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RE: Conversion of Symbol to Polygon

Posted By Greg Driver 10-11-2019 04:01
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How about buffering the table?  You can use the table - buffer option in MapInfo to create a polygon around your points and this will keep the attribute information, as well. ------------------------------ Greg Driver Balfour Beatty Birmingham ------------------------------

RE: Advice on how to display plumes of smoke

Posted By Greg Driver 06-20-2019 07:46
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Hi Martin, Interesting!  I guess the main issue would be wind-direction, but if this isn't being considered in this exercise then your suggestion of using a polygon to represent the 'cloud' would be best.  I would make it irregular, rather then just a circle, and make it grey with transparency, so ...

RE: Conditional Select Statement in MapInfo Pro with MapBasic

Posted By Greg Driver 06-18-2019 09:44
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Have you looked at using the Redistrict tool in MapInfo?  I've not really used it that much but from your description, I think you could use it to build your catchment areas from the statistical units. More details here. ------------------------------ Greg Driver Knowledge Community Shared Account ...

RE: What3words

Posted By Greg Driver 04-03-2019 03:22
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This was in the news recently - Three-unique-words 'map' used to rescue mother and child The company I work for has an ideas portal and there's been a number of suggestions about using W3W, and Google's alternative, instead of postcodes to identify locations, such as sites or offices and more worryingly, ...

RE: MapInfo and GPS

Posted By Greg Driver 01-31-2019 04:29
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There's an add-on called GeoTracker by Blue Marble Geographics, but it's only available for 32-bit MapInfo.  More details here - not sure what's available for the 64-bit version. ------------------------------ Greg Driver Knowledge Community Shared Account Shelton CT ------------------------- ...

RE: MapInfo Layer

Posted By Greg Driver 11-14-2018 03:42
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Hi, You could print to a layered PDF and send this to your client. This will show the layers in your workspace, including any thematics and theyll be able to print (export). The other alternative is MapInfo Proviwer, but you client will need to download & install this. You would then need to create ...

RE: In Mapinfo Pro, how can I create a Map Grid with an Index (A1,B2, C3 etc) of a large area and generate a Map Series (Zoomed into the section for each region of the grid)?

Posted By Greg Driver 08-21-2018 07:54
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Hi, You can use the GridMaker tool to create the index layer and then use one of these tools to do the batch printing: Data driven pages: http://communitydownloads.pbinsight.com/code-exchange/download/data-driven-pages/ Atlas Program: http://communitydownloads.pbinsight.com/code-exchange/do ...

RE: How to calculate distance for retail location to each census tract. In ESRI ArcGIS, you can use the Near Tool and select each retail store individually. Is there similar tool in MapInfo or what sort of query I can use?

Posted By Greg Driver 08-16-2018 03:37
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You can use the Distance Calculator tool that ships with MapInfo: http://support.pitneybowes.com/SearchArticles/VFP05_KnowledgeWithSidebarHowTo?id=kA180000000CuVoCAK&popup=false;&lang=en_US

RE: Hi, I have a centroid point values and I need to create a grid of 1km and 500m polygons based on these centroid points. Could somebodey help here? Thanks! Dorin

Posted By Greg Driver 04-25-2018 07:03
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Hi, If you open the mapbasic window and enter the following commands: Set CoordSys Table your_tablename Update your_tablename    Set OBJ = MBR(CreateLine(CentroidX(OBJ) - 250, CentroidY(OBJ) - 250, CentroidX(OBJ) + 250, CentroidY(OBJ) + 250 )) This will create a 500m x 500m grid - just ...

RE: SQL statement for selecting 50 values from the same column

Posted By Greg Driver 04-11-2018 05:33
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If the field is a string, rather than numeric, then you could try: select * from tablename where T1_AssetNo = any (44954,44595,44596,44597,44598,44599,44600,44601,44602,44603,44604,44605,44606,44607,44608,44609,44611,44612,44613) or depending on the asset number range, you could use a wildcard: ...

RE: Converting BNG eastings and northings to British National Grid Reference

Posted By Greg Driver 01-30-2018 16:21
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RE: Converting BNG eastings and northings to British National Grid Reference

Posted By Greg Driver 01-30-2018 16:21
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Hi Jane, Heres the MapBasic mbx - its from 2005, so will probably only run on older versions (32-bit) of MapInfo. The code will add a column to the selected table and populate this with the OS map reference - SU12349876. I could provide the source code but Ill need to hunt around as the code references ...

RE: Converting BNG eastings and northings to British National Grid Reference

Posted By Greg Driver 01-30-2018 07:37
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Many years ago, I wrote some MapBasic code that did the conversion (both ways). I think I still have the code on a CD at home, so will check tonight.