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From:         ERIC B PYLE <epyle@TITAN.UCC.UMASS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Windows NT

I think PC ARC/INFO will go to NT. I know ArcCad will.
Eric B. Pyle
epyle@forwild.umass.edu
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From:         "T. M. Edwards" <navanax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      Map Display Libs

   Greetings everyone. I'm curious if anyone might know the range of
map display libraries that exist? I'd like to find something preferably in C
or even for Windows and Mac. It would be nice if they also had some
kind of 3-D capabilities. I know of ETAK's MapDraw Library and
Hipparchus from Geodyssey, but are there any other map display
engines out there? I'd be very interested in finding out about them.
   The basic gist of what I'm doing is looking for shortcuts to provide
some neat map visualization tools to users, instead of having
to do everything from scratch. Any info will be much welcome...

   Tom Edwards
   navanax@u.washington.edu
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From:         "T. M. Edwards" <navanax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      VIGIS-L Updates

   Greetings. As per Havard Tveite's suggestion to provide VIGIS-L
updates to GIS-L, I find this an excellent idea. If and when anything
'significant' comes up on VIGIS-L, some mention of it will be made to
the wider net audience. As to what 'significant' means, well, that's
a good question. So as not to crowd people's mailboxes to the extreme,
we will limit 'significant' items to ones of actual progress, e.g.,
prototypes, experimental results, new papers, conference annoucements,
etc. Thanks...

   Tom Edwards
   VIGIS-L Moderator
   navanax@u.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: parallel lines
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:48:09 GMT
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Does anybody have any work to do ???
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From: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble)
Subject: Re: VIGIS-L
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:10:19 GMT

While I am pleased to see some interest in the GIS community in what
the virtual reality work can mean to us, PLEASE don't implement it as
a list server! Dealing with MAPS-L is bad enough and yet another source
of large volumes of mail should be avoided if there is any alternate.
There is! Use the USENET instead of clogging mail boxes all over the
world. I was forced to give up on the two GRASS lists until they (Thanks!)
appeared as news feeds.
-- 
Duane F. Marble			       E-mail: dmarble@magnus.acs.osu.edu
Department of Geography                Telephone: (614) 292-2250
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210                   Fax: (614) 292-6213
From: dugan@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Robert Francis Dugan)
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Subject: SmallWorld
Date: 13 Dec 1992 22:45:18 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Keywords: SmallWorld Information

Here's a start... contact Peter Batty at:

peter.batty@smallworld.co.uk


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Bob Dugan	   dugan@maxine.wpi.edu  508-799-5150
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From: stahl@ipi.uni-hannover.de (Roland Stahl)
Subject: G-K coord. transform. problem in Arc/Info
Reply-To: stahl@ipi.uni-hannover.de
Organization: IPI University of Hannover
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:31:03 GMT

I have I problem transforming a coverage (or a coverages TIC-file) from the
german Gauss-Krueger coordinate system 3 (lat = 9 deg) to system 2 (lat = 6 deg).
Can anybody tell me the correct optinons and parameters that I'll have to
use during the Arc command "project"?
Actualy I'm working with Arc/Info 6.0.1 on a Sun Sparc Station 2; installing
Arc/Info 6.1 next week.
Any help will be very much appreciated.

rst


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From: stahl@ipi.uni-hannover.de (Roland Stahl)
Subject: Re:      Re: running INFO from menu interface
Reply-To: stahl@ipi.uni-hannover.de
Organization: IPI University of Hannover
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:06:17 GMT

WEIHE GUAN <GLLGUAN@UBVMS.BITNET> () writes:
>The problem is: In an aml program, I can call up arcedit and arcplot windows,
>as well as text browse windows, yet I haven't found a way to call up an INFO
>window. I tried to add a unix command in an aml to get a new window, hoping
>to enter a new arc session and from there to INFO, but anything following
>the "xterm &" line in that aml program were still executed in the old window
>instead of the new one :

Perhaps the &data AML-directive may help ?
For example you can start an Info-programm like this:
&data arc info
 arc
 info-commands
 q stop
&end
But I don't think it really can open an INFO-window.
                                             ^^^^^^^
Roland Stahl
email: stahl@ipi.uni-hannover.de

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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:14:00 CST
From:         CHUNGR@ISCSVAX.UNI.EDU
Subject:      Re: Voronoi Tessalation GIS

Please send me an advance copy of your paper also.
        Thanks.  Roy Chung  (Chungr@Iscsvax.uni.edu)
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From: jgibb@fox.nstn.ns.ca (John Gibb)
Subject: re: LIS/GIS Videos
Organization: Environment Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:47:23 GMT

There are three GIS related videos available from the Canadian Government.

a video on 'Modern Mapping' 
contact: 
Communications, 
Department of Energy Mines & Resources, 
580 Booth St., 
Ottawa, Ontario, 
Canada, 
K1A 0E4

a video on the Inland Waters, Coastal and Information Network (ICOIN),
contact: 
Director, 
Planning and Development, 
Canadian Hydrographic Service,
615 Booth St., 
Ottawa, Ontario, 
Canada, 
K1A 0E6

a video on the National Atlas Information Service
contact: 
Director, 
Geographical Services Division,
Canada Centre for Mapping,
615 Booth St.,
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0E9 
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:33:00 PST
From:         CAMPBELLH@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU
Subject:      tiger conversion algorithm

Dear Colleagues:
In preparing a class that concentrates on PC Based GIS architectures, the
thought occurs that it may prove beneficial for our students to experience
the process of converting TIGER files to MapInfo DOS and Windows formats.
Does anyone happen to know if algorithms are available for this type of
conversion. We have an AutoLisp program that will convert TIGER 1 to AutoCad
DXF format, but are looking for other algorithms to convert to MMI, MIF, or
DXF that will show the variety of approaches.

With Best Regards:
Hal Campbell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Computer Information Systems
Cal-State Unviersity-Humboldt
CAMPBELLH@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU
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From: randy@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Randy Kreuziger)
Subject: Reading DAM files with INFO GET on a Prime?
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:40:49 GMT

My office continues to use SAS version 5 on our Prime because version 6
creates DAM files instead of SAM files.  The files are then read into INFO
(of ARC/INFO) using the GET command.  Does anyone know how to get SAS 6 to 
write  SAM file or INFO to read DAM files?  Any help is appreciated!

Randy Kreuziger
Wildlife Information Systems
Wash. Dept. of Wildlife
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:05:59 PST
From:         Eric Weitzman <esri!sync!eric@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject:      Re: running INFO from menu interface

Try this command to start info in another window:

        "&sys cmdtool /infosys/info &"

I think that this approach may also work with xterm, ie,

        "&sys xterm /infosys/info &"

The startup program in your info directory (called PROFILE, if I recall
correctly) can launch the appropriate interface for your info session,
ie, the correct forms, programs, reports.

Eric Weitzman
eweitzman@esri.com
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:14:44 -0300
From:         norman@OCTOPUS.WR.USGS.GOV
Subject:      RE: sun angle and azimuth

>Norman:
>     With some help from the net, I have been able to locate the sun angle
>for my image in the header files that came with the image.  The sun angle
>was 54 degrees, and the azimuth was 131 degrees east of north, according to
>the EOSAT header information.
>     The image was made at 17:40 Greenwich time, which I believe works out
>to 11:40 AM local daylight-savings mountain time in Yellowstone.  Could the
>daylight savings time have fouled up the MacAstro prediction?
>                             Thanks for your help,
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>   ____                          Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>    /  )      /  /      /  /     Environmental Sciences Division
>   /--<   o  /  /      /--/      P.O. Box 2008, M.S. 6038
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>William W. Hargrove              (615) 574-1902
>hnw@mtqgrass.esd.ornl.gov        (615) 576-8646 (fax)



>
>Of the top of my head it looks like MacAstro needs to be reeducated.  The
>time is almost noon so the azimuth should be almost due south, say 175d.
>The date is before the equinox so the sun should be higher than 90-latitude
>say 48d.  I guess local time means Mountain Daylight Time so that would
>make the azimuth 15d further east (160d) and a bit lower (46d).  Who has
>the right numbers?
>                         Charlie Hendricksen  veritas@u.washington.edu


Charlie,

MacAstro has been re-educated (and so have I).  In the preferences the
azimuth origin was set to south instead of north, and the time difference
that I used was wrong.  Now it calculates the azimuth at 130 degrees and
the altitude at 54 degrees.

Norman Maher
norman@octopus.wr.usgs.gov
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From: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble)
Subject: Re: FTP
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 19:17:04 GMT

Many files moved over the Internet use the Unix utilities UUENCODE and
UUDECODE to encode binary files and to provide modest compression. PC
versions of these utilities are available as well.
-- 
Duane F. Marble			       E-mail: dmarble@magnus.acs.osu.edu
Department of Geography                Telephone: (614) 292-2250
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210                   Fax: (614) 292-6213
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:53:21 PST
From:         Timothy Child <tchild@AUTODESK.COM>
Subject:      RE: Data Formats

  Here is a correction and a couple of additions to your file
  extentsion list:

.dxf    The drawing interchange format. DXF(TM)
        is the data interchange file format used by AutoCAD(TM).

.dwg    Drawing file used by AutoCAD(TM).

.dxb    The binary drawing interchange file format for AutoCAD(TM).


 -Tim.
From: dozie@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au (Dozie Ezigbalike)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: LIS/GIS Videos
Date: 13 Dec 1992 23:13:57 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne, Dpt of Surveying and Land Information
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We are looking for current videos on LIS/GIS projects, applications,
etc. at a reasonably low level suitable for undergraduates (even first
years). The aim is to give them an overview of WHAT IS a GIS and what
applications GISs are used for; more of an interest-catching exercise.
Information about sources and costs welcome. Thanks.
Dozie Ezigbalike
The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:54:37 -0600
From:         Swee Leng Rapatz <slrapatz@DSRV2.SSC.GOV>
Subject:      JOB Vacancy Announcement

SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
PROGRAMMER/SOFTWARE ENGINEER

John E. Chance & Associates, Inc. (JECA), prime geodetic survey
subcontractor to The PB/MK Team, Superconducting Super Collider
project in Ellis County, (near Dallas) Texas will hire:

Programmers to work with project technical and scientific staff
to develop an integrated information management and processing
system for surveying engineering applications.  Applicants
should have a minimum of 2 years experience in ORACLE database
programming OR Intergraph Microstation/MDL.  Additionally,
applicants should have a minimum of 1 years experience
programming in FORTRAN and C/C++.  Experience in one or more
of the following is preferred: application integration;
MS-DOS/Windows/NT in a network environment (DEC ULTRIX);
Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit and ORACLE*CASE
tools.  Applicants should have a minimum of 2 years
associate technical degree in Computer Science or related
discipline (or an equivalent combination of education/
experience).  B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
Please fax or mail resume with salary history and references to:

Operations Manager
John E. Chance & Associates, Inc.
5787 S. Hampton Rd. Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75232
Fax: (214) 331-4423

or email:  slrapatz@dsrv2.ssc.gov

Equal Opportunity Employer /M/F/V/H
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From: martin@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Martin Breunig)
Subject: 3D-algorithms on triangulations 
Reply-To: martin@informatik.uni-bonn.de
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:07:53 GMT


Please,

does anyone know 3D-ALGORITHMS ON TRIANGULATIONS (like intersection of two
triangulations)? We are looking for algorithms on NETS OF TETRAHEDRONS as
well (topology in the net like neighbourhood etc. and intersections of two 
tetrahedron nets). Other 3D-standard-algorithms on 3D-solids like intersections etc.???

Preferred programming language is C, but we accept others as well.


Martin Breunig
martin@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de
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From:         Robert Hall <rhall@SPARC1.R09.EPA.GOV>

I would like to get on your email list. Thanks Bob Hall.
From: ron@topaz.bds.com (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: CIA's World Data Bank II -- info?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 18:01:35 GMT
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The NTIS isn't a "reseller,"  it's the part of the government that handles
this sort of thing (selling agency data).

You can FTP a processed wdb2 from various places along with a odd little
program that reads the processed data (it unforunately requires an obscure
plotting package to read it, which is also available for ftp).  Check your
archie servers.

At least the stuff avaiable for FTP isn't that great.  A better choice is
DMA's Digital Chart Of the World, which has better resolution and a richer
level of detail.  DCW is public domain and available on CDROM from USGS.

-Ron
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:03:21 -0300
From:         norman@OCTOPUS.WR.USGS.GOV
Subject:      Re: MacAstro

Yes, MacAstro is in fact for the Macintosh.  I don't have anything for PC
or UNIX, but I looked into the ftp site at wuarchive.wustl.edu
/mirrors/msdos/astronomy and there are a whole slough of similar sounding
programs like astro, ephem, moon, planet, skyplot, starview, etc..., for PC
users.  I didn't download or try any of them though.

You can get MacAstro from anonymous ftp at sumex-aim.stanford.edu
/info-mac or from isdmnl.wr.usgs.gov (130.118.4.2) in  /.pmg.  If you go
into the isdmnl site you can also get a couple of interesting gif images of
the central california coast.  cencal1.gif is a colorized shaded relief
image showing both the land and the offshore seafloor topography with large
submarine canyons and several seamounts.  To give some perspective, the
deepest areas offshore are around 3500 m (11,500 ft) below sea level and
the highest point on land is Mnt. Diablo (due east of San Francisco) at
1,173 m (3,849 ft.).  cencal2.gif is the same image with the boundaries of
the newly designated Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and two
adjacent sanctuaries to the north overlayed.

Norman Maher
Branch of Pacific Marine Geology
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Rd., MS 999
Menlo Park, CA  94025

norman@octopus.wr.usgs.gov

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-----------------------------------

Hi, Norman

    Is MacAstro for Macintosh?  Would you have anything like that for PC or
UNIX?

   Thanks.


A-Xing Zhu                            axing@esker.geog.utoronto.ca
Dept. of Geography                    axing@eos.geog.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
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Canada M5S 1A1
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:47:16 EST
From:         Ken Knoerr <dknoer@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU>
Subject:      GIS/REMOTE SENSING RELATED POSITION OPENING

Please circulate the following announcement for a GIS/Remote Sensing related
academic position in the School of the Environment at Duke University to anyone
you think might be interested in it.  Note that the position can be filled at
any professorial level.  Because of a delay in the publication of the position
announcement, the acceptance date for applications have been extended until
at least sometime in early January 1993.




                               Duke University
                          School of the Environment


POSITION:  Assistant, Associate, or full Professor, with leadership
responsibility in Landscape Ecology, in the School of the
Environment.


DUTIES:   This tenure track position is available in September 1993 with both
research and teaching responsibilities.  This person will develop
graduate courses in landscape ecology and GIS as well as additional
courses in his or her area of expertise.

The specific areas of research are open but applicants who deal with
the relationship between environmental patterns and environmental
processes, areas such as transport of nutrients and water among
ecosystems or the pattern and distribution of habitat types and their
influence on biodiversity, will be considered.  The research area
will form an important link between the water and air, forestry,
wetlands, ecotoxicology and policy research faculty as well as with
other science faculty in other departments.  Interdisciplinary
research and the acquisition of external funding is expected as is
publication of results in refereed journals.  Participation in the
graduate research and professional programs and directing graduate
student research are required by the incumbent in this position.


QUALIFICATIONS:   Requires a Ph.D. in landscape ecology, ecology, geography,
forestry, biology, plant ecology, or related area.  Strong
communication skills and a commitment to graduate education are
required.  Experience in the application of GIS to large-scale
environmental problems in remote sensing, plant or animal
community analysis, or systems analysis is desirable.


SALARY/BENEFITS:  Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
The retirement program is TIAA/CREF, VALIC and other select funds.
Other Duke University benefits include medical benefits and
college tuition support for up to two children.


APPLICATION:  Send letter of application, complete resume, transcripts (recent
graduates only), statement of research interests and the names of
three references by December 15, 1992 (or until a qualified
candidate applies thereafter) to:

                Dr. Curtis J. Richardson
                Chair of Search Committee
                School of the Environment
                Duke University
                Durham, North Carolina 27708-0328
                USA

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.
From: phil@SPOCK.UARK.EDU (Phil Chaney)
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Subject: Re: sun angle and azimuth
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:46:34 GMT
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>
> Hello Netters:
>
>      If I have a TM image of Yellowstone Nat'l Park made at 17:40 Greenwich
> time on August 2, 1989, how can I calculate the sun's altitude and azimuth?
> I want to split the image into well-lighted and shaded areas in order to
> get a better image classification of burn severity.  I know the center of
> the image, and that it was made at 11:40 AM local time (I think).
>      Can anyone point me in the right direction (grin)?
>                                    Thanks,

If you wish to perform the calculations yourself, the formulas (and programs)
are explained in the LEITZ Ephemeris. This publication comes out annually,
and can be found at any surveying/engineering supply house. The publication
contains charts of data for calulating True North from observations of the
sun, polaris, or several other stars. Good Luck!
........................................................................
Phillip L. Chaney                                  Center for Advanced
Research Specialist                *    *          Spatial Technologies
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From:         "Patrick L. Jones" <pjones@NEON.MITRE.ORG>
Subject:      Electronic SDTS ??

Howdy,

        Is there available on the net an electronic copy of the
Spatial Data Transfer Standard ??.   If so please let me know where
I can get it from.


                                        Thanx


                                        Patrick Jones
                                        plj@mitre.org
                                        703-883-1761
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:32:12 EST
From:         Michael Camann <camann@ATHENA.CS.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      test

This is a test-- please ignore.
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