to utilise the new OS Mastermap data that has superseded OS Landline. They have purchased some initial data but ultimately will purchase UK coverage. MapInfo is one of their GIS packages but they also use three others. Ideally it would be useful to store the d

MI-L National Street Gazetteer - UK

2002-09-02 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Is anyone aware of a vendor for Street Gazetteer data for the uk? I am not part of a highways authority so don't think I can get hold of any data from www.nsg.org.uk . Something similar to that used by Streetmap.co.uk or Multimap.co.uk would be ideal (no doubt expensive but that is not

MI-L Reverse Line Direction

2002-09-03 Thread Eagle, David A
Can someone remind me of the name of the tool that is 'out there' on the Directionsmag website that allows you to reverse the direction of a line/polyline? I believe it will process a selection of lines in one go. Thanks, Dave -- David A. Eagle GIS Con

MI-L Table Structure

2002-09-05 Thread Eagle, David A
Does anyone know of an existing utility that enables the user to export the structure of a Table to a text file or equivalent , i.e. Colname, Type, Index(Y/N)? Thanks, Dave -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Corn

MI-L Reverse Line Direction (SUM)

2002-09-05 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Thanks for all your responses to my request for a tool to reverse the direction of a line (you know who you are!). It seems there are a number on the "market": LINEDIR.MBX; FIXLINE.MBX; and REVERDIR.MBX. I'm taking a look at each in turn to achieve my task. Best regards, Dave --

MI-L Table Structure - SUM

2002-09-05 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, KGM Utilities on DirectionsMag is what is required, kgmv4-11.exe. One of the utilities is called liststru.mbx -- it reports a Tables structure into a text file and it works like a dream. Thanks to Tim Nuteson! Rgds, Dave -- David A. Eagle

RE: MI-L mosaic of multiple rasters

2002-09-09 Thread Eagle, David A
Frank, You should use the 'Seamless Table Manager' Seammgr.mbx, which ships as a standard add on with MI. This will do what you want, just open all the rasters that you want included and then choose 'New Seamless Table...' this will add all the raster tiles to one TAB. You will then be able to se

RE: MI-L table of points

2002-09-13 Thread Eagle, David A
Nick, Make sure your table (MyTable) has at least five columns set up like: RowID, X1, Y1, X2, Y2 Then in your MapBasic window set the coordinate system, I use British National Grid so I enter: set coordsys earth projection 8, 79, "m", -2, 49, 0.9996012717, 40, -10 Then Type: Update

MI-L SQL - Join

2002-10-18 Thread Eagle, David A
Dear all, I'm having an 'end of the day' problem that I know is easy and I also know I have done before but can I remember the syntax? Can I I want to join three tables with an SQL Select. Each table has a column in it that contains a reference number. What do I need to put in the 'Where cla

MI-L Version 7 - What build are we up to?

2002-10-29 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Can anyone tell me what the Build is for a fully patched Version 7 of MI Pro please? Cheers, Dave -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Cornerstone House Stafford Park 13, Telford Shropshire, TF3 3AZ England

MI-L Create new line styles

2002-11-26 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Does anyone know of the existence of a Line Style creator tool similar to 'Symbol.mbx'? I would like to create 2 new line styles. Thanks in advance. Rgds, Dave -- David A. Eagle GIS Consultant Atkins Design Environment & Engineering Cornerst

MI-L SUM - Create new line styles

2002-12-04 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Sorry about the delayed reaction, this is in response to my query of last week regarding creating custom line styles. I got a great number of responses pointing me towards a couple of apps: lineedit.exe MILISTED.exe Special thanks to those of you who took the trouble to actually dig the

MI-L Updating a grid with tile names

2003-01-21 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have a large number of ECW compressed imagery files which I have opened within MI. I have created a grid into which each tile fits. The next step is to update each region that makes up the grid with the file name of each tile that falls within. Does anyone have any possible solutions be

SUM: MI-L Updating a grid with tile names

2003-01-21 Thread Eagle, David A
Greg, Perfect...Thankyou. Dave -Original Message- From: Driver, Greg 9434 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 January 2003 16:21 To: 'Eagle, David A' Subject: RE: MI-L Updating a grid with tile names Dave, If you make a seamless layer of the images then open it

RE: MI-L interactive geology guidebook set up

2001-07-16 Thread Eagle, David A
One solution could be to use MI ProViewer. Just create a workspace that has the data layers setup in it as you wish and use the Hotlink tool to link your external reference books and maps to points on a map. Store all data in one directory and then burn that directory and the Proviewer self-extrac

MI-L Snapping to nodes

2001-08-01 Thread Eagle, David A
Dear all, I have two MI Tables. The first is a Table of roads that was used as the source and the second is a Table that has been created from the roads table by digitising sections of the roads. My problem... Because the source roads table is made up of lots of polylines the autotrace feature

MI-L Hotlinking

2001-08-07 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Using the Hotlink tool is it possible to launch more than one document or media item at the same time from the same table. I want to avoid having multiple tables if possible. I have one digitised road and when I click on it I want to launch a *.jpg and a *.pdf in their associated program

RE: MI-L MI ProViewer - hotlink question

2001-08-14 Thread Eagle, David A
Jacqui, I think that your Hotlinking is not working out because the settings you have made only relate to the multimed.mbx that you are using. In order for MapInfo's Hotlink tool to function as it should you need to make the Hotlink tool look in the right place. On the assumption that you have a

MI-L IF...

2001-09-17 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, In MapBasic I am trying in vain to run an IF statement on a Column of reference numbers to return a Note statement. Basically IF the value entered by the user does not feature in the column, Note "Invalid Ref, enter another!". I keep getting an error: "variable or Field_Ref not defined".

MI-L Slow Workspaces

2001-10-22 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, Sorry for taking so long with this one but I've been preoccupied, here's a summary with thanks! My Question: Going back to a thread that we had last week...Is it possible to issue the 'Set Map Layer 1 Default Zoom' statement in the MB window when layer 1 is a raster layer? I keep gettin

MI-L Internal Error

2001-10-22 Thread Eagle, David A
A quickie...Internal errors, not my favourite Monday Morning wake up call... Does anyone happen to know where I can find out what they mean, "Internal Error 33012" in particular! Thanks again... Dave David A. Eagle, GIS Consultant

MI-L Selections

2001-10-22 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, I have made two selections within some MB script, these queries are now sel1 and sel2 and have the same column structure. Can I Browse the two selections within one browser and if so how? I'm having to do this because I have a feeling my initial select statement got too long, is there a

RE: MI-L

2001-10-24 Thread Eagle, David A
Keith, I think TopoCheck.mbx available on the directionsmag website should do the job, although it is admittedly a while since I used it. Give it a try. Good luck, Dave -Original Message- From: Keith Winpenny ISU CEFAS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 October 2001 14:30 To: '[EMAIL P

RE: MI-L Semi-Transparent

2001-10-24 Thread Eagle, David A
Can't help you with Delorme's highlight featureHowever, if I understand correctly try editing the region style and select any pattern fill other than the solid one and make sure the Background check-box is not checked. HTHs Dave -Original Message- From: Marty Sprenz [mailto:[EMAIL PR

MI-L Duplicates

2001-11-02 Thread Eagle, David A
Dear all, I am trying to delete duplicate records in an MI table and wondered if there was an application available to do this. I searched the discussion list and found a number of entries. The most promising was one from Jacques Paris: JP wrote: It is called SKIMALL, has a doc about strategies

RE: MI-L Selecting streets in a ward

2001-11-19 Thread Eagle, David A
Layer your ward boundaries over the top of your streets layer and select the Boundary Select tool. Now just click on the ward in question and browse from selection. That should do the job! Dave -Original Message- From: Vinesh Govind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 November 2001 15:15

MI-L Line styling

2001-11-27 Thread Eagle, David A
Mappers, I'm sure I have seen something like this on the list in the past but I have searched to no avail. I have 22 bus routes (on different layers) that I have digitised over a map base. Several of the routes overlap each other and in a number of cases up to five of the routes overlap on the sa

MI-L NumWindows()

2001-11-29 Thread Eagle, David A
Listers, In MapBasic the NumWindows() function returns the number of Map, Browse, Graph and Layout windows that are currently open. Does anyone know how I can be more specific. I only need to find out how many 'Map' windows are open...Thanks. Best Regards, David

MI-L SUM: Line styling

2001-11-29 Thread Eagle, David A
David A. Eagle - GIS Consultant, WS Atkins Consultants Ltd Cornerstone House, Stafford Park 13, Telford, TF3 3AZ Tel: (01952) 201234 Fax: (01952) 200981 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Eagle, David A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MapInfo-

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