RE: [MI-L] Determining how many polygons occupy the same area

2006-04-21 Thread Jacques Paris
Two different problems   1 - generating a “one-thick” mosaics from a set of partially overlapping polygons   The principle I would use is simple but must be carefully implemented: -select first polygon and set target -select all over remaining polygons and split -select all over poly

RE: [MI-L] Determining how many polygons occupy the same area

2006-04-23 Thread Llewellyn, David
Alan,   I had a project to do something like this and wrote a MapBasic program to do it (description below). I would be happy to forward you the source and or exe if you are interested. Note that the program could take quite a long time to run depending on the complexity of the table of

Re: [MI-L] Determining how many polygons occupy the same area

2006-04-24 Thread Michel Wurtz
It could be done fairly easely with the help of a little SQL. I have not the name of all function, because I use a french version of MapInfo :-) 1- create a new table (test.tab) with 2 colomns ID an NB (both integer) and in this ORDER... 2- select all objects in your original layer (I will cal

Re: [MI-L] Determining how many polygons occupy the same area

2006-05-05 Thread Andy Harfoot
Alan Silvester wrote: Dear List, Does anybody know how I can work out how many polygons cover the same area? I have a layer of polygons that overlap one another in various places. I need to cookie cut them into one another so I am left with a layer of smaller polygons and determine how man