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Polyline “breakage” calculation in MapInfo?
I am a novice MapInfo user, with a basic to moderate knowledge of queries and SQL. My work entails doing risk assessments for shipping traffic based on AIS-tracks (radio-based vessel information ...
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How can I change object image in MapInfo using MapBasic?
I need to change the image of the objects which are in the Selection Table using MapBasic functions. When I say "Image" I mean point object icon on the map.
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How to use ECW images with MapInfo?
I'm wondering if there is a way to use ECW images in MapInfo without having to 'register' the image as I bring it in?
I mean, ECW images are already rectified (well the ones I use for GIS are anyway) ...
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MapInfo Bing Aerial resolution/scale
I am using MapInfo to display some Bing aerial photos. It seems as if it is using the wrong scale of imagery - they look blurred, as if the image has been enlarged.
Is there a way to force it to use ...
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Geo and Population Coverage Calculation
We have Mapinfo and vertical mapper(discover). We are testing a dataset actually a mif file that has coverage area in vector format.
Here the green one is the coverage and the other layer showing ...
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How to split kml file or extract Placemarks?
I have a file of state 2001 assembly districts outlines, from http://goo.gl/dJPyx in Mapinfo MIF format. I've created a kml file from that using ogr2ogr. These are the outlines of each assembly ...
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How to delete duplicate lines?
I was wondering if anyone could help. I have a tab file in MapInfo consisting of just polylines. Each is meant to have its own reference number, however some are duplicated (e.g two lines occupying ...
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Drawing a circle of a given area in MapInfo
I would like to draw a circle in MapInfo exactly 0.9Ha in area.
I've done it by working out the corresponding radius should be, drawing a circle of arbitrary size, double clicking on it and then ...
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Watershed Analysis
With DEM as source, I created all necessary files like flow direction, accumulation,slope,streams,watersheds,pour point etc....
In my watershed(basin), I have many sub-watersheds(sub-basin) with ...
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Converting .kml file to .tab (Map info) format
If I have saved polygons as a (.kml) Google Earth File and I want to draw it in MapInfo, is there a tool to do this ?
If not, how can be it be made using MapBasic?
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St_buffer width issues
I am using postgres with postgis for spatial data and ArcGIS for visualisation. I am really confused regarding what units the st buffer function uses because when I insert just the value 1 as ...
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find and Calculate centroid within polygon either in ArcMap or in MapInfo
How can i calculate single/multiple centroid(point) within polygon either in Arcmap or
in MapInfo. Both object(point, polygon) are in defferent layer.
Pls suggest.....
Thanks
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Convert MapInfo - MapBasic Script into Python
I have a mapbasic script that divides an irregular polygon into smaller polygons of 1 hectare each.
Would anyone help me to convert the following into an arcpy python script.
' This program ...
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What is a seamless table?
A client has asked me to provide a dataset in seamless table format. Could anybody describe to me what a seamless table is?
I understand that it is a format used by mapinfo, but can I create a ...
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How to use non-native spatial data from MS SQL Server with ogr2ogr?
I have some tables in MS SQL Server (2012) with WKT string columns.
I want to export these data to a MapInfo tab file.
Currently I am using the following command:
ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" ...
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How to export vectors from QGIS to MapInfo?
I am trying to save some vector lines that I made in QGIS (1.8 Lisboa) to a format that can be added to MapInfo Professional 6.0 (ancient version I know..).
When I save the vector to a Mapinfo ...
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Fully automating a workspace to create maps with different file names but same information?
I have a lot of maps (over 600) to create. They all contain the same column titles and the layouts will be the same. I don't want to have to go through and repeat the same process everytime, I would ...
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Getting number of tables loaded with integrated mapping
I am integrating a MapInfo map into a form in an Access database. I am trying to find out the number of tables loaded but NumTables() and MapperInfo() are both getting "unrecognized command" errors.
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How do I use WMS in mapinfo 10.0?
Is there any way that I could use google maps or bing map or other free map provider as WMS?
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Where does MapInfo store its Coordinate Systems?
When choosing a projection in MapInfo, there is a large list of available coordinate systems. Where is the file that stores these and is it easily editable?
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MapInfo 10.5.1 Update and MS Access Database
I am having problems with a database that I have developed. The data uses MapInfo for any of the spatial parts of it.
I installed the update to MapInfo 10.5.1 and I now get an error when I
am trying ...
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How do you change the editing capabilities on a MapInfo .Tab file?
When I load a .Tab file into QGIS I am unable to make changes to it.
The information on the MetaData Tab reads the following:
"Editing Capabilities of this layer: Add Attributes, Fast Access to ...
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Creating polygons from points in Mapinfo
I have a huge number of points(co-ordinates), from which I am required to draw a polygon in Mapinfo.
This required polygon is a square of 200m size. All I have now is the left side lower end of the ...
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Creating DEM after converting mapinfo tab files to ARC GIS
How do I create DEM for contours after converting map-info tab files to ARC GIS and how do I convert toposheet tab file to ARC GIS.
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Is it possible to retrieve thematic layer information for a Layer in Mapbasic?
I found this code
windowinfo(FrontWindow(), WIN_INFO_CLONEWINDOW)
This function gives information (mapbasic) about the front Map window which can be used to regenerate the map.
Is there any ...
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How to draw lines of specified lengths in specified directions in Mapinfo?
I have an Excel file with the following data:
1) longitude and latitude which represents a point
2) Angle which represents where line turns from North
3) length of line.
Is is possible to draw ...
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How to add custom Icon to buttons on buttonpads in mapinfo?
I have made buttons with icons availabe in mapinfo but now i want to add custom icon. Is it possible my code is as follows:
Include "icons.def"
Declare Sub Main
Declare Sub button_prompt
Sub ...
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Problem accessing WFS 1.1.0 with Mapinfo
I am new to all kinds of GIS software. Due to my project I need to open WFS site which needs a WFS standard 1.1.0. I tried to do it with MapInfo Professional 11.5, but it wont open it. I found a ...
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What is the easiest way to let a user upload overlayers to openlayers (Geoserver/Mapserver)?
I need to let a user upload vector layers he created with QGIS or MapInfo professional to my website (using OpenLayers as client and either Geoserver or Mapserver as WMS).
What will be the easiest ...
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How to convert a polygon into a set of points within its border using Mapinfo? (or other tool)
I need to convert a polygon into a set of points in Mapinfo with a specific inter distance, i cant insert them manually as i need to have a large number of points (up to 10,000) at each run.
Thanks
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Joining lines in MapInfo that won't be split by disaggregate?
I have just run a disaggregation a .tab containing just lines and found I have a few with duplicate IDs. However when I zoom in these lines appear to be connected. Is there any way to join these ...
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Is it possible to convert an ESRI style sheet to a font set?
This is related to Retain ESRI symbology in Mapinfo TAB
As a workaround I am wondering if I can save all my ESRI symbology from the lyr files created using the script below to an ESRI style sheet and ...
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Mapinfo, (or other?) Interpolation of lat/long and finding minimum in a region
I have a series of lat/long coordinates, each with a corresponding Z value. Each coordinate is spaced roughly 40km apart (this is stored as a MapInfo table of points).
What I'd like to do is to ...
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TopologyException side location conflict reading MapInfo with Sharpmap
I'm using SharpMap 0.9 to read various MapInfo (.tab) files.
I have used a number of files without any problem and been able to perform intersection queries on them like so:
var interesectionResults ...
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Can you use animated images as symbols in Mapinfo?
How is it possible to use image that blink or change (animate) as
symbol in mapinfo? I tried to create custom symbol that blink in
mapinfo but after I added it as symbol it didn't blink. Have I done ...
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Does mapbasic support function overloading?
I am creating application with mapbasic. Now that it's been some time with mapbasic I found that the language is very fundamental and does not support functionality that I took for granted in Java or ...
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Integrating Maximo with Mapinfo?
I am software developer and have been working on database
and Java as major platform for development. I am using Mapinfo for GIS analysis.
Now, the system needs to show trouble tickets in Mapinfo ...
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Creating MBO files with MapBasic and Notepad++
[Note: I have been using Notepad++ (with some customisations as per this page), rather than MapBasic itself. This may make things a bit trickier, but so far the time saved in development has been ...
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GeoTIFF raster layer, c#
We have a map rendering engine (renders from MapInfo Interchange Format). This engine uses Mercator Projection. Now we have to insert a raster layer (orthophotos of a city), we have GeoTIFF files with ...
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OGR, writing TAB files, and BOUNDS
According to this: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html the TAB file writer sets default bounds, with the caveat that 'we should fix this'.
Bounds causes issues with respect to coordinate ...
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Convert geojson labels MBR to MapInfo text object
Im using Dymo (https://github.com/migurski/Dymo/) to generate automatic point labels placement. The output of Dymo is a geojson containing MBRs of the positioned labels with the names of the labels in ...
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Error executing CQL on layer other then demo layers
I have some sort of wierd problem as I was playing with CQL. CQL works well with given layer but when i try with layer loaded from mapinfo or some views then it does not work. As in the picture when I ...
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1944 Cyprus Grid coordinate data projection problem in MapInfo
I have coordinate data from the 1944 British Army General Staff, Geographical
Section (GSGS) Cyprus map which was cast on the Cassini projection, but was referenced to the Clarke 1880 ellipsoid where ...
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Batch Convert MapInfo .TAB Files to .KML [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ogr2ogr convert all shapefiles in a directory
As the title suggests, i have a few hundred .TAB files to convert to .KML. This is likely to be a fairly irregular thing ...
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GeoServer WFS Speed
I have set-up a machine running Windows Server 2008, and GeoServer 2.1.3. PostgreSQL 9.1/PostGIS 1.5.3 are running locally on that same machine, which is hosted at a location with a 250 ...
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Converting TAB to MIF / MIF to TAB
How I can export (import) data from TAB format to MIF and vice versa?
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Setting custom valid values to a MapInfo field?
I was wondering if it was possible in MapInfo to set valid values for a field, e.g a field called material and only valid values being BIT, CON or STO? I have a basic knowledge of MapBasic.
Thanks,
...
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What are the best ways to connect two coordinates on mapinfo?
I have with the help of this forum drawn a coordinate system with longitude and latitude at different location. I am trying to connect these sites what is the best way to connect. Is it just drawing ...
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Label inside top left corner of polygons
Does anyone know of a tool or procedure to automatically place a label in the corner of a polygon, rather than at the centroid?
I am using Mapinfo and know that I can manually place the label ...
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Query MapInfo TAB Files
My company currently uses MapInfo Professional to map our client's addresses into territories. I have been asked to figure out a mechanism to do the same thing but real-time via a web service call. ...
