MI-L Ang. MI-L Find funtion greyed out

Hi Norman! Make sure the columns you want to find/search on are indexed. Hälsning / Best regards Mats.E FB Engineering AB Södra Förstadsgatan 26 211 43 Malmö Tel: 040-660 25 50 Mobil: 0705-27 60 27 Fax: 040-660 25 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fbe.se

MI-L Ang. MI-L Shapefile Opening

Hi Tim! A shapefile per se does not contain any projection information. I have always wondered how on earth one can specify a GIS data interchange format without that. (nowadays I understand ESRI attaches a prj file to remedy this deficiency) Anyway, you need to know that the shapefile is ind

MI-L Ang. Re: MI-L - GIS-L

Imho, some of the better OT threads of this list are pretty far out. Hälsning / Best regards Mats.E FB Engineering AB Södra Förstadsgatan 26 211 43 Malmö Tel: 040-660 25 50 Mobil: 0705-27 60 27 Fax: 040-660 25 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fbe.se Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTE

MI-L Ang. MI-L DXF To TAB

Hi Hendrik! First, make sure that you really haven't lost anything in the translation. But you seem confident about that. The fact is that the DXF format contains a tremendous amount of whitespace and I am not surprised by the ratio you indicate. Try compressing the DXF file into a zip file, and

MI-L Ang. MI-L MapInfo Grid - minimum cell size limitations

Hi Scott! Although I'm unsure what you mean by 'gridding' I would like to point out a possible explanation. Behind the scene, Mapinfo uses its own grid which simply put can hold one, and only one, coordinate pair per cell. The grid has a finite number of cells and the absolute size of the cells

MI-L Ang. MI-L slow operation with snap in Version 7.5

Hi Robert! The circle you see is a new feature in MI Pro, it shows the snap radius, in your case 5 pixels. Very useful when snapping to proximate objects because you get a feeling for how much you need to zoom in in order to get the snap tolerance below the distance between the object. But thi

MI-L Ang. MI-L FW: SAVE LAYOUT WINDOW AS JPEG - FILE SIZE LIMITATIONS

Hi Jocelyn! First of all, let me remind you of the hardcoded limitation MapInfo has on large outputs. On Friday, August 13, 2004, Cinda Graubard from GeoMax wrote to this list: MapInfo tech support has confirmed what a client recently stated: MapInfo has a hard wired printing limitation of 28,00

MI-L Ang. MI-L Cosmetic Layer Object Order

Hi Tony! What do you mean by this line? "the first object obtained from the table created by save cosmetic objects. " Do not excpect this to be the first rowid of the table view. As has been pointed out many times on this list, there is no correlation between the order of attribute rows and th

MI-L Ang. MI-L Translating Shape files, which files are necessary

Hi David! Just go for the *.shp file - the other ones are used as needed. Much like a *.tab file has a *.map, a*.dat and an *.idcompanion. Note that I do not believe that UT can use the *.prj file. I'ts a late addition by ESRI when they discovered people were using the shape file format for geo

MI-L Ang. MI-L MapInfo ProViewer 7.8 error

I am running Windows 2000 here and had no problem with the process. The exe file is a self extracting zip archive. Perhaps it has been created with older/newer bin components that your OS does not like. Try unzipping it manually, I tested both WinZip and WinRar and both could extract the setup a

MI-L Ang. MI-L Labels Moving improperly

Hi Philip! I'm guessing that your workspaces use custom labels, i e where the user has dragged or altered the label for cartographic purposes. The backside of this is that such adjusted labels reference the RowID of their mother object, not any other identifying feature of the object, and that

MI-L Ang. MI-L Thematic Bubble Map Question

Hi Josh! A common misconception, perhaps due to an unclear GUI of graduated symbols (bubble map?). The 'three grades' are only samples, and intermediate bubble sizes will be created as needed. You only get to select the symbol size for one value and have to play around with that to match your

MI-L Ang. MI-L Scaling the Layout Page

Hi John! First, there is really nothing that stops you from creating layout objects beyond the 'paper surface' in the layout window, even if it will look funny. Secondly, you can install a printer driver that handles A0 without being physically in contact with such a plotter. Look for HP or Canon

MI-L Ang. RE: MI-L Alternative Text Editor to native MapBasic

Hmm - had to look into this matter. What is Vim? So I found www.vim.org only to read Vim voted best text editor again [2004-11-17] The Linux Journal magazine does a Readers' Choice Award every year. For the fourth time in a row Vim was selected the favorite text editor! Vi and clones came seco

MI-L RE: MapInfo and ArcView and learning curves

Hi All! In this thread, and on similar occasions, the expresseion 'steep learning curve' has been used. >From the context, this usually seems to indicate something less desirable, but the metaphor is unclear. The way I see it is as a x-y diagram with a time axis and a 'knowledge' or ability

MI-L Mixed entity types - Differences between MapInfo and ArcView

Hi Lars - and the list! I would like to offer another point of view on this question. I have always regarded the ability to mix object types in a MapInfo table as a great advantage. The advantage of being able to store geographic information grouped on subject matter, rather than its more or les

MI-L Ang. MI-L Help with projections, please

Hi Dave! You are fortunate in that these maps have a very good graticule which of course makes the task so much easier. But understand that MI does not warp or alter raster images in any way. Instead, it warps overlaid vector tables to fit the raster, and the fit is determined by the information

MI-L Ang. MI-L Ends of buffer

Hi Ian! Maybe it's a silly notion, but I am thinking negative buffers here. If you are lucky in that the buffers have been created with an equal distance from their mother object, a negative buffer of a slightly smaller measure will create a very narrow region object which, given a suitable lin

MI-L Ang. MI-L MrSID files in MapInfo

Hi Adreeta! You are quite right, and this problem goes for geotiffs and ecw files as well, or more precisely, the word files connected to those formats. In august last year I wrote under the subject heading: Re: MI-L Ang. MI-L Behaviour of ECW/ERS files in Mapinfo "But look out for the half-pix

MI-L Ang. MI-L Mapinfo Microstation

Hi Robert! If the design file is version 7, it can easily be imported with the built in Universal Translator which does a pretty good job. On the other hand, if it's V8, UT will balk and you will need help converting it to V7 which can be done with MicroStation. I see no reason to use Autocad as

MI-L Ang. MI-L Cloning Map Windows using MapBasic

Hi David! I would have used something like Run Command WindowInfo(winid, WIN_INFO_CLONEWINDOW) which to my knowledge also clones present thematic layers. You can test it from the MapBasic window by entering Run Command WindowInfo(FrontWindow(), 15) when you have the map window to clone u

MI-L Ang. MI-L Problems opening WOR from 7.8 to 7.0

Hi Sarah! No, I do not think there is anything wrong in your installation, and that everything works as intended from MapInfos point of view. It's not only a question of which version created the workspace, but also what it contains. Check the first three lines in the workspace file. You will f

MI-L Ang. MI-L Buffer greater than default resolution

Hi David! You could try this: Make a circle with the circle tool, then convert it to a region object. You will get a ridiculous number of nodes but I don't know if it will be enough for you. Complete smoothness will be achieved only if you convert the circle to a polyline with applied smoothnes

MI-L MI version 8 : [was MI-L Translating AutoCAD Map *.DWG]

Hi All! Glad to hear news that v8 will take care of that problem, but sad to understand that MI Corp apparently has seen no need to run this version for beta test among us users. Neither is there any forum for v8 at the developers site. Hälsning / Best regards Mats.E FB

MI-L Ang. MI-L GeoTIFF and MapInfo

Hi Alex! MI does not understand geotiff in the sense that it reads the georeferencing in the file. Instead, MI has to rely on so called world files which contain the coordinate data. These do no to care about projections, they carry only one refererence point, pixel size, and a rotation. Now to

MI-L GeoTiffs and MapInfo

Hi All! I would like to offer my humble apologies and hereby stand corrected. A shall go and find a pointed paper hat and stand in the corner. Yesterday I claimed in a reply to Alex Philippov that MI Pro did not read GeoTiff files. This was false. Bill Wemple from MI has kindly corrected me and