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MapInfo Pro requests node-locked activation method rather than Licence server details when activating a concurrent licence

Posted by Claire Lush 12 November 2014 Categories: MapInfo Professional
This issue may occur where users have been switched from using node-locked to concurrent MapInfo licences. Although the served version of MapInfo is installed, when MapInfo is run the dialog for... read more
 
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How to set up a MapInfo DBMS table from SQL Server without a DSN

Posted by Crispin Flower 14 November 2013 Categories: GIS (general) MapInfo Professional SQL Server
A quick note to say that it is definitely possible to use a SQL Server spatial table in MapInfo Professional without an ODBC DSN. There's not much about this on the web, and the normal methods of... read more
 
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MapInfo automatic node generation (aka stream digitizing)

Posted by Crispin Flower 04 October 2013 Categories: MapInfo Professional
Originally posted by Timothy Derbyshire. You can press the N key on the keyboard to activate MapInfo's AutoNode function - this means that you can click once to start plotting your line, and then... read more
 
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British National Grid in MapInfo

Posted by Mike Lush 28 November 2012 Categories: GIS (general) MapInfo Professional Projections
A problem frequently encountered with sharing data between MapInfo and ArcGIS is that the British National Grid projection used by ArcGIS is accurate to 1 mm, whilst the standard projection used... read more
 
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When a new installation of MapInfo Pro prompts for MAPINFOW.FNT etc

Posted by Crispin Flower 03 August 2012 Categories: MapInfo Professional
On starting MapInfo Pro, it prompts for the location of MAPINFOW.FNT (and a few similar files). A file search shows that these files do not exist on the machine. This typically occurs when an ... read more
 
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Notes on importing spatial data into SQL Server 2008

Posted by Crispin Flower 17 November 2011 Categories: ArcGIS GIS (general) GISquirrel MapInfo Professional SQL Server
There are a variety of ways to do this, but often you will hit issues with data validity. If you have our ArcGIS Maplink product (or ArcSquirrel) then loading data in using this into a... read more
 
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Where to find the Ordnance Survey registration files

Posted by Crispin Flower 15 November 2011 Categories: ArcGIS GIS (general) MapInfo Professional
The registration files (world files and tab files) for all Ordnance Survey raster datasets can be downloaded from: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/geo-referencing.html These are... read more
 
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Using ECWs without world files in MapInfo

Posted by Crispin Flower 12 November 2011 Categories: GIS (general) MapInfo Professional
If you have ECW map images without world files, they may work fine in ArcGIS but MapInfo won't put them in the right place as it can't read the header information in the ECW. You could opening them... read more
 
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Using ECWs without world files in MapInfo

Posted by Crispin Flower 30 September 2011 Categories: MapInfo Professional
If you have ECW map images without world files, they may work fine in ArcGIS but MapInfo won't put them in the right place as it can't read the header information in the ECW. You could opening them... read more
 
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How to run Mapbasic code whenever a .tab file is opened

Posted by Crispin Flower 31 October 2006 Categories: MapInfo Professional
Mapbasic code can be run whenever a .tab file is opened by inserting code in the .tab file just after the header. e.g. ... !charset WindowsLatin1 Run Application... read more
 
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