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  1. questionI am planning a regional exploration work program. What tools are available in Discover?
    Occurrence How do I: A. Add coordinates to a series of discrete point locations such as proposed regional RAB/aircore drill targets, and then add an incrementing identifier (e.g. HoleID) to each location? B. Convert a series of proposed regional traverse lines/polylines into grid pegs/sample loc ...
  2. questionHow do I reproject my data?
    MapInfo and Discover provides a number of different Reprojection Utilities, depending on the type of data to be transformed. Each of these tools will create a copy of the data in the specified output projection, typically with a default _reproject suffix added to the input file name. These tool ...
  3. questionIs it possible to extract and update to a table the X/Y coordinates for a layer or group of selected points?
    Yes, use the Discover>Projections>Update Coordinates tool. By choosing "Selection" this will extract the coordinates for every selected point, and save these values into selected columns in a new or existing table. Alternatively select a Layer name and the coordinates for every point in t ...
  4. questionCan you use Discover to create stacked geological, geophysical and geochemical sections/ profiles?
    Discover has a number of tools that can produce profiles. The Surfaces>Draw Grid Profile uses a line or polyline drawn across multiple grids (e.g. soil geochemistry, FVD aeromagnetics, DEM) to generate a stacked profile as below: Additionally, one of the profiles can be coloured by any over ...
  5. questionHow can I add a unique number to identify each record in a browser?
    In Discover 10.0 you can use the Table Utilities->Add Unique Identifier tool. Not only does this automatically increment each record by a user-specified value (e.g. 1, 5 10 or -2), but it allows the user to add a prefix and/or suffix to each record. If you have an older version of Disc ...
  6. questionIs it possible to extract/update to columns the X/Y coordinates for all of the nodes of polygons or polylines?
    Yes, use the MODIFY>Nodes>Extract Nodes tool. This will extract every node into a new table, with X and Y coordinates automatically listed for each point.
  7. questionExtract Nodes Error: "Select one or more lines, polylines or regions"
    Occurrence Selecting multiple regions and applying the Extract Nodes tool. Solution Are you are trying to extract nodes from a rectangle, ellipse or rounded rectangle map object? This error message will be displayed if this is the case. In MapInfo these shapes are not treated as true map ...