Re: MI-L Label Expressions

2001-09-19 Thread Russell Mincher
No but you could create a new (temporary) column with the values that are to be used in the labels then label on that temporary column - Original Message - From: "Cameron Crum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Carlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "MapInfo-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday,

Re: MI-L Geographic Tracker Time Lag

2001-07-15 Thread Russell Mincher
I tried it in a helicopter about 18 months ago and found a similar problem although from memory, I thought the lag was even greater. I know that the update interval was not the problem, I checked that out fairly early in the piece (helicopter hovering while I tap madly on the laptop. I assumed

Re: MI-L topology, area calculations and the coincidence of lines

2001-03-12 Thread Russell Mincher
I cant see how the precision should be causing you that problem, if there is a node for another polygon there, the node should snap to it happily. It seems more likely that they do not appear to share the boundary because one polygon has fewer nodes on that boundary than the other or they are no

Re: MI-L Registering raster files

2001-03-08 Thread Russell Mincher
Find a good bitmap handler and rotate the raw image back so that it appears correctly oriennted on screen, then re-register Control points are so that MapInfo can line your tables up with the bitmap, not the other way around I'm afraid The alternative is to scan your map in smaller chunks that y

Re: MI-L metric v. non metric

2001-02-27 Thread Russell Mincher
- Original Message - From: "Trey Pattillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MapInfo List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: Re: MI-L metric v. non metric SNIP- > I prefer 20010226, it sorts correctly. 20th January 226? What are you mapping, roman t

Re: MI-L Creating a line offset

2000-12-18 Thread Russell Mincher
Consider creating a buffer the correct distance out from your line and converting it to a polyline You can then make the choice as to whether you use a portion of the buffer in situ or simply duplicate your original line and shift it to the position now marked by the buffer. Another alternative

Re: MI-L MBCoder Update 11/30/2000 - back off Jeff

2000-12-03 Thread Russell Mincher
Trey and John, you have my support 100%, I have presumed that I have no use for the MB Coder because I haven't access to MB (feel free to correct me if I am wrong), but I have watched the thread jealously and with great interest and continue to marvel at the amount of work Trey is putting int

Re: MI-L Identifying coordinates at the nodes of polylines.

2000-10-16 Thread Russell Mincher
Export them to a MIF It helps to have each one identified in a Fiel;d, you can then use the accompanying MID to idenfity which is which (the order is the same) Cheers Russ - Original Message - From: "Allan Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2

Re: MI-L Legend

2000-09-28 Thread Russell Mincher
If you are putting the text on a layer (ie. in a table) that is visible in other mapper windows the changes to that table will be reflected in each mapper that the table is visible in (except for the cosmetic layer which is exclusive to the individual mapper). Could you be putting your map label