[maplab-users] The right projection for "non eart" objects in MapLab

[expander@mail.com]

Thank you, FRED, for your reply to my MapInfo .tab import problems.
I've resolved this issue following your clear guidelines.
However I've got another questions: after importing and creating new layers (using previous Mapifo .tab files), I've created a new .map Map File with MapEdit.
Well, files I've imported aren't georeferenced, which means they have got "non earth" coordinates, using a common Mapinfo definition.
Moreover these files reference to a different part of the world, specifically to a precise part of Italy (with a linear extension of 200 km).
In my project I've used default system projection of your tutorial.map file relative, instead, to Lambert Conformal Conic projection for Canada (I suppose).
The output, in MapBrowser, is a Map file with no formal error but, nothing is visible in the map window: I think my layers are too small or too big for a correct visualisation in the map.
So, I wonder (if I wan't to georeference my data), if you may suggest which settings (scale, zoom, projection) might I use in this my project.
Thank you in advance for any help.

EXPANDER
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expander@mail.com


----- Original Message -----

From: Fred Warnock <warnock@dmsolutions.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:19:05 -0500 
To: maplab-users@dmsolutions.ca
Subject: Re: [maplab-users] ...about importing MAPINFO .tab files, again.

> CONNECTIONTYPE is an attribute of the Layer Object,
> 
> OGR is the setting you want it set to
> 
> CONNECTION is the accompanying attribute of layer in which you specify 
> the .tab file name... this is used instead of DATA, (another attribute 
> of the layer object)
> 
> If you set the "connectiontype" to "ogr", and then enter the file name 
> in "connection" instead of "data", and set your other attributes as you 
> would with any other type of spatial data, then you should be ok.
> 
> -- 
> Fred Warnock : Web, Graphic & Cartographic Design
>               : DM Solutions Group Inc.
> 

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