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RE: Using the Find Address command

Posted By Nick Hall 05-02-2023 13:42
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Kate, Don't think you can use the Find Address option you've tried using with your own LLPG data. Most of my clients who use their LLPG addresses either: 1) Take a data extract out of the LLPG software and create a layer from it within Pro and use the standard find command. 2) Maybe the LLPG system ...

RE: Home page no login

Posted By Nick Hall 03-30-2023 05:42
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Mustapha and Karli, Thanks for the confirmation I suspected as much just wanted to be sure. It's a shame really as the Home page is a nice way of look at the available Projects rather than just the Project drop down in Analyst Regards, Nick ------------------------------ Nick Hall ...

Home page no login

Posted By Nick Hall 03-29-2023 05:23
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Hi, cant find the answer to this in the documentation. Is it possible for the Home page to be displayed without a login box to only show all the Projects that have an Analyst Guest role permission. Basically want to avoid the Guest login requirement like you can with the individual project URLs ...

RE: "No overlay dataset available" error

Posted By Nick Hall 03-20-2023 13:04
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Chris, Seems to be a zoom layering setting somewhere (probably at the Cadcorp end) if you zoom in enough in Pro you do get the data. I would attach a screenshot but the page won't let me Regards, Nick ------------------------------ Nick Hall Mapchester LTD Manchester ------------- ...

MapInfo and Microsoft app-v

Posted By Nick Hall 02-27-2023 10:41
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Hi, just reaching out to see if anyone out there is delivering MapInfo via Microsoft app-v. Support are already aware of this issue and doing all they can. A client is having problems with Fonts as Microsoft app-v does something 'weird' with them. Some fonts aren't appearing correctly ...

RE: Animation layer

Posted By Nick Hall 02-17-2023 04:27
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Thanks Uffe, I'll give that a go. The annoying thing for me is that the manual actually refers to a .mbx that doesn't exist! Nick ------------------------------ Nick Hall Mapchester LTD Manchester ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- ...

Animation layer

Posted By Nick Hall 02-16-2023 12:10
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Hi, Does anyone have a copy of the animator.mbx referenced in the mapbasic user guide? In the samples under mapbasic program it only has the .mb and when I (being a mapbasic idiot) try and to compile it there are loads of errors. Is there an actual mbx that exists? ...

RE: Multi Append Tool?

Posted By Nick Hall 01-24-2023 05:05
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Ryan, I have an .mbx called combine layer from 1994 that still works - although I had to recompile the .mb in mapbasic v21 first. It will basically create a new table of all the layers in a map window. I have no idea where I got it from but pretty sure its freeware. would you like a copy? Nick ...

RE: Editiable off

Posted By Nick Hall 12-29-2022 07:41
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Mah, Things to check: 1) is the layer still a SHP file or other GIS format that MapInfo has just opened - you will need to save a copy first 2) do you have editable rights to the folder the table is stored in 3) does the .tab file say read only in the metadata (open it in Notepad and check) or ...

RE: Refresh of the new Layer Filter option

Posted By Nick Hall 11-23-2022 04:30
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Hi, have to admit upon reading this I was surprised to find that the filter didn't just automictically update the map, like John and Darren were. I had just assumed it would have. Interestingly if you save a workspace and the data changes the filter does update when you re-open it. Could a ...

RE: Seamless table v21 Vs v15

Posted By Nick Hall 11-01-2022 10:42
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Sam, Thanks for that. Interesting stuff. I'll look at the MMR option as the same data may be required for Spectrum too so it may make that easier to manage rather than seamless tables. Regards Nick ------------------------------ Nick Hall Mapchester LTD Manchester ------------- ...

Seamless table v21 Vs v15

Posted By Nick Hall 10-27-2022 10:51
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Hi, I have a large seamless table of just over 10,000 tiles. All the ghx and pprc files have been created for the tiffs. When I open it in v15 I can zoom to the entire layer and, eventually, it will draw the entire map. When I try and do the same in v21, no matter how long I wait, MapInfo ...

RE: Time slider

Posted By Nick Hall 09-23-2022 04:18
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*buys better glasses* Thanks Peter Nick ------------------------------ Nick Hall Mapchester LTD Manchester ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 09-23-2022 01:43 From: Peter Møller Subject: Time slider Hi Nick It's the ...

Time slider

Posted By Nick Hall 09-22-2022 12:09
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Hi, sorry if this has come up before. Doing some training today and a user closed the Time Slider while doing a Time Series by clicking on the X on it's right hand end. I couldn't find how to get it back. I've now done the same on my laptop and still can't find the option. Using v21 and v21.1. ...

RE: Edit size or position of Bing Copyright

Posted By Nick Hall 09-20-2022 07:12
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Caroline, Firstly, let me say I'm not 100% sure you are allowed to alter the size. I'm sure someone at Precisely will know ;) If you are though then there is an XML file called BingAerial.XML located in C:\Program Files\MapInfo\Professionalv21.1\TileServer This contains the line: Microsoft ...

RE: MapInfo Monday: Get that Column Indexed

Posted By Nick Hall 08-18-2022 09:56
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Do you mean this option, John? Nick ------------------------------ Nick Hall Mapchester LTD Manchester ------------------------------

RE: Query to find records that are closed from each other

Posted By Nick Hall 07-22-2022 11:51
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Hi, I would do sort of what you've down above. However, I would add a column to the layer and put a value in all rows. E.g. Column called join and update it with the word join. Copy the layer and then as you almost suggest: Select mytable.ID, mytable2.ID, Distance(centroidX(mytable.obj), ce ...

RE: Smarttext options

Posted By Nick Hall 06-29-2022 06:56
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Alan, Do you mean editing the XML file to be picked up by the smart text drop down in v21? If so, then adding CHR$(13) does seem to work. E.g. line from my SmartTextAliases.xml file "Your" +CHR$(13)+ "name" When used in Pro this does add Your and Name on separate lines. HTH Nick ...

RE: Dropbox

Posted By Nick Hall 06-25-2022 07:04
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Giselle I have a client who uses dropbox as a way of sharing data for 4 users who all work from home permanently. Not 100% sure but dropbox appears to hold the data at a local level and then manage/syncs the data updates as users make changes/add files/etc. So we created a data hub on one dropbox ...

RE: Onboard geocoder - what's it like?

Posted By Nick Hall 06-08-2022 06:09
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Julian, To be perfectly honest with you I find it overly complicated whenever I've tried to use it. The benefits of address level detail and outside of UK addresses, for me, aren't worth it. I know it's not the question you asked but you can get free postcode unit data points from Ordnance Survey, ...

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