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Meaning of icons in the dialog for selecting tables from Oracle spatial

Posted By Nick Lawrence 11-16-2023 19:00
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Hello all, I want to know the meaning of the icons in the dialog box for selecting tables from a schema in Oracle Spatial. After choosing a schema, the tables are shown with a check box next to each table name. Also next to the name is a little icon which I think represents the type of geometry in ...

Do I need a MI_PRINX column in an Oracle Spatial table?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 10-30-2023 21:30
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Hello all, I am building a spatial table in Oracle I have a Primary Key column "IDENTIFIER" I have a geometry column "GEOMETRY" I am trying and failing to open this table in MapInfo v2019, by opening a DBMS connection and opening the table as Live (not Linked) Do I need one of the columns to ...

RE: Square ended buffer of line?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 09-13-2022 18:56
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Thank you James ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence TMR-Policy and Planning Brisbane QLD ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 09-13-2022 03:25 From: James Nolet Subject: Square ended buffer of line? Hi Nick, Yes, ...

RE: Square ended buffer of line?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 09-12-2022 20:20
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Thanks James, that is exactly the result I want. Is there a corresponding mapbasic command? I suspect that this function is a part of MapCAD. Is there a way for MapBasic to access MapCAD functions? ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence TMR-Policy and Planning Brisbane QLD ----------- ...

Square ended buffer of line?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 09-12-2022 19:34
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Hello all, I would like to buffer polylines with a square ended buffer. Instead of the normal semi-circle end, I would like a square end that is flat against the end of the polyline. Is there a way to do this? Either in MapInfo or in MapBasic? ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence TMR-Policy ...

RE: A method to set if a mbx tool has AutoLoad ticked?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 10-23-2019 21:39
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I passed this advice on to our IT branch and they implemented it no problems. A clear, straightforward solution :-) ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence Mr TMR-Policy and Planning Brisbane ------------------------------

A method to set if a mbx tool has AutoLoad ticked?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 10-22-2019 21:33
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Hello all, My department has several hundred users of MapInfo, and I am assisting in the build of an installation package for MapInfo. One thing I'd really like to do is control which Tools are are AutoLoaded, that is, control wether a tool has AutoLoad ticked or not, during the initial install. ...

Does Pack Table reset FastEdit & Undo to defaults?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 08-22-2019 02:52
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Hello all,   Does Pack Table reset FastEdit & Undo to defaults?   I have a mapbasic script that deletes a row, and packs the table (to prepare for a search). To speed up operations, I do a Set Table FastEdit On Undo Off   But it seems that when I pack the table, FastEdit ...

Hotlink opens new instance of MapInfo

Posted By Nick Lawrence 03-14-2019 19:53
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In my organisation, we have an intermittent problem with Hotlinks opening a new instance of MapInfo. Basically, we have a MapInfo table that is a grid of tiles (just square polygons representing the tile boundaries) and when you use the hotlink tool, it opens a MapInfo table that fills the tiles (typically ...

RE: A .pprc file is created when MapInfo v16 opens a cloud optimised geotiff

Posted By Nick Lawrence 02-04-2019 18:17
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Yes please do improve support for COG's My organisation has thousands of them, stored on network drives, so rapid display over a network will be welcomed by us ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence Mr TMR-Policy and Planning Brisbane ------------------------------

A .pprc file is created when MapInfo v16 opens a cloud optimised geotiff

Posted By Nick Lawrence 01-16-2019 02:09
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Hello all,   I have a lot of raster imagery in cloud-optimised geotiff format. https://www.cogeo.org/   I am running MapInfo v16.0.3 (64-bit) on Windows 7 (64-bit)   When I open a cloud-optimised geotiff for the first time, MapInfo generates a .pprc file. Which is a ...

RE: MapInfo Pro 15.0.3 (32-bit) very slow to start

Posted By Nick Lawrence 01-07-2019 18:45
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I have solved it by getting my work computer replaced. Other software on my previous computer was also having problems, and IT decided to just replace the computer. Looks like it was all just a result of slowly dying hardware. ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence Mr TMR-Policy and Planning ...

Is there a mapbasic command to set preferences?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 12-20-2018 01:59
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Hello all, Is there a mapbasic command to set preferences? Things like default directories and default projection. In my organisation, it would be nice to run something to get everyone set up consistently. We could simply replace the user's PRF file. But that would alter every single preference ...

RE: MapInfo Pro 15.0.3 (32-bit) very slow to start

Posted By Nick Lawrence 12-19-2018 20:41
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I am opening MapInfo from the Start menu (not double-clicking a workspace) The default printer is Adobe PDF which is the default printer in windows. I tried switching to PDF995, but that did not solve it. I always have disabled the saving/loading printer preferences from workspaces. In my organisation, ...

MapInfo Pro 15.0.3 (32-bit) very slow to start

Posted By Nick Lawrence 12-18-2018 23:07
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Hello all, I am running MapInfo Pro 15.0.3 (32-bit) on WIndows 7 (64-bit) and it is very slow to start. The cursor sits there spinning for several minutes before MapInfo finally finishes starting. MapInfo then behaves normally. I have tried stuff like unticking all the auto-loading tools and ...

RE: Error with opening cloud-optimised geoTifs in 32-bit MapInfo v15.0.3

Posted By Nick Lawrence 12-12-2018 18:58
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Hi Ashley, Yes, I have opened the specific tif file by itself, and it does open fine. I have also opened the tif files in a different order (same error after ten files) I have also opened tif files from a different set (same error after ten files) I am not using a seamless table. I have a vector ...

Error with opening cloud-optimised geoTifs in 32-bit MapInfo v15.0.3

Posted By Nick Lawrence 12-10-2018 23:46
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Hello all,   I have an error opening cloud-optimised geoTifs in 32-bit MapInfo v15.0.3   The images are stored on a network drive The first ten images open okay (they are tiles) but then I get the error "Image file open error. Unable to open table SW_e529_n6874."   ...

RE: Clean makes .MAP bigger

Posted By Nick Lawrence 11-22-2018 20:51
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I ran Pack and it went back to the original size. ------------------------------ Nick Lawrence Mr TMR-Policy and Planning Brisbane ------------------------------

Clean makes .MAP bigger

Posted By Nick Lawrence 11-22-2018 19:14
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I have observed some unusual behaviour with the Clean command. I am running MapInfo 64-bit version 16.0.3 I have a table containing one record, a very large polygon, which is the result of buffering railway tracks. The original .MAP had a file size of 5,789 KB The original polygon had 728,840 nodes ...

How is order of sections determined for the multi-section polyline that is a result of an Erase(polyline,region) command?

Posted By Nick Lawrence 07-27-2018 01:46
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Consider the case of a polyline object that overlaps a region object such that the command Erase(polyline,region) returns a multi-section polyline. How is the order of the sections in the multi-section polyline determined? It would be great if the first section corresponded with the start of the ...