Re: MI-L cartographic design

Following up: I got a call from a graphics person at the NY Times - evidently they used Adobe Illustrator for this series, but welcome another solution, which I told him may be MAPublisher (not affiliated, etc., but another list member suggested it might be suitable to that task). Josh __

MI-L cartographic design

Today's New York Times has a couple of neat maps. They depict data variables (in this case relating to AIDS) for the US and the world, but they approximate the actual shape of each region, and vary the size of each region according to the variable. Each region is composed of blocks in a grid fash

Re: MI-L Proximity Analysis

Uffe Kousgaard's NearestNode application uses a DLL to find the closest store for a given ZIP code (or any other nearest node application). I think it's at Directions Mag. It's extremely fast. He also has a version that uses only MapBasic. Josh >Anyone know how, in Mapinfo (5.5) to get a cust

MI-L Port database followup

my apologies and belated thanks for your assistance. I know that when I am asked for an offer help, it's nice to be acknowledged so pardon my faux pas. Best regards, Joshua Ostroff Virtual Media Resources ___ List ho

MI-L nearest distance / fastest solution

A deep bow to Uffe Kousgaard, whose NearestNode application using a DLL to find the closest store for a given ZIP code (or any other nearest node application) is so much faster than any alternative. Thanks Uffe, I'll cheer for Denmark at the next Olympics! Josh Find it at

MI-L Re: Congressional Redistricting

Three points: First, it's an exercise in politics, so the party in power will seek to protect or increase its advantage by fragmenting the opposition, defined by whatever means but usually as voters for X party. Second, if you have skills to offer, there's probably an opportunity to consult or

MI-L World seaport database

Is there a geographic database of world seaports available that anyone can recommend? Alternatively, a database of world cities. Thanks for any suggestions. World Airport and City Locations is in the directionsmag database, but its accuracy is uncertain, so I'd welcome comments by anyone who ha

RE: MI-L Buffer size

Save a copy of the table, then on the copy open the mapbasic window, make the layer editable, select all objects (in the query menu) and enter the following in the mapbasic window update [tablename] set obj = createcircle (CentroidX(obj), CentroidY(obj), [new radius], "unit of distance"*) * I'm