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Francois,
there are a couple mapping packages that will perform coordinate
transformations, the one that I have my undergrads use is called
Atlas Pro, it's the current version of Strategic Mapping's MapMaker
software.  It has some standard projections (cylindrical and conic)
or will back-project lat-long to x-y.

If you prefer,you can program the formulae from John Snyder's
map projections text using C, or Pascal, BASIC, etc. and
convert the files yourself.  You asked for shareware, and while
I don't know of shareware compilers, I do know that compilers
are easier to find on publically accessible computers than
packages like Atlas Pro.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but hopefully
it's a strat.
it's a start.

Barbara Buttenfield
NCGIA-Buffalo
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Coordinate transformation software (FORTRAN source code) is available from:

  National Geodetic Information Center
  N/CG174, Rockwall Building, Room 24
  National Geodetic Survey, NOAA
  Rockville, MD 20852-3019-3019
  USA

  phone: (301) 443-8631
  fax:   (301) 881-0390

  Cost is 98 USD.

  The name of the package is GCTP version 2.0.

  I believe this is also available through anonymous FTP.

  There are limitations to GCTP that you may find annoying:
    - It does not support geodetic datums. All ellipsoids are assumed to be

      geocentric.
    - It is impossible to explicitly associate an ellipsoid with
      geodetic (lat/long) coordinates.

  On the plus side, about 20 projections aresupported.




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>I believe the way to sign off a list is as follows:
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From:         "(Theodore B. Samsel)" <tbsamsel@DG11SVARMD.ER.USGS.GOV>
Subject:      The Caustic Sky video

The North Carolina Supercomputing Center has a video of some
of their efforts to visually depict the interaction of weather
and pollutants to form acid rain in 3 dimensions over time.
The video is called THE CAUSTIC SKY. It was shown at ISPRS in
August. Sorry, I can't find any more information on the group
who created it. (At this point in time).
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Thanks for the tip Gary, I'll cetainly check your brother out when he's here.

In the meantime I'll look at some of the work by Huff, Tufte and Monmonier.

What a strange topic for your brother to be lecturing on -- I see from the
stuff Jeremy gave me that he's got a degree in law ! (still takes all sorts
I suppose)

Thanks again, send me a note with any other references that occur to you
(or Alan)

--Justin, University of Portsmouth
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Dear Reed

Thanks for the references I'll certainly check them out.  Is bad data display
purely the opposite of good data display?

Dear Reed

Thanks for the references I'll certainly check them out.  Is bad data disply
purely the opposite of good data display?  Let me know what you think

--Justin
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Hi,

     A comment I have been hearing lately is that stat graphs in journal
articles are, occasionally, flat out wrong!  For example, the means table
and graph just aren't saying the same thing.  This would qualify as bad data
display at a most basic level.  An interesting question is whether the display
is wrong (bad display of good data) or the interpretation of the data is wrong
(good display of bad or non-hypothesis supporting data).
--Ok, who's trying to be sneaky?--

     Regarding personal kinds of posts on the list.  To be honest, this
list has been so dead for so long, I enjoy seeing anything on it:).  Of
course, there is always the set nomail and signoff options for those who
are either mail swamped or antisocial.

     So, how's the weather in London (a graph of it is optional)?
FRED DETWILER
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Just south of the middle of nowhere:7
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From:         "Great Map Dude" <EDNEY@BINGVAXA.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: BAD DATA DISPLAY / GRAPHS ETC.

Just to play the devil's advocate, how do you define (or intend to define)
"bad"?

Matthew Edney
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From:         Art Busbey <BUSBEY@GAMMA.IS.TCU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: projections on Mac

Dear Francois,
     I know of several cartographic apps. on the Mac for transferring between
coordinate systems and for displaying maps in different projections. The
application with the most extensive repertoire (so far as I know) is Whiz
Atlas, which is (alas) not public domain and is available from WTC \
Scientific in England for (I think) around $300 US. They can be
reached at WTC Scientific,152 Buxton Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 1NG,
UK, telelphone number 44-625-20210.

 Below is a description of the program from a column I write about Macintosh
geology programs:

'Program for drawing the earth in many different map projections including:
Equidistant Cylindrical, Mercator, Hammer, Sinusoidal, Miller, Mollweide,
Lambert Conformal, American Polyconic, Albers Equal-Area, Orthographic Polar,
Polar Equidistant, Orthographic Equatorial, Azimuthal Equidistant, Perspective
and Armadillo. Can correct for a variety of spheroids as well as a user-defined
spheroid. Includes some low resolution coastal outlines, political boundaries,
rivers and lakes. Polygons can be filled with patterns. Supports geographic
coordinate, the UTM system and the UK National Grid. Can also plot vector maps
with some structure symbols and point position maps where the size of the
symbol is based on user size data.

It is really a nice program and the cost is fairly low for the control one
has over the maps. It can also exchange files with two other programs they
sell, Whiz Map, which generates contour maps, and Whiz Surf, which can display
a variety of 3-D surfaces.

The other apps., I know are for plate tectonic modelling and are not as flexible
as WhizMap for dealing with a standard variety of modern cartographic data. Did
you know that the USGS has a open file report as a HyperCard stack on the
standard map projections that they use? If you are interested E-mail me back
for more info and I will try to find it. You can obtain the stack from the
USGS.

Let me know if you come up with other such programs for the Mac.

Dr. Arthur B. Busbey
Department of Geology
Box 30798
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX 76129
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This would really work much, much better as a moderated meeting, such as
that available from  Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu  (INTERNET).  I can
sympathize with anyone who must read a dozen lines of routing mish-mash
with each message over a low-speed line, not to mention replies that
repeat someone else's previous message.

Should I send this and add to the problem for some?  What the heck . . .

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From:         Marsha Woodbury <mcwg9235@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:      RE: examples, please
              "FOXG@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU" at Nov 11, 92 12:38 pm

to Geoff and others:

Mind you, I am no expert...the director of the lab is
David Kuck, and the e-mail goes to d-kuck@uiuc.edu

In short, the people at the lab do the most amazing
graphical presentations of numerical data.  They take
everything that is known about a storm--height of cloud,
density, windspeed, etc. and feed it into their model--
and we see the cloud from it's lowly beginnings to gaining
mass as it moves at speed over the ground.  Very
dramatic.  Edward Tufte came here and worked with them
last year to add visual clues, so the viewer could
work out the length in miles, etc.  It is amazing
to see their presentations of otherwise dull data--
electrons bouncing, etc. all in animated, colorful,
expressionistic form.
--
Marsha Woodbury   marsha-w@uiuc.edu
A simile is like a metaphor.
University of Illinois, Middle of Nowhere
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Subject:      Re: Definitely Huff

HI MARSHA

So then what have you got against the 'E' mail species in general?????

You could at least give us some credit for bodging up the world!

So then what is this Huff book then?  It sounds like an interesting read on
how to manipuale statistics whilst appearing to depict the trueth.

Anyway keep on writting!
Rich 'Universuty of Portsmouth' - twinned with nowhere
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Although I don't want to waste bandwidth, I must repsond to what
jb krygier of penn state said about USA TODAY's (cutesy graphics).
I use to create infographics for that paper. Currently I am teaching
and finishing my teaching degree at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Anyways, the point I wish to make is that infographics in the press is a
serious industry. I am currently teaching a class in visual reporting. This
class does not teach drawing, and it isn't desktop publishing 101. Instead,
I focus on accuracy, reserach, and the reporting aspects of information.
I have read Tufte, Huffe, Holmes and Monmonier. I have noticed that there
is a bad tendancy among academia to disregard and look down upon what is
being done in newspapers. This is a shame. There are people who are
concerned with accuracy. I'm sorry, but the boring graphics that are found
in academic journals will never cut it in a newspaper. I don't advocate doing
graphics in the USA TODAY style (which I personally think is a little too
artsy) but then again I don't advocate doing boring graphics. I aslo stress
that just because one knows how to chart on the Mac, that doesn't make you
a graphics reporter.  Sorry for the soapbox

Let's see if I can get everyone else to signoff this list now ;)

Scott Davis
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Ball State University
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I too am tired of this constant inane chatter!
Get me off this list.

Jim Engstrom
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From:         Gary Davis <davis@UNBSJ.CA>
Subject:      Re: BAD DATA DISPLAY / GRAPHS ETC.

On Thu, 12 Nov 1992, Justin (MAPPAMUNDI@CSOVAX.PORTSMOUTH.AC.UK) wrote:

> Thanks for the tip Gary, I'll cetainly check your brother out when he's here.
> What a strange topic for your brother to be lecturing on -- I see from the
> stuff Jeremy gave me that he's got a degree in law ! (still takes all sorts
> I suppose)

He also has am MBA from Canada's top business school, and he works for an
accounting firm, even though he is not an accountant!  You think he's
smart, you should met me!
	Alan is a very eclectic thinker, which is what makes him good at
what he does.  He also designs kites, and many of his friends are
musicians.  When he was a kid, his favourite ice hockey team was the
Toronto Maple Leafs (correct spelling in this case).  Anything else you
would like to know?
- Gary
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From:         Jeff.Spitulnik@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
Subject:      RE: AUDIO DIMENSIONS IN CARTOGRAPHY

You might want to check out some research about media and learning. Here
are two articles I've found to be valuable sources:

Kozma, Robert B. (1991)  RLearning with Media,S Review of Educational
Research, Vol. 61(2), pp. 179-211.

Salomon, G. (1979).  Interaction of media, cognition, and learning, San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Both Kozma and Salomon are cognitive psychologists in education. Bob's
most recent research has been using multiple representations (including
animation and sound representations) to teach chemistry.

--Jeff Spitulnik
--School of Education
--University of Michigan
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From:         Jeff.Spitulnik@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
Subject:      RE: examples, please

I've seen the thunderstorm thing and it's really beautiful...Tufte showed
it when he was here last Spring and talked about some of the design issues
they went over while putting it together.

Another example of sonification from the NCSA is in their Landscape Dynamics
of Yellowstone National Park representation. They show several representations
of the role of forest fires in the park from 1690 to 1990 including one with
animated colors and sounds representing the average age of the trees in the
park and occurrences of fires. It's pretty neat, but in a small study I did
trying to get preliminary data on whether this representation works or not,
most of the subjects were just confused and annoyed with the sound. Mind, you
this was not a rigorous study, so the results are anecdotal at best ;-).

Here's another example I think I mentioned in a previous message: Bob Kozma
(Prof in the School of Education) is researching media affects on students
learning chemistry. (whoops, I meant 'effects') His software shows multiple
representations of concepts. For example, to show the effect of heating
something, the student can look at a video clip of the apparatus in the lab
including the thermometer, see a time-temp-energy-whatever graph, and see
and hear "molecules" bouncing around in a beaker. You hear a click sound when
molecules collide or hit the side of the beaker and I think the pitch goes
up as the temp goes up. It's good stuff; he'll be running some studies soon.

Cheers!
--Jeff Spitulnik
--School of Education
--University of Michigan
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Tufte is superb.  The classic of course is Darrell Huff's "How to Lie with
Statistics" copyrighted in 1954, but still as fresh as the morning dew -- and
still ignored by most "graphic artists".  In 1991 Mark Monmonier created an
 analog for cartographers: "How to lie with Maps", University of Chicago Press.

			Charlie Hendricksen  veritas@u.washington.edu
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please unsubscribe me from this list.  There is too much private
discussion and rehashing of obvious sources that should be in
a FAQ file.  I cannot afford to pay for the machine cycles (yes
I pay for it myself, it is not paid for by my institution.)
Chatting has its place, but it shouldn't be copied to dozens or
hundreds of other-people at the expense of the net.

I am sorry to see a potentially good idea like this list get
swamped with chat.
-Jeff
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Subject:      funny aspect to sound

Marsha Woodbury wrote
>is the sound the rush of wind, the sound of fire?  Does it go with what
>you are seeing?
>
>so you asked your mother to be the "sample" again, I see...

My mom loved the psychadelic flashes of color, but was annoyed with the sound.
My cat crawled under the couch.
The neighbors called the police with a noise complaint.
:-)

Seriously, though:
There are several things happening.
1) Patches of color on the map are changing shape and color as time progresses.
2) I think the rule is the darker the green, the older the forest.
3) Fire appears as localized patches of red.
4) In terms of sound, pitch _AND_ volume (the annoying part I think) gets
   higher as the age of the forest progresses. Loud static/crackling noises
   indicate fire.

--Jeff Spitulnik
--School of Education
--University of Michigan
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From:         MAPPAMUNDI@CSOVAX.PORTSMOUTH.AC.UK
Subject:      RE: AUDIO DIMENSIONS IN CARTOGRAPHY

Fellow INGRAFX users,

As part of the coursework component of my advanced cartography course,
I have to come up with a research bid or grant application on a topic
derived from the discussions and themes in class.

Last week, we examined the issues surrounding the MacEachren & DiBiasey
(1991) animated AIDS map article. One of the subjects raised was the use
of audio as part of the cartographic representation process. I am very
interested in this kind of thing anyway but I would appreciate some refer-
ences concerned with (a) any work carried out so far in this field and (b)
possibilites for research.

Thanks
Lee

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH
GREAT BRITAIN.
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From:         Gary Davis <davis@UNBSJ.CA>
Subject:      Re: Simulation (was "funny aspect to sound")

On Thu, 12 Nov 1992, Marsha Woodbury wrote:

> Here at the U of I, prof Stan Smith, Chemistry, has a whole lab
> of simulated chemistry experiments--uses multi-media at each station,

I am nearly finished writing a computer simulator of a small business -
which has its own information presentation problems -- and would like to
get into things like simulated scientific experiments and other learning
tools.  Could Marsha send me some information about Stan Smith's work, and
could anyone else suggest areas where interactive simulation/learning
tools might be worth developing.  (The main constraint is that there is
quite a lot of initial design 'overhead'.)
-- Gary
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From:         Art Busbey <BUSBEY@GAMMA.IS.TCU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: projections on Mac

Dear Francois,

I just remembered another program to add to WhizAtlas as Mac-based mapping/
coordinate transform programs. Azimuth is a sort of mapping/CAD program
sold (about $400) by Graphsoft, Inc. - the same people who sell MiniCAD.
It really has heavy-duty CAD tools along with the mapping software that
can be used to make additions to the standard projected maps. The
projections it can handle include 'pictorial perspective, mercator,
McBryde-Thomas, Miller Cylindrical, Albers, Lambert, Equidistant conic,
azimuthal equidistant and azimuth equal area. One can produce shaded
maps and clip maps to arbitrary rectangles.

I will keep you posted if I hear of any more.

Dr. Arthur B. Busbey
Department of Geology
Box 30798
Texas Christian University
Ft. Worth, TX 76129