Spectrum Spatial (SSA/LIM)

I have been trying to upload maps from Pro using the uploader tool and keep getting frustrated by all the functions/features that are not supported and thus not uploaded. Thanks!

Do you mean Base maps, Steve??

I mean thematic maps from queried data with labels and expressions.

Hi Steve, My colleagues @David Mosher? or @Ravi Gupta? will be able to support you on this.

@Steve Wallace?  Please let us know if you are using SSA 12.1 and Spectrum 12.1 Map uploader to upload the data? What is your MIPro version as well. The new uploader is supported only with MIPro v16 and above.

You can refer to following link to know more about how do we upload data using Spectrum Map Uploader

http://support.pb.com/help/spectrum/12.1/en/webhelp/Spatial/index.html#Spatial/source/Map_Uploader/start/start.html

Feel free to write to us if you face any specific issue while uploading data. You can also share a sample data with us.

Hi @Steve Wallace?, I hope you resolved your issue with thematic Map. Initially, I faced the same issue, then I got to know that when we want to see the Labels with an expression on SSA we need to perform the label override in MapInfo and then upload the same map into Spectrum server.

If you do it successfully, you will see something like this. I did the same way. Hope this will help you

No, nobody has come up with an answer yet that works. The problem is that I want to only show labels under certain conditions. For example, I want the map to display all values > $1Mil in large type with the formatting $##Mil. Then I want anything over $100k but under <$1Mil in a smaller font with the formatting $###k.

In Pro I would simply write queries, add the results to the mapper and create the labels. Spectrum does not support dynamic queries / selections.

So then I tried to use a clever workaround someone developed where the label only gets displayed if the condition is true (see example below), but Spectrum does not support some of these basic string manipulation functions.

So I am still stuck. The real problem is that Spectrum was not developed by MapInfo, but by PB -- so the uploader from Pro is going to have lots of incompatibilities.

We must have a better tool for creating maps in Spectrum, or have the tool fix all the incompatibilities.

-- Steve

Left$(Str$(Format$(Int(SumOfIncur/100000)*100, "$#k")), Int(SumOfIncur>=100000 and SumOfIncur<1000000) * Len(Str$(Format$(Int(SumOfIncur/100000)*100, "$#k"))))

?Hi Steve,

Just a question, do you have Geoserver? because if you do then you should be able to achieve what your after by setting up a wms map tile service in Geoserver that publishes your layer and then consume that within SSA.

This also depends if your vector layer is within a DB, if not then you will need to convert to shp and upload to Geoserver on a regular basis. Or upload the vector layer to SQLSpatial and publish directly in Geoserver.

You can control the labels for the vector layer that the wms tile service publishes using a SLD file linked to the published vector layer (which is the wms source) 

You can create the SLD file by using atlasstyler which is freely available on the web(latest version should be ok, I use 1.9) You will need to convert your initial map info tab file into shp to load in atlas styler, create the styles etc and save. Then when you load the SLD in Geoserver, if you are using a SQLSpatial published layer you need to change the referenced spatial column within the SLD xml -- this can be done within Geoserver or manually using notepad or the like.

Hope this gives you some ideas to try.

cheers

?Peter, the Release Notes were actual correct/part of the original link, I have attached them here. Don't think they are in the link that has been supplied above! I applied the patch (copied files across) this morning, works nice, great fix with this release as we were waiting for this one..

Tony

Hi @Tony Jordan? , @Andy d'Andilly? 

Great thanks for that, I prefer to see things in writing before I start destroying things?.

Although I think you replied to the wrong post had me thinking for a minute, thanks for keeping me on my toes.

happy new year guys.

cheers

The Map Uploader tries to find matching functions in Spectrum Spatial for the MapBasic functions that you have used.Unfortunately, not all MapBasic functions have a matching "Spectrum Spatial" function.

With MapInfo Pro v17 we are adding the long awaited IIF() and Cond() functions that makes it easier to for example only label certain elements in a map.

A question for @Ravi Gupta? or @Mustafa Ismail? is whether Spectrum Spatial also will support these functions?

AndI assume another request would be to add support for Named Queries to Spectrum Spatial (Analyst).