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  • 20
    Points

    When harvesting Oracle Spatial data in MapInfo Manager v1.3, any records/tables which fail to be added are skipped and it does not give any indication of which tables were skipped or the reason why.

    The only way around this at the moment is to manually compare between the shared folder and the library view in MiManager to determine which files have been missed.

    We would like to raise this as a product feature enhancement request so that this functionality can be introduced in a later release as it would be very handy to know which files are missed and why without having to manually go through and compare the records one by one.

    0 Comments »  Posted by  dave.kuo  to MapInfo Manager 3 days ago
  • 10
    Points
    In most application when 'Save' is selected, the current document is saved. If you want to save it with another name (for whatever purpose), there is a 'Save As' function.

    When 'Save Workspace' is selected in MapInfo, a dialog appears and we are prompted to re-select the current Workspace file and overwrite it.

    The 'Save Workspace' function should be a single click (like most applications) and not open the dialog box, and there should be a seperate 'Save As' button that does open the dialog and prompt for a different Workspace file name.

    Both should be available in the drop down menus and in the toolbars

    Adding this would cut down on the number of mouse clicks and reduce time.
    0 Comments »  Posted by  Con  to MapInfo Professional 2 hours ago
  • 20
    Points
    How about including "routing" in Stratus. 
    1. Drivetime creation could be an additional annotation feature. This would be a hugh improvement especially when the drivetime annotations could be used for querying. For example - how many customers/competitors/stores within X km of a location.
    2. TSP - Travelling Sales Person - Here are the sites/cusomers that someone needs to visit - here is the optimal sequence. and the results could be exported to .cvs/kml.
    Thanks
    Jacob
    0 Comments »  Posted by  jacob.pescini.  to Stratus May 12, 2013
  • 40
    Points
    I currently have Street Pro Navigation AU data installed and it comes with a set of metadata information (.xml file). The ability to import those metadata (which comply with the Standard used by MIM) into MIM metadata template would be a good feature to have. At the moment in MIM v1.2, I have to create those metadata for each of the dataset and it is not ideal.
    0 Comments »  Posted by  Doni S  to MapInfo Manager Aug 28, 2012
  • 40
    Points
    Hi,

    Currently while creating the ehtml output device in the Designer version 5 or version 6 the way to specify the resources URL (like images) is static, so need to hard code the value of the URL. It would be really helpfull if this value could be  dynamically coded which allow us to have different URL for test environments and Live environments.

    This could be as simple as having an OPS entry to override the URL

    Thanks!
  • 30
    Points
    We spent a lot of time messing with Doc1 install, mainly because we cannot step back and forth during the install, therefore any mistakes/errors lead to a mess and a lot of unnecessary work.  Not ideal in a dev, test or production server.

    If we make a mistake or hit escape at the wrong time it would only cancel that one step and try and continue with the rest of the install.  This usually resulted in a mangled install and required the Microsoft Fix It tool to uninstall it properly.  Also, if we put wrong password in, again that would mean a complete uninstall and then reinstall.
    0 Comments »  Posted by  hha  to EngageOne Communication Suite Nov 23, 2012
  • 30
    Points

    Some customers are using user exits to perform tasks in DOC1Gen. When they want to move to the EngageOne server environment, the user exits are no longer available. This can cause serious problems for them.
    It would be great if also this option would be made available again.

    3 Comments »  Posted by  Adrie  to EngageOne Communication Suite Mar 13, 2013
  • 10
    Points
    When translating from TAB to SHP format, the translator truncates the field names to a maximum of 10 characters, which is the DBase III standard imposed by SAFE and used since around 2007.  It leaves me with two choices, either clean up the table after the translation or export in another format, e.g. mif-mid, which does not have a 10 character limit.  With the next release of the translator, would it be possible for the Pitney Bowes development team to find a workaround solution?  Or, possibly SAFE could license another version of the translator to Pitney Bowes, which would allow a field name longer than 10 characters.
    1 Comment »  Posted by  barry.andrie  to MapInfo Professional May 14, 2013
  • 100
    Points
    I've been trying, with limited success, to connect through to a WMS service which requires authentication (User_Id and Password).

    The connection works fine.....   a .Tab file and an .xml file are generated;
    but each time that I try and subsequently load that data  I have to go through the authentication process again.
    This is fine, if a little frustrating , for myself, as a developer / data custodian within the business, but I can't/ won't issue the login credentials to all of our staff.

    What we need to have developed is a method for handling access to secure servers much as in the same way I could connect to an Oracle database.
    e.g. enable the user_name and password to be held within the .Tab file, such as

    !table
    !version 500
    !charset WindowsLatin1

    Definition Table
      Type ODBC
    begin_metadata
    "\IsReadOnly" = "FALSE"
    "\DATALINK" = ""
    "\DATALINK\Query" = "select * from ""ccw_user"".""oracle_table"""
    "\DATALINK\ConnectionString" = "SRVR=ccw_spatial;UID=xxxxxx"
    "\DATALINK\ToolKit" = "ORAINET"
    "\CACHE" = "ON"
    "\MBRSEARCH" = "ON"
    end_metadata

    Currently all we have with the wms .Tab file is:

    !table
    !version 750
    !charset WindowsLatin1

    Definition Table
      File "boundary-line.xml"
      Type "WMS"
      CoordSys Earth Projection 8, 79, "m", -2, 49, 0.9996012717, 400000, -100000

    and the .xml

    <MI_WMS_MapDefinition version="1.0" wms_version="1.3.0"><HTTP GetCapabilities="https://username:password@url/wms/MAP.do?" GetMap="https://username:password@url/wms/MAP.do?"/><Exception format="XML"/><SRS>EPSG:27700</SRS><Image bgcolor="16777215" transparent="true" format="image/png"/><Layer><Name>BL</Name><Style></Style><LatLonBoundingBox minx="-180" miny="-90" maxx="180" maxy="90"/><BoundingBox SRS="EPSG:27700" minx="0" miny="0" maxx="700000" maxy="1300000"/></Layer></MI_WMS_MapDefinition>


    Note: I have included the user_name and password in the GetCapabilities and GetMap statements (as advised by the hosts) but this has no effect.......

    (I have successfully managed to link to this service using an Open Source  GIS  without any problems at all ....)


    Secure servers will become much more commonplace as more and more business share services through WMS and WFS, as in our case across a distributed network, or with other government agencies.
    0 Comments »  Posted by  Bruce_Jackson  to MapInfo Professional Apr 5, 2012
  • 330
    Points
    At the moment, the options for drawing arrow symbology is very limited. It would be much more useful to have the option of choosing any line style, for example a dashed line, and then choosing appropriate arrow heads. Arrow heads should be able to be sized and coloured independantly of the line style.  This would be like the functions available in some graphics packages.
    1 Comment »  Posted by  Kalu  to MapInfo Professional Jul 2, 2012
  • 110
    Points
    Hello,

    I wish we could easily open WMTS data into Mapinfo Professional.
    More and more data editors offer the possibility to buy annual GIS WMTS licenses, in order to reach in their constantly updated datasets.

    Cec_92
    3 Comments »  Posted by  Cec_92  to MapInfo Professional Mar 2, 2012
  • 470
    Points

    At the moment the TAB file format comes with the following limitations:

    up to 250 columns, 2 billion rows (assuming the records are 1 byte each), 254 characters per field and 4,096 bytes per row. 
    Integer field: 4 bytes
    Small Integer: 2 bytes
    Float field: 8 bytes
    Character Field: 1 byte per character
    Logical Field: 2 bytes

    In my opinion the main problem is the limitation to max. 4,096 bytes per row which is alrready reached with 16 string fields (254 char length).
    This max. dataset length should be extended.
     

    5 Comments »  Posted by  Stefan S.  to MapInfo Professional Mar 30, 2011
  • 430
    Points
    Make forms and expression fields larger or make dialog boxes sizable (where users can click in corner and dynamically enlarge the form).

    Most people have larger monitors now and the dialog form fields sizes are too small to clearly view/enter long expressions.

    User-added image

    This is the case for the Update Column expression form and the SQL Select form.
    0 Comments »  Posted by  Kalu  to MapInfo Professional Oct 11, 2012
  • 240
    Points
    I think that the collection of region styles are much to limited and would like to be able to import more region styles from other sources. I also think that it would be very useful to have a tool, built into the software, in which it is possible to design your own region styles, and subsequently add them to the region style library. In our company, we have a standard for which patterns should be used for different rocktypes. This standard cannot be used in MapInfo, since there is no way of modifying the region style library.

    Furthermore, I would like to have the option of scaling the pattern in a region style with the current zoom level, so that the symbols does not become huge when you zoom out.
  • 190
    Points
    Create PDF with Save Window commandNot implementing at this time
    Create a PDF output with the Save Window command (like creating JPG, PNG, EMF, etc). This would allow MapBasic to control some of the PDF attributes - such as resolution, PDF layering, etc. 

    At the moment PDFs are created using an external driver, so MapBasic cannot control PDF attributes.

    It would be valuable to be able to automate the batch printing of PDFs and control some of the PDF attributes using MapBasic.




    1 Comment »  Posted by  Kalu  to MapInfo Professional Nov 17, 2011
  • 210
    Points
    I can't fathom how many times I've accidently screwed up data while using the "Update Column" tool. The problem is that this dialog keeps resetting the values inside the listboxes, so if I'm not cautious I'm constantly overwriting the wrong column in a table.

    My usual workflow goes like this:
    - Load the Update Column tool,  choose a table, column to update, and enter a formula into the value box
    - Remember that I actually want to update a different table or a query based off the table, so I go back and change the value for "Table to Update" to the query. Most of this dialog retains it's values EXCEPT for the column to update box, which has switched to the first column in the query. Since this box was hidden by the "Table to Update" dropdown there's no immediate visual queue that the value has changed. 
    - Without carefully double-checking all the values in the dialog, it looks like it's remembered my previous selections. I click OK and end up overwriting the wrong column in the table.

    I think this dialog could be made much safer if the logic was changed a little. At the moment, changing the "Table to Update" forces "Column to Update" to reset to its first value. I think the dialog logic should be fixed so that when "Table to Update" changes, the "Column to Update" box retains its value IF the same column exists in the new "Table to Update". 

    This should be a quick fix to make to the MapInfo code which would greatly improve MapInfo's user friendliness!

    0 Comments »  Posted by  Nyall.Dawson  to MapInfo Professional Apr 23, 2012
  • 170
    Points
    A client has requested the following, resulting from years of annoyance ad time wasting:

    In Discover can we find a way to get the Title Block text centred? It is always off to one side unless the title is the shortest text possible, and we have to constant zoom in and out to make sure it really is centred once you edit it.

    Also the text in the title block is hard to select, as it selects off to one side.
  • 190
    Points

    Implement a fix for the long ongoing issue of jumbled custom labels after packing a table. I bet many a map has been created from a workspace where tables have been packed (cleaned) since the workspace was created and the labels are now wrong. This in effect results in misleading or incorrect maps that could potentially have drastic consequences (if not picked up), not to mention the time required to re-label all custom labeled features. MapInfo's inability so far to recognise, or more importantly implement a proper solution, to this indexing issue is unsatisfactory.

    1 Comment »  Posted by  Ben  to MapInfo Professional Apr 18, 2011
  • 190
    Points

    Could I make a suggestion that PBBI re-engineer the way that indexes work on the tab files.

     

    I am working with some big files just now and it is a pain to have to remember to keep deleting any indexes.

     

    If you, for example, use Append Rows to Table and the table you are appending to is both large and has one or more indexes, then even if only appending a couple of hundred objects could take an hour. Delete the index and the same Append completes in seconds. This suggests to me that the index is being updated after each object is appended. You could solve that by only updating the index after all objects have been appended.

     

    You get the same issue with an Erase Outside if you are trying to clip out a small area from a bigger data set.

     

    I had a example last week with a table with 200,000 polygons for the World where Erase Outside to clip out Europe had made virtually no progress after 6 hours with an index present, and finished in less than five minutes once I cancelled it, deleted the index and then ran the same thing again.

  • 170
    Points
    It would be useful to be able to scroll up/down in the MapBasic window and the Info Tool window by rolling the mouse wheel. You can do this with the Browser window and Message window. Is this a bug? The window behaviour should be consistent.
    0 Comments »  Posted by  Kalu  to MapInfo Professional Aug 23, 2012

 
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