Re: [MI-L] UPDATE QUERY ..............

2006-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter, If ROADseg is definied as a float, you won't be able to do the update with an underscore. If it's a char field, try: update TABLENAME set ROADseg = ROADNO+"_"+SEGNO or update TABLENAME set ROADseg = ROADNO+"/"+SEGNO or update TABLENAME set ROADseg =ROADNO+"."+SEGNO If it's importa

RE: [MI-L] OT: ESRI geocoding

2006-10-28 Thread David Reid
Reading from the 9-1-1 book of horrors, Trey quoted: "Our 911 locations are moving to a vendor provided mapping solution [not my choice but mandated my the money people at the state]" Stoppit!!! Your scaring me!!! Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [MI-L] feature wish list - Vertical Mapper

2006-10-27 Thread Jakob Lanstorp
4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Flavio Hendry Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:30 AM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] feature wish list - Vertical Mapper Hi all there is

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

2006-10-27 Thread Tim Rideout
Segun,   I am not sure what you are geo-coding your addresses to if you are using postcode polygons - sectors? Would you not be better using a point file such as the Royal Mail PostZon 2 million points with one for each postcode and to +/- a 100 metres? It isn't very expensive (£400 or so alr

RE: [MI-L] help matching uscnty to uszip data

2006-10-27 Thread David Reid
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] help matching uscnty to uszip data Add a column called county to the zip code table. Make the zip layer editable, then update column county from table county. Each zip will then have the associated county with it

RE: [MI-L] help matching uscnty to uszip data

2006-10-27 Thread Hankins, Michael D.
Add a column called county to the zip code table. Make the zip layer editable, then update column county from table county. Each zip will then have the associated county with it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wells Sent: Friday, O

RE: [MI-L] RE: ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic)(RobertCrossley)

2006-10-27 Thread Evan MacDougall
s M. Kelly Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] RE: ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic)(RobertCrossley) Jonathan There is a little bit of information on using MapInfo with Oracle within the MapInfo

RE: [MI-L] Map Basic Dialogs: Parent Child relationships betweencontrols

2006-10-27 Thread Jacques Paris
Here is some code explaining a way to do it lTableList contains the semicolon separated names of all open tables. The index of the selection is kept in goal lColList contains the column names as generated by TABL for the selected table. The index of the selected column is stored in goal. Both

RE: [MI-L] Map Basic Dialogs: Parent Child relationships betweencontrols

2006-10-27 Thread Spencer Simpson
Yes, the handler for the first list box can clear out the second one and refill it based upon the first list box's selection. Hope this helps Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Searle, Kevin Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:45 AM To:

Re: [MI-L] Mapbasic and Delphi 2005 Dll

2006-10-27 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
I have updated your code to properly show a form using Delphi 2005 (or any other Delphi for that matter). The mapbasic declaration looks like this: Declare Sub AssetForm Lib "somename.dll" Regards Uffe - Original Message - From: Nathan Woodrow To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Se

RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List - UT GDB

2006-10-27 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Mike > I think that the FME product (of which Universal Translator is a > subset) > requires an ESRI product installed on the client for GeoDatabase > translation. depends wich you mean, there are now three you there: - personal geodatabase (ms access based), FME requires ArcGIS installed - SD

RE: [MI-L] RE: ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic) (RobertCrossley)

2006-10-26 Thread James M. Kelly
ially and would appreciate any links or other pointers to info on this. Thank you! Jonathan -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:00 +1000 From: "Robert Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MI-L] ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off

RE: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-26 Thread Will Mitchell
307 m. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jchgis.com > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Neil Havermale > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 4:47

RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery

2006-10-26 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Anthony you are right, Karen is mixing up Discover and Discovery. To make it clear: - Discover is a MapInfo Pro geoscience-extension from Encom, see http://www.encom.com.au/template2.asp?pageid=9 - Discovery is a Web Mapping Environment from MapInfo, see http://extranet.mapinfo.com/products/O

RE: [MI-L] Memory usage in MI 8.5

2006-10-26 Thread Norm Shea
, Kiawah Island, SC 29455Phone 843-768-2315  Fax 843-768-0298  Mobile 843-708-3608[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- www.kiawah-owners.org   From: Ian Tidy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 19:41To: Norm SheaSubject: RE: [MI-L] Memory usage in MI 8.5 Norm,   Make sure the NVidia

RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery

2006-10-26 Thread Caroline Hilton
mes! Which one were you interested in? Caroline -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Atchison Sent: 26 October 2006 09:55 To: Arlene Baker; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery I've found d

RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery

2006-10-26 Thread Anthony Greenish
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Atchison Sent: 26 October 2006 04:55 To: Arlene Baker; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery I've found discovery very useful with producing scaled layout plots but it depends on your usage requirements Karen Atc

Re: [MI-L] What is Project Grande ?

2006-10-26 Thread Flavio Hendry
Ciao Giuseppe > What is Projet Grande ? It I'll be useful for all users ? Project Grande is gone ... see previous mails in the list. > I should like Mapinfo improve new features CAD If you really need professional CAD, MapInfo is not the right product. In this case you should look out fo

RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery

2006-10-26 Thread Karen Atchison
ECTED] www.egoldfields.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Flavio Hendry Sent: 26 October 2006 07:27 To: Arlene Baker; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery Hi Arlene It is basically a cut down version of Ma

Re: [MI-L] New Features Wish List

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Young
Hi Andy and List Looking at some of these suggestions very positivey I think generally they show some of the very good strengths of the original MapInfo Professional product and its general approach. The purchase price/performance point was /is good and the ability for third parties to devel

Re: [MI-L] ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic)

2006-10-26 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
From: "Robert Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To me, a lot of the attractiveness of the Arc personal database is its encapsulation of the objects within a data record, giving better data integrity and allowing you to maintain both the data and the spatial objects from Access or MapInfo (or am I wr

Re: [MI-L] Easy queation. Zoom to selected

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Juan - Progess -
  - Thamks to everybody for your answers. I knew it was easy but I couldn't find it.   R. ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l

Re: [MI-L] United Sates National Grid

2006-10-26 Thread Lars I. Nielsen (GisPro)
Hi Michael, I'm not from the US, but I'm generally interested in MapInfo and grids. After Googling a 6 page pamphlet that explains the grid, I found that it was similar to MGRS, Miitary Grid Reference System. And MapInfo supports MGRS internally ! The 9 zones used in USNG equals the UTM zone

RE: [MI-L] Easy queation. Zoom to selected

2006-10-25 Thread Mehmet HINÇ
Yeah you’re right. That’s the CTRL+G …. J   From: Evan MacDougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:30 AM To: Mehmet HINÇ; Robert Juan - Progess -; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] Easy queation. Zoom to selected   Ctrl+A?  I

Re: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery

2006-10-25 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Arlene It is basically a cut down version of MapInfo MapXtreme Windows. As far as I know, it uses HahtSite, an OEM application environment which is pretty outdated (I think it doesn't even exist anymore). Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards Flavio Hendry

RE: [MI-L] ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic)

2006-10-25 Thread Robert Crossley
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com > Subject: Re: [MI-L] ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic) > > On 10/24/06, SCISOFT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I may be wrong in some of the following - if so, please feel fr

RE: [MI-L] Easy queation. Zoom to selected

2006-10-25 Thread Evan MacDougall
25, 2006 2:01 PM To: 'Robert Juan - Progess -'; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] Easy queation. Zoom to selected   You have lots of choices. First, select record and press CTRL+A and the selected object will be in the middle of the map window. Second, use sql or n

Re: [MI-L] MapInfo setting/changing table Projections

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Greenwood
On 10/25/06, Anthony Greenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List I have received a vector file that was originally digitized in user coordinates and then projected into geographic ones. When I open the table in Mapinfo it registers where it should but if I bring it into another program like

RE: [MI-L] MapInfo setting/changing table Projections

2006-10-25 Thread Mehmet HINÇ
First be sure your mapinfo tables are geographic coordinated and their coordinates are true and then use universal translator ( which is a small tool coming with mapinfo ) to convert your mapinfo table to the Esri shape or another file format... If your source mapinfo tables do not have a fixed coo

RE: [MI-L] Easy queation. Zoom to selected

2006-10-25 Thread Mehmet HINÇ
You have lots of choices. First, select record and press CTRL+A and the selected object will be in the middle of the map window. Second, use sql or normal select tool or display the selection table and then, it will be in the lookup table ( also known as a temporary table ) so you can add

RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

2006-10-25 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
] On Behalf Of Tim Rideout Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:36 PM To: 'Mapinfo-L' Subject: RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List I think the text labelling and the layouts require upgrading. Neither has been touched for years and they have slipped behind. For example you always seem to have to

RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

2006-10-25 Thread Tim Rideout
7766 825937 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Reid Sent: 25 October 2006 07:49 To: 'Mapinfo-L' Subject: Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List I've been watching the "Feature..." thread and don

[Spam] RE: [MI-L] Measuring Distance between two points

2006-10-25 Thread Ian Farrelly
Karl,   Try using the Distance Calculater mbx:   Go to: Tools>Run MapBasic Program Select: DistanceCalc.MBX   If you then go back to the Tools menu a “Distance Calculator” field will be added.  If you then select “Run Distance Calculator” from this menu, a new pane will appear that s

Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

2006-10-25 Thread David Reid
I've been watching the "Feature..." thread and don't recall this one little item... That is to add the [IF] functionality to SQL capabilities of the Query and Label builders Ex: IF (FEATURE LIKE "Mapinfo adds IF and other functionality and fixes"), Print("Happy Mapinfo Customer" +chr$(10)+

Re: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF

2006-10-24 Thread Leith . Britt
Ben, Here is a screen shot of my setting  under options > preferences > Output Settings Then I use a pdf print driver. PDF995 is the one I use. I would think you would be able to use the Acrobat Distiller. Hope this helps, let me know. Leith C. Britt Town of Cary Technology Services GIS

Re: [MI-L] Mapbasic and Delphi 2005 Dll

2006-10-24 Thread Trey
The mail from Monday I sent from the office got lost some where so I do it again. You can go to my web site in the download section and get UltraMsg I wrote this back in 1999 and the zip file has all the source and examples for MBX's. About half way down the page: http://www.wap3.com/download/i

RE: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-24 Thread Jim Henry
1, 2006 4:47 PM > To: David Reid; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mapinfo-L > Subject: RE: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx > > I would suggest the end of the era of a cabled GPS device > needs a bit more exposure. While personal hand-held > navigation units like the Geko and other-lik

Re: [MI-L] ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic)

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Greenwood
On 10/24/06, SCISOFT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I may be wrong in some of the following – if so, please feel free to correct it. I don't use ESRI products. But I think that there are several people with misapprehensions about the ESRI Geodatabase containers. Recent posts about a rejuvenated

Re: [MI-L] Finding folders under a root folder

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Thoen
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:50:28PM +0100, Anirban Acharya wrote: > Is there any readily available method to find the list of Folders or > files under a certain directory using MapBasic by passing the root > folder? I assume you mean, "with MapBasic". If so, the trick is to use the Windows API fun

Re: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF

2006-10-24 Thread Joe Barreca
At 01:11 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote: Hi all, Has anyone used raster transparency in MI and successfully printed this transparency to PDF (I'm using Adobe Acrobat (full version))? I'm having horrendous problems trying to stop adobe from ignoring the transparency set in MI. Ben Ben: Not to beat a de

Re: [MI-L] Open Source Donation

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Young
customers for storing their own data !!   Food for thought...   Regards   Bob   - Original Message - From: SCISOFT To: 'Bob Young' ; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:42 PM Subject: RE: [MI-L] Open Source Donation

RE: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF

2006-10-24 Thread Anthony Hicke
We also have this transparency problem. We also have a problem with shaded regions; PDF turns the small dots into larger squares. What we do is, SAVE WINDOW AS to a jpeg of at least 300 dpi. Then, we open the jpeg in Adobe Acrobat, save as a pdf file, and use the REDUCE FILE SIZE command in Acro

RE: [MI-L] Open Source Donation

2006-10-24 Thread SCISOFT
Bob, that’s very interesting. Can you point me to the URL? IL Thomas GeoSciSoft  - Perth, Australia From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Young Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:44 PM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: [MI-L] Open Sour

Re: [MI-L] Open Source Donation

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Thoen
Bob Young wrote: > I thought it was interesting to read that last week, at the very time Ian > Thomas and a few other list members discussed Open Source on the MapInfo > List, Sean O'Sullivan who was one of the original founders of MapInfo, > donated $2 million for Open Software development to RPI

RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List - Geodatabase Translator

2006-10-24 Thread SCISOFT
D] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 7:17 AM To: Mike Osbourn Cc: Mapinfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List - Geodatabase Translator   On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 05:55:20PM -0400, Mike Osbourn wrote: > I think that the FM

RE: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF

2006-10-24 Thread Matthews, Barbara
I have not had any success printing transparency to PDF. I work around it by saving window as JPG and then converting the JPG to PDF if needed. It's not elegant, but it retains the transparency. -Original Message- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:11:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Crane <[EMA

Re: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF

2006-10-24 Thread Flavio Hendry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ben Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Cc: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:20:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF > Good luck with that. You best best really is to export a tab or > mid/mif

Vedr.: RE: [MI-L] feature wish list - Vertical Mapper

2006-10-24 Thread Ole Gregor
Emne RE: [MI-L] feature wish list - Vertical Mapper

Re: [MI-L] Raster transparency converting effectively into PDF

2006-10-24 Thread Ted Florence
Good luck with that. You best best really is to export a tab or mid/mif and then import those files to Illustrator using MAPublisher and then finishing the map and save a pdf right out of Illustrator. Ben Crane wrote: Hi all, Has anyone used raster transparency in MI and successfully printed

RE: [MI-L] RE: Using labelfindbyID

2006-10-24 Thread Wilton, David \(Capita Symonds\)
Title: RE: [MI-L] RE: Using labelfindbyID Many thanks Greg and Maurice using an SQL is exactly what I should have done David, You might be better building your SQL statement in a string and then using the Run Command statement to issue it: Dim sSQLCmd As String sSQLCmd = "select *

RE: [MI-L] feature wish list - Vertical Mapper

2006-10-24 Thread Lawley, Russell S
lue-adding' exercise by MI corp and one that they could afford..) Russel Lawley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Flavio Hendry Sent: 23 October 2006 07:30 To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] feature wish list -

Re: [MI-L] variable or field not defined

2006-10-23 Thread Bob Young
Title: variable or field not defined Dear Ryan   I suspect the structure of one of your tables has been changed. Therefore the following message posted by Peter in just the last few days is almost certainly the answer. I enclose Peters posting below. Shows you can learn a lot from reading all

RE: [MI-L] Using labelfindbyID

2006-10-23 Thread Spencer Simpson
You may find that LabelInfo(LABEL_INFO_DRAWN) is set to FALSE for those labels. HTH Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilton, David (Capita Symonds) Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:59 AM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Sub

Re: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-23 Thread Bob Young
ike the current zoom layering would be the best for users.   Regards     Bob MapsByDesign           - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:40 PM

RE: [MI-L] feature wish list - Vertical Mapper

2006-10-22 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi all there is the often mentioned wish to integrate Vertical Mapper. I wonder why, as this products is completely outdated and full of bugs, such as: - does not work at all on large datasets - vectorizing of contours and slope etc. does not work or is extremely slow, results are poor (compared w

Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List - UT/FME

2006-10-22 Thread Flavio Hendry
hi eric > About universal translator.. I wonder if MapInfo could strike a deal > with safe software.. http://www.safe.com/. Although I've never tried > FME I have heard very positive feedback from users. UT is FME ... and you are right, FME is simply fantastic! ciao flavio _

Re: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-22 Thread Tony Baylis
care of the Bluetooth connection. MidNight Mapper aka neil http://redhen-iswhere.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Reid Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mapinfo-L' Subject:

Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List - Geodatabase Translator

2006-10-22 Thread Bill Thoen
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 05:55:20PM -0400, Mike Osbourn wrote: > I think that the FME product (of which Universal Translator is a subset) > requires an ESRI product installed on the client for GeoDatabase > translation. > > I would love to be corrected on this if I'm wrong. I think it needs an Acc

RE: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

2006-10-22 Thread Mike Osbourn
ats Elfstr?m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MI-L] feature wish list To: "'Bill Thoen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi All! Adding to the wish list, which I feel is o

Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

2006-10-22 Thread Eric Gagnon
) 3. Re: feature wish list (Data Directions) 4. [Spam] Google Earth (Tim Rideout) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:12:55 +0200 From: Mats Elfstr?m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MI-L] feature wish list To: &q

Re: [MI-L] Feature Wish List

2006-10-22 Thread Richard Greenwood
On 10/22/06, Chuck Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mat Elfstrőm's wish list specifies two items I think are essential. Routing capabilities and adding MapBasic to the core product. I think the Universal Translator should be updated and provisions made to allow import and export of ESRI's new

Re: [MI-L] feature wish list

2006-10-22 Thread Data Directions
Further to Richards observation, I also agree that MapInfo should provide the MapInfo-L community with their proposed plans for MapInfo, especially since myself (and others) decided to subscribe to the annual maintenance program primarily because of "the imminent arrival of Grande". One of the

Re: [MI-L] feature wish list

2006-10-21 Thread Richard Greenwood
+46 46 145959, +46 70 595 3935 : ::: -- Forwarded message -- From: "Bill Thoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:23:24 +0200 Subject: Re: [MI-L] fe

RE: [MI-L] feature wish list

2006-10-21 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi All! Adding to the wish list, which I feel is of utmost importance if MapInfo Corp really wants to enhance the next release (if Project Grande has made its grand exit). I think there are those who are fed up with upgrades which only add cosmetic changes. They really must make it worthwhile to

Re: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-21 Thread Bob Young
CTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:40 PM Subject: Re: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug Lars and all, This bug has nothing to do with the fact that a workspace is a script/macro. And the decision of whether to write out unused p

Re: [MI-L] feature wish list

2006-10-21 Thread Bill Thoen
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:27:35PM +0100, Lawley, Russell S wrote: > heres mine: > > better pattern/colour /font support for all objects > > some proper tools for making layouts that dont look like they have been > drawn by an amatuer with a crayon(including proper map-graticules and > wysiwyg leg

RE: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-21 Thread Neil Havermale
:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mapinfo-L' Subject: RE: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx Tony, I'm still using a Garmin 12cx but I'm sure the communication protocols would still be the same. Although I'm not running MI 8.5, I recently received a new laptop an

Re: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-21 Thread Eric_Blasenheim
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Horsbøll > Møller > Sent: 20 octobre 2006 05:42 > To: Jaromir Svasta; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com > Subject: RE: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug > > Jaromir, > > I know for sure that this bug has already been reporte

RE: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
half Of Lars I. Nielsen (GisPro) Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:29 AM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug Well, it's debatable whether it's a bug or a wad. A workspace is a macro to rebuild a specific setup. Are unused settings part of such a

Re: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-21 Thread Lars I. Nielsen (GisPro)
rs I. Nielsen GisPro Jacques Paris wrote: It was for sure part of version 7.0 Jacques Paris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Horsbøll Møller Sent: 20 octobre 2006 05:42 To: Jaromir Svasta; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject:

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-21 Thread Flavio Hendry
hi richard > I read that ArcGIS 9.2 is now using GDAL libaries. If that's true, it > seems like PostGIS should be near at hand. would indeed be a reason to start using ArcGIS :-))) ! ciao flavio ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsma

RE: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-21 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Thomas > Not so. Manifold has a big commitment to using Oracle we looked many times into manifold ... never managed to convince any of us, despite all their constant "blubber" about being so much better then anybody else and being lots cheaper. and we do not see it anywhere here in europe

Re: [MI-L] [Spam] another "how do I get this to work" question??

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Thoen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:11:41PM -0700, Tom Thomson wrote: > I import a table from txt or excel file and create points. I then look at > the points and may want to move one or two of them in some direction. I go > into the table and change the coordinates of the point, save the table, and > hope

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Greenwood
On 10/20/06, Flavio Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All there! Why does MapInfo not take PostGIS and/or MySQL MyGIS and plug them in? Free out-of-the-internet and easy to use! And no major overhead like with Oracle ... and it would be the only commercial desktop GIS doing that (as far as I kno

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Thoen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:11:19PM +0200, Flavio Hendry wrote: > > Perhaps that multi-user geodatabase (similar to ArcSDE), that Doug > > Cubin asked for a couple of days ago. Imagine if we had that today, > > out-of-the-box, easy to use? > > All there! Why does MapInfo not take PostGIS and/or My

RE: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread SCISOFT
>> Perhaps that multi-user geodatabase (similar to ArcSDE), that Doug >> Cubin asked for a couple of days ago. Imagine if we had that today, >> out-of-the-box, easy to use? > All there! Why does MapInfo not take PostGIS and/or > MySQL MyGIS and plug them in? Free out-of-the-internet > and easy

RE: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread SCISOFT
> I hear from many others that the GUI of .NET applications > can be quite slow, where you can even see the visual items > being drawed on the screen. And I guess a GIS application > would be especially prone to such a problem. No, not so. The only area (but it is very important) where a GIS or a

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Flavio Hendry
> Perhaps that multi-user geodatabase (similar to ArcSDE), that Doug > Cubin asked for a couple of days ago. Imagine if we had that today, > out-of-the-box, easy to use? All there! Why does MapInfo not take PostGIS and/or MySQL MyGIS and plug them in? Free out-of-the-internet and easy to use! And

RE: [MI-L] Frame Scale

2006-10-20 Thread Spencer Simpson
Some interest was shown in how I was calculating frame scale. I'll post the code in a separate message. As I said in my previous message, "all methods are convoluted and inaccurate". Perhaps too inaccurate to meet anyone's needs. That ObjectInfo() or ObjectGeography() call for a frame window wou

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
In 2002 MapInfo has probably looked at estimated costs and benefits from taking a number of strategic decisions and choose to do "Project Grande". At this point (2006) there has been a significant sunken cost, so either they still expect more very significant cost before they have something work

RE: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-20 Thread Jacques Paris
It was for sure part of version 7.0 Jacques Paris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Horsbøll Møller Sent: 20 octobre 2006 05:42 To: Jaromir Svasta; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug Jaromir

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Bob Young
esources can go into taking the TAB format to 64 bit!? Regards Bob MapsByDesign.co.uk - Original Message - From: "Uffe Kousgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mapinfo-L'" Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [MI-L] Project Grande T

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
"'Mapinfo-L'" Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated? Uffe I haven't seen PG demos run - was it so slow? .NET isn't inherently slow. Was it the panning and screen updating, perhaps? IL Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Aust

RE: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread SCISOFT
y, October 20, 2006 4:10 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject: Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated? Dear all, My guess is MapInfo Corp. stopped the project because we could have ended up with something even slower than ArcGIS. That would have been a disaster for the product. The existing user interface isn&

RE: [MI-L] MI: Style Override Bug

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Jaromir, I know for sure that this bug has already been reported and registered. I reported it last week - and also some years ago... Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-20 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
Dear all, My guess is MapInfo Corp. stopped the project because we could have ended up with something even slower than ArcGIS. That would have been a disaster for the product. The existing user interface isn't that bad, so you have to look at pro's and con's. Remember the grass isn't always gree

RE : [MI-L] MBX error: Dll not found even if it's there

2006-10-19 Thread Christophe Brabant
Of course, I use Depends.exe from VisualStudio suite. Chris -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Uffe Kousgaard Envoyé : mardi 17 octobre 2006 15:45 À : Mapinfo-L Objet : Re: [MI-L] MBX error: Dll not found even if it's there

Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?

2006-10-19 Thread Hughes, Colleen / Don Mitchell
Hi All,   On a similar note, does anyone know if I can use C# (which is .NET as far as I know) to connect to MapInfo for the integrated mapping.  I've just decided to look into C# as a programming language, and I've noticed a stark resemblence to JAVA.  In either case, I'm a bit of a beginne

Re: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-19 Thread Tony Baylis
Sam, I am on a timeframe as am going disappearing into the bush for 2 weeks as of next Tuesday and was hoping (expecting) this would be a reasonably easy tool. I would however be interested in testing any new version you guys come up with as I am sure there aren't a lot of people with the new

RE: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-18 Thread David Reid
ope this helps, David Reid Colbert County 9-1-1 Colbert County, Alabama -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Baylis Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:28 AM To: Mapinfo-L Subject: Re: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx Thank

Re: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-18 Thread Jaromir Svasta
Maybe you need a USB-to-serial driver, I use PL-2303 for my GPS unit. -- Jaromir SVASTA Hydrogeologist Geological Survey of Slovak Republic Mlynska dolina 1 817 04 Bratislava Slovak Republic Tel:+421 2 59375326 Mobile: +421 908783589 Fax:+421 2 54771940 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:27:58 +02

Re: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-18 Thread Tony Baylis
Thanks to Mike and Jon for your help but unfortunately I have had no success. All things I had tried except maybe the definitive step through. I shall keep working on it and let everyone know when I work it out. Tony Cummings, Mike wrote: Check the settings/configuration of your GPS. If I

Re: [MI-L] GeoTracker and Garmin GPSMap76CSx

2006-10-18 Thread Jbgramm
Tony, Here is the sequence of events that worked for me. Start your computer. Turn on the GPS unit. After the computer boots up, plug the GPS Unit into the USB port. Let the computer recognise the new hardware. Start up Mapinfo and run the Geotrack.mbx Then start Geotracker.   This was the only

RE: [MI-L] Frame Scale

2006-10-18 Thread Spencer Simpson
As you probably know, the frame scale is not the same as the map scale, because of the way MapInfo "fits" a map view into a frame. But in a layout, of course, it's the frame's scale that matters. It would sure be nice if there were just an ObjectInfo() or ObjectGeography() call for this, but the

RE: [MI-L] Shape files when brought into MapInfo

2006-10-18 Thread David Reid
Are you sure there's no map objects?  Is it possible they converted with a white border and fill or no border and fill?   While the mapper window is active, open Layer Control, and double click on the layer that's supposed to be populated with objects, and see if there are any style overides

RE: [MI-L] Event based programming

2006-10-18 Thread Spencer Simpson
Which environment are you referring to? MapBasic? MapX? Integrated Mapping? The answers are different for all three. Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rakesh Rao Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:41 AM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsm

RE: [MI-L] Mapinfo capabilities

2006-10-18 Thread Rob Rowell
006 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mapinfo list Subject: Re: [MI-L] Mapinfo capabilities Yes, I agree.. That's why I wanted to start this discussion.. I just hope everybody will give some feedback on this issue an somebody at MapInfo will here us. After all we are the Mapinfo users.. and some

Re: [MI-L] Norwegian NGO 48 projection in MapInfo

2006-10-18 Thread Lars I. Nielsen (GisPro)
Title: Norwegian NGO 48 projection in MapInfo Hi Jakob, Here's what I got from Statens Kartverk in 1995. Datum:     a = 6 377 492,0176 m     e = 1 / 299,1528     Modified Bessel ellipsoid Oslo observatory = 10d 43' 22,5" east (Greenwich Meridian) 8 Gauss-Krüger zones, relative to Oslo obs.

RE: [MI-L] Mapinfo capabilities

2006-10-17 Thread Doug Cubin
continue! cheers Doug   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian RobertsonSent: 17 October 2006 08:57To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [MI-L] Mapinfo capabilities Eric,   MapInfo UK has invested in this area of work. They acquired a

Re: [MI-L] MBX error: Dll not found even if it's there

2006-10-17 Thread Ihab Hawater
Hi, We encountered the same issue with one of our tools and the work around that we have found is to run the MapBasic tool through the MapInfo Professional 'Run MapBasic Program ...' (of the 'Tools' menu). Ihab Hawater - Original Message - From: "Christophe Brabant" <[EMAIL PROTE

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