[Spam] RE: [MI-L] Geocoding UK Postcode Data with MapInfo Pro 8.0

or so already set up as MapInfo points).   Things not matching on postcodes are typically because people have used a zero where they meant an 'o', or put a double blank in the middle of the postcode, or because your geocode table has duplicates in it.   regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout D

RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

y. On the label front some more intelligence about fitting the names in (see MAPublisher Version 7 for example which now has the option to fit the label within the polygon or onto the base line by adjusting the font and letter spacing), and proper curved text. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Dir

[MI-L] [Spam] Google Earth

so how?   Thanks   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 4 - 8th 2006, Intergeo Munich Oct 10-13th 2006 or IMTA World in Singapore, Nov 2006.   The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX, Scotland

[MI-L] Last Chance on MapInfo Upgrades

r versions as well, thus 6.x. 5.x, 4.x etc.   regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 4 - 8th 2006, Intergeo Munich Oct 10-13th 2006 or IMTA World in Singapore, Nov 2006.   The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalh

RE: [MI-L] off topic-- mxd files

buy this separately. I suspect that ArcGIS with all the modules does a fair bit more than MapInfo, but by that stage you will be looking at 6000 pounds versus 1095 pounds. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 4 - 8th 2006, Intergeo Munich Oct 10-13th

[MI-L] CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 0

find out what is the correct datum for your data and then replace the 0 in the co-ord sys statement with the correct number. Don't reproject your data because that will move the positions, and that almost certainly isn't what you want to do. Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit

[MI-L] Winkel Tripel

Title: Auditing edits made to mapinfo tables. Anyone know if Winkel Tripel is a MapInfo supported projection, and if so what the ID number is for the projection?   Thanks   Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 4 - 8th 2006, Intergeo Munich Oct 10-13th 2006

RE: [MI-L] Re: Changing the Bounds Clause

lines had all apparently moved 50cm or so away from the Mastermap points. The solution is to make the bounds smaller which then allows more of the digits to be used for the decimal places and therefore you can have better accuracy. Hope this helps, Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at the

RE: [MI-L] Scandinavia Postcodes

Title: Auditing edits made to mapinfo tables. Dear Uffe,   The address co-ordinates sound interesting. Where would I obtain those from? Money isn't a big issue. Also any ideas about Norway and Sweden?   Thanks   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Cape Town International

[MI-L] Scandanavia Postcodes

down an address to a few hundred metres, but I realise the postcodes in this area are not as detailed as that.   All information will be much appreciated,   regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Cape Town International Book Fair, June 2006, Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 2006

RE: [MI-L] ECW compression and JPG

increase on conversion from LZW tiff into Jpeg or ECW in such cases, and your quality drops dramatically.   I would suspect this is your situation.   Regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Cape Town International Book Fair, June 2006, Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 2006

RE: [MI-L] Data size limits & optimization

Title: Message We used the whole Navteq data for the USA in MapInfo without any bother. This isn't all in one table, though, but divided into 10 regions (e.g. Alaska).   regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Cape Town International Book Fair, June 2006, Frankfurt

RE: [MI-L] Supply of GIS data in UK and Europe compared to US

www.gov.im (and no pesky .uk in there either!) Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at the Cape Town International Book Fair, June 2006, Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 2006, Intergeo Munich Oct 2006 or IMTA World in Singapore, Nov 2006. The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park

RE: [MI-L] Question on Projection of TOPO 7.5 min Maps

y shift or offset) in order to make the co-ordinates on the map more user-friendly.   regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit XYZ at the Cape Town International Book Fair, June 2006, Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 2006, Intergeo Munich Oct 2006 or IMTA World in Singapore, Nov 2006.   The X

RE: [MI-L] Creating Points

One way would be to create a convex hull from the point selection, then get the centroid of the convex hull polygon. I imagine Combine Objects using Attribute would work on your points so you can group them together by shared attribute first. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at

RE: [MI-L] Non Earth projection

using it. Hope this helps Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit us at the International Map Trade Show, 24/25th Feb in the Czech Republic The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX, Scotland, Europe Tel: +44 131 454 0426 Fax: +44 131

[MI-L] Fixing Workspace Paths

would subscribe to MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com and say you think > there may be a script for correcting workspace path names and see what > happens. You can do it one by one as MapInfo will prompt you to find > the new data location, but that is tedious when there are a lot of workspaces.

RE: [MI-L] Submitting MI tables to an Arcview user

older - how about upgrading? There is quite a lot in 8.0 that is useful). Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit us at the International Map Trade Show, 24/25th Feb in the Czech Republic The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX

RE: [MI-L] Re: TFW to TAB converter for MI 4.5?

in y. Do you think the pixel size is really 0.5 of a mm? Or from looking at line 5 is the image unprojected and in decimal degrees? Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit us at the International Map Trade Show, 24/25th Feb in the Czech Republic The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase

RE: [MI-L] concurrent licensing for MIPro

I don't have much experience with large installations. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit us at the International Map Trade Show, 24/25th Feb in the Czech Republic The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX, Scotland, E

RE: [MI-L] google earth and MI

rectangular and easier to deal with.   I have been following this discussion with some interest and we are now offering our datasets, like Postcode boundaries, in Google format.   Regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideout Director   Visit us at the AGI Scotland Event - Edinburgh 1st December

RE: [Mapinfo-l] Seamless Tables Cannot be Opened as Seamless

e the seamless table files. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at the AGI Scotland Event in Edinburgh on December 1st. The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road Dalkeith Scotland EH22 3NX Tel +44 131 454 0426 Fax +44 131 454 0443 Mobile + 44

RE: [Mapinfo-l] FW: GPS Geotrack and British National Grid

Dear Bob, Yes I realise this. However I have also heard from Oliver that the error is over 150 metres, so there is something much more fundamental. I suspect maybe the projection or datum has been set incorrectly when the data was loaded. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at

[Mapinfo-l] FW: GPS Geotrack and British National Grid

t in ArcView 3!   If anyone isn't sure they know everything about MapInfo that they would like to know, then you are welcome to look at our training course outline and particulars at www.xyzmaps.com. The prices are pretty reasonable and we cover a lot of ground.   regards   Tim   Dr Tim Rideou

MI-L Google Earth

their own? It seems very fast with all the images however they do it. One of the benefits of having a few tens of billions of dollars burning a hole in your back pocket. Many thanks Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit us at the AGI Scotland Event - Edinburgh 1st December. The XYZ

RE: MI-L composite European satellite image

Yes, see www.earthetc.com and look at the world images section. The terrabyte image is Landsat for the entire world as a single image. Install the ECW plugin for MapInfo and you can open it across the web by using the url. Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit us at the AGI Scotland Event

MI-L GPS for MapInfo

Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation on which GPS is best to use with MapInfo or does it not matter much? Thanks Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at the Frankfurt Book Fair - Hall 3.1 Stand L673 - Party Night 5pm Thursday 20th for a Whisky Tasting. The XYZ Digital

RE: MI-L Workspace backwards compatibility 6.5 > 6.0> 5.5

e.g. 6.0 instead will solve the problem. So far as I can see this is to encourage you to upgrade. It would be more helpful if it made the version the oldest that was compatible. Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director Visit XYZ at the Frankfurt Book Fair - Hall 3.1 Stand L673 - Party Night 5pm Thursday 20th

MI-L MapInfo v ArcGis

your sales), less technical, while Arc is more specialist, more for the techy, has more (costly) extensions, etc. Thanks in advance, Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road Dalkeith Scotland EH22 3NX Tel +44 131 454

RE: MI-L MS Access

isn't ArcGIS then it is some other system I have come across recently. They are held as BLOGs, I think. Regards, and thanks for all your help, Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX, Scotland, Europe

MI-L MS Access

Dr Tim Rideout Director Dear All, Probably a simple question. I have sorted how to keep my data in MS Access and then get MapInfo to connect and display it. This works fine for Access tables which just have a single map point per record. Does Access also support Line and Polygon objects, or

RE: MI-L maps of Spain

Dear Cathy, They are not free, but they are not expensive either. We do a Spain/Portugal extract from our Europe database, and it is all in MapInfo format if you wish. We also have Illustrator and raster versions. See www.xyzmaps.com Regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director The XYZ Digital Map

MI-L UK Postcodes

regards Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park, Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith, EH22 3NX, Scotland Tel: +44 131 454 0426 Fax: +44 131 454 0443 Mobile +44 7766 825937 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.xyzmaps.com From: "Randy Wilson&quo