Dick: Have you tried the "Tools/Geographic File/Archive" feature which makes a zip file of all the active component files? This may work, assuming the...
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Richard Hoskins
healthmaps@...
Aug 13, 2001 1:51 pm
As I understand it the archive function just bundles up layer files and not MAP files or workspace files with no path. Its only different than using WinZip in...
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Carl Chance
cchance@...
Aug 13, 2001 2:06 pm
Dick, Whomever you are sending Map file to needs the same files that you created the map with or you need to send the files with the Map. I have physically...
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Murray Rice
murray.rice@...
Aug 13, 2001 2:26 pm
Yes, this right, Maptitude will give a user an opportunity to browse for the file when the program cannot find it. I moved my copy of Maptitude to a new ...
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Richard Hoskins
healthmaps@...
Aug 13, 2001 2:38 pm
I have 5 colleagues that have copies of Maptitude, all on different machines. We are working on the same problem. I set up an ftp site where we can share...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 13, 2001 2:55 pm
... Fortunately, Maptitude is smarter than that. If it tries to open files that it cannot find, it presents a dialog box asking where those files are. The path...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 13, 2001 3:01 pm
... There is backward compatibility, but forward compatibility is not guaranteed. For example, a newer version could use a capability (such as splitting labels...
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Mike Baum
mikebaum@...
Aug 13, 2001 3:20 pm
Thanks Carl, yes, I do have the info link tool. But I have to be running Maptitude for those links to be functional. Don't I? I was hoping to use a web format...
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Philip Villars
phil@...
Aug 13, 2001 3:43 pm
Hello List: ... There's no real magic to sharing Maptitude map files with other users. The one rule is that for a user, any user, to open a map file, they...
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Carl Chance
cchance@...
Aug 13, 2001 4:09 pm
Mike, Yes Mapt has to be running, for info link. As for MT4W it saves files as .asp (active server pages) That is about all I can tell you. Sorry, but you have...
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Carl Chance
cchance@...
Aug 13, 2001 4:10 pm
Hello Philip, How are you? Haven't heard from you in a while. You did a much better job of explaining it. Later Carl...
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Richard Hoskins
healthmaps@...
Aug 13, 2001 4:35 pm
Philip: This is a big help thanks ... still would be useful to have the workspace and map files editable. Dick Hoskins Spatial Epidemiology Office of the...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 13, 2001 4:51 pm
... Both are binary files that store complex arrays of key/value pairs and other information. Mess those up and you cannot use the file. Since those settings...
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So, Louis
lso@...
Aug 13, 2001 8:22 pm
Maptitude can link .BMP,AVI or .WAV files to individual map features. But how about Tiff??? Louis...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 13, 2001 9:37 pm
... Starting with Version 4.0, Maptitude went way beyond simply linking to one slide show field (slide shows can have .BMP,AVI or .WAV files in them) to ...
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So, Louis
lso@...
Aug 13, 2001 10:08 pm
But after I link the tiff image, when I click the Info Link Tool, how can I open the image by using Maptitude instead of some other image browser??? Louis ... ...
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Tom Blazer
blazer@...
Aug 14, 2001 1:01 pm
I have 6 drivetime polygons, some contiguous, some not contiguous and some overlapping. I want to create one trade area which is only the outline of the outer...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 14, 2001 2:20 pm
... Maptitude uses whatever program is registered to open a document/URL, using the Windows Registry. Maptitude does not have to know how to open the plethora...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 14, 2001 2:35 pm
... No, Merge by District makes big ones out of little ones, but does not deal with overlaps. One thing you can do, assuming they are all in the same ...
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Marjorie Roswell
roswell@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:26 pm
If you get a fixin' for some of our old listbot archives, you can try http://www.mail-archive.com/maptitude%40listbot.com/ Note that these archives are a...
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Rickey Tolliver
tolliver@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:33 pm
Can anyone tell me how to create a geographic file of a boundary using streets or anything else? I want to be able to select points inside this boundary. ...
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kbyrnes
kbyrnes@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:57 pm
Rick: Using the layer containing the features from which you want to select (e.g. road segments) to create your boundary, use the select tool (the "pointing ...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 14, 2001 4:08 pm
... Read up on Tools-Line/Area Conversion. You can select the bounding lines, and create areas. Peter ... Peter Van Demark Director of GIS Products and...
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Mike Baum
mikebaum@...
Aug 14, 2001 5:11 pm
I'm guessing that since we haven't heard from them that it is indeed a mftw issue and not something within Maptitude's capabilities. And I remember something...
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Marjorie Roswell
roswell@...
Aug 14, 2001 5:26 pm
... Mike, et. al., This listserv covers - Maptitude, - Maptitude for the Web - Maptitude for Redistricting, and - GISDK. There is a separate user listserv for ...
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Verworn, Jon - Intern
jverworn@...
Aug 14, 2001 6:12 pm
I think what Louis is wondering is how to associate/register the tiff so Maptitude opens it instead of another application. For example when double clicking...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 14, 2001 7:48 pm
... Maptitude for the Web (we use MT4W as the abbreviation) can do it, but currently Maptitude does not write HTML, XML, GML, etc.; no vector formats except...
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Peter H. Van Demark
peter@...
Aug 14, 2001 7:53 pm
... You should be able to do that, though I haven't tried it: set up the Windows Registry so that opening a GeoTIFF or a (hopefully registered) TIFF launches...
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So, Louis
lso@...
Aug 14, 2001 9:46 pm
I believe it is a very useful standard feature to have in Maptitude by clicking the geographic feature using Info Link Tool, any of the DOQ, SPOT or GEOTIFF...
