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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:06:58 -0600
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From:         Eric M Fowler <emfowler@CONVEX.CSD.UWM.EDU>
Subject:      USFS

I am trying to get in touch with someone from the
US Forest Service, on the net.  I am especially
interested in persons from the midwest.  Please
Email me.  My interest is in making contact with
a National Forest in Escanaba, MI via internet
but noone there is on the net?
thanks
Eric-
emfowler@convex.csd.uwm.edu
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From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse)
Subject: Re: Use of GIS in Epidemiology and Public Health
Organization: Katatura State Hospital, Windhoek, Namibia
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:34:27 GMT

In <5661.9211051121@uxb.liv.ac.uk> jmarsden@UXB.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Mr. J. Marsden) writes:

>Fellow netters,
>I noticed the recent chat about epidemiology and GIS, please see below
>for publications about work done at our laboratory. There is a small
>charge to cover printing and postage given in pounds sterling, eg #5.

Watch for announcements by the CDC/WHO of their EpiMap system
currently in beta-test. (Very very promising, indeed!)

It is a cousin of the EpiInfo package which is on simtel and
its mirrors which is a very nifty data entry system with data
base and analysis features. 

greetings, el
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Windhoek, Namibia           ;____/ (postmaster@uonamib.NA) Postmaster NAmibia
From: hoffmann@URZDFN.KARTOGRAPHIE.TU-DRESDEN.DBP.DE
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Subject: RE: Map based emergency response system
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:49:54 GMT
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I have seen such kind of MMM system from DORNIER Inc. (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
which has been designed for emergency services (police, fire-brigades, medical
emergency help). MMM = multi-medial mapping. You get instant coordinate
positions and on-demand views for objects of interests (like building
photographs, room location schemes etc.). Multi-scaled scanned topo maps
are used from a CD-ROM.

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From: navanax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Indiana Jones)
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Subject: Mac for GIS Summary
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:39:12 GMT
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   Josh -
    I posted the summary I promised a week ago today. Perhaps you missed
it? I can send it to you directly if you wish, although I tried to do
this earlier today and the e-mail bounced back saying 'unknown address'.
Can you send me your e-mail address once again (directly), so I can
verify it or just reply to your message? Thanks.

   Tom Edwards
   Dept. of Geography
   Univ. of Washington
   navanax@u.washington.edu
From: GIS11@sun1.cos.ns.ca (MARK DOUGLAS JOHN HOEL)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: municipal gis, re. infrastructure management
Keywords: infrastructure and gis
Date: 14 Nov 92 02:16:32 GMT
Organization: College of Geographic Sciences


	I am in urgent need of information regarding the role of gis in the 
management of urban infrastructure,(and implimentation examples), as local
reference sources are scarce! Any interesting articles, papers, or 
comments would be greatly appreciated. 
	Also, is anyone interested in the role of gis for creating and 
maintaining sustainable cities(aka stopping the madness of uncontrolled 
growth, conspicuous consumption, and urban sprawl......which contribute to 
the fiscal anarchy and planning nightmares facing our cities today) ? I 
welcome all comments, and arguments(for and against).
                                                  
                                                     Thank you(in advance);

                                                          Charlemagne(GIS11)
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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:46:11 CST
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From:         "(Chris Devonport)" <chris@IRONWOOD.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Ballarat Conference, or how to disseminate information.

Thinking about the possibilities of putting the proceedings of a recent
workshop in Darwin on GIS and Environmental Rehabilitation on an ftp
account the problem of figures and tables that are manually cut and
pasted in the published proceedings (e.g. SURFER plots) comes to
mind.   I suppose we could scan them into the postscript version but
obviously not the text ?

Any ideas ?


Chris Devonport			  Internet: chris@ironwood.ntu.edu.au
GIS Laboratory			                   Voice: 089 466 711
Northern Territory University, Australia             Fax: 089 410 460
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From: bthoen@teal.csn.org (Bill Thoen)
Subject: REQUEST -- Looking for NADCON software
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:24:43 GMT

I'm looking for a program called NADCON (version 2.1, not and earlier version)
If anyone knows where it can be found, I'd appretiate your help.

NADCON is a public-domain program that can convert NAD27 coordinates to NAD83
and vice-versa.  It also comes with source code in FORTRAN, and that's really
what I'm after. If we can find it, I'll post it on my ftp site for anyone 
else who wants it.

Thanks for any help!

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From: gie@charon.er.usgs.gov (Gerald I. Evenden)
Subject: Gauss-Kruger map projection
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 15:29:00 GMT

> Subject:      Gauss-Kruger map projection (was map coordinates in Poland)
> >  It is Gauss-Kruger projection and use every 6 degrees longitude columns
> >  and 4 degrees lattitude rows projected. The characters used for describing
> >  rows (belts,zones) of Poland territory are "M" and "N'.
> 
> Piotr's reply about Polish coordinates, from which the above is taken,
> awakens ancient memories: I am sure that I once read, or heard, that the
> calculations needed to solve the equations for creating the Gauss-Kruger
> projection constituted one of the first applications (successful applications?)
> of the world's first commercially available electronic computer (something
> I believe was called the Univac or similar). Can anyone confirm this, or
> put my admittedly failing memories to rights?
> 
> Darius Bartlett, DJB@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE

Gauss-Kruger is a common alias for the Transverse Mercator projection.
The Polish projection under discussion is possibly related to former
USSR GK system that had many similarities to the Universal Transverse
Mercator (UTM) system.  To my current knowledge, major differences seem
to be 1. scale factor at central meridian (vs. .9996 for UTM) and 6
degree longitude zones indexed from Greenwich (vs. 180th meridian).

Usage of Transvers Mercator may have had historic elements in modern
computer history because one early usage of machines was the generation
of artillery tables for the military.  It is not much of a jump from
this activity to military cartographic usages.  TM software has been
around as long as I've been involved with computers (~30yrs.).

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From:         "(Robert B. Jacobson)" <JACOBSON@QVARSA.ER.USGS.GOV>
Subject:      Re: ARC/INFO discussi

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From:         Mr Liang Rao <JCDR01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: ARC/INFO discussion list
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Dear GIS-L netters,

The CHEST (Combined Higher Education Software Team) in UK has
several discussion lists. The most alive ones are ARC-INFO,
PC-Graphics, XWindows and VISUAL.

To subscribe to these lists, you should send an e-mail to
MAILBASE@MAILBASE.ac.UK   (if you are outside UK). The message
should be (for example, ARC-INFO):

Sub CHEST-ARC-INFO   firstname lastname
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good luck! Liang Rao, University of Liverpool

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From: tim@hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White)
Subject: Re: GRASS and ERDAS nologng under WINDOWS NT
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  8 Nov 92 15:22:32 GMT

dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble) writes:

>Elsewhere I see that Microsoft has delayed the release of Windows NT
>again. Maybe late next year?
 
   Looks that way. From Murph's November VAPORWARE......

>  
>                                VAPORWARE
>                              Murphy Sewall
>                    From the November 1992 APPLE PULP
>             H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
>                                $24/year
>                             P.O. Box 380027
>                          East Hartford, CT 06138-0027
>                    *** NOTE New P.O. Box and Zip Code ***
>                   Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588
>        Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation
>  
>  NT = Not on Time.
>  Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has admitted that Windows NT will miss
>  its promised 1992 shipping date.  What else is new?  After all
>  Microsoft practically invented vaporware as a strategic concept.  A
>  number of industry analysts and developers expect NT's shipment date
>  to keep on slipping until at least the third or fourth quarter of
>  1993.  - InfoWorld and PC Week 28 September
>  
>  
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From:         MR A D JONES <ajones@METZ.UNE.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Using a GIS in a study of SOil Erosion
              11, 92 11:16 am

Adrian,

We have been using PC Arc/Info on a network for about 2 years with no
problems.  We have a 486 server with 20 386SX micros for class use.
The network is Novell 3.11.

The AUTOEXEC.BAT file contains the following :

SET ARC=I:\ARCEXE
SET ARCSHELL=D:\ARCEXE\ARCSHELL
SET CGIPATH=I:\ARCEXE\CGI

We run the programs from the local drive where we have the digital data
as we do not allow the students write access to the server hard disk.  The
local micros each have a 40MB hard disk.  100MB would be better, but not
essential.  I: is the drive on the server and D: is one of the drives on
the local micro.  We use C: for system software and D: for temporary student
data.  For more advanced work we would give students limited access to the
server with a password.  At the moment students can run Arc/Info from the
local hard disk without a password.  All the Arc/Info software is kept on
the main server, but Arcshell and other files which have to be opened and
closed by students are on drive D:.

We also use the upper memory for as many drivers,etc as possible so that
as much of the 640K as possible is available for Arc/Info.

I hope the above is of some help and that you are able to get it working.

Alan Jones,
Department of Geography & Planning,
University of New England,
ARMIDALE,
NSW 2351,
Australia
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:30:21 -0500
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From:         hoffmann@URZDFN.KARTOGRAPHIE.TU-DRESDEN.DBP.DE
Subject:      Environmental DBS

F.Y.I.:   I has been asked to distribute the following info:
------------------------------------------------------------
   "UMWELDATENBANKEN - Vom Konzept zum Schema"

   Beitraege zum 6./7. Treffen des Arbeitskreises Umweltdatenbanken
   im Fachausschuss 4.6 der Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (Germany).
   ISSN 0176-7275, Universitaet Lueneburg, September, 1992.
   Arbeitsbericht Nr. 112 des Fachbereichs Wirtschafts- und
   Sozialwissenschaften.

Address for ordering: Universitaet Lueneburg, FB FFB,
                      Hindenburgstr. 23 a
                      W-2120 LUENEBURG, Germany

Price: 12.- DM

CONTENT (edited by Matusall, Kremers, Behling):    -short titles only-

- Concept of the Data Bank of Munich Agrar Eco Systems Research Association
- Development of a Meta-Database as a Contribution to global scale EnvInfoSys
- LOTSE The Guidance system in WATIS (the coast-gis dbs)
- WADABA The database of the 'Wattenmeer'
- The database WANK
- Experience with a DBS for spatial experiment data sets
- A window-based GUI for a garbage transport system
- The database for contamination cadastre in Berlin
- The structure of ISIS Consulting system (a satellite image archiv system)
- Database scheme of ecosystem project "Bornhoeveder Seenkette"
- The data model of a chemical substance database.

For further information call:

* Horst Kremers (Berlin):       +49-30-25862687
* Veronica Matusall (Lueneburg):+49-4131-714534

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From:         Alan Fiermonte <ABZX@CORNELLA.BITNET>
Subject:      Information request

GIS-netters: (A GIS-L call before a phone call.)

Does anyone know an e-mail address for Daniel Schaub (?) at the Univ. of
Basel in Switzerland (Institute of Geography, Dept. of Landscape Ecology)?

I'm looking to gather info on cross-disciplinary study  being carried out
on the Island of Naxos (Greece).

Any info would be appreciated.

Alan Fiermonte
abzx@cornella.cit.cornell.edu
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From:         Andrew Stephanou <Andrew_Stephanou@MUWAYF.UNIMELB.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Re- GIS for Atari and/or

        Reply to:   RE>Re: GIS for Atari and/or Ac
Pip Forer,
Please let us know more about your work on multimedia mapping.
Regards,
Andrew

Andrew Stephanou
CSHE   (Centre for the Study of Higher Education)
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia

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Date: 11/10/92 2:11 PM
To: Andrew Stephanou
From: Geographic Information Systems
Darius,

The Acorn RISC machines, of which the Archimedes is part of the
range, have some  .......

You can do quite a lot with multimedia mapping on the Acorn platform
too. If you
 like I'll pass on some specs of some work done here.

  Pip Forer, Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch , New
Zealand


( it will bore the mainstream users but the operating system
certainly isn't the
 old BBC one.... RISC-OS3 is a very neat, fast OS with a very nice
GUI ----
 probably the best on the desktop right now in those respects )

Disclaimer : " I'm not an enthusiast, I just know quality when I see
it! "
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From: maas@leland.Stanford.EDU (andy maas)
Subject: Re: REQUEST Rec. for SIMPLE GIS for DOS
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:32:21 GMT

Etak Inc in Menlo Park has "C" language libraries which allow one to
develop a Mapping application.  The libraries allow the user to build
as complex a product as they wish.  Development time may be as short as
2-3 days for a simple program.  There is also now an Etak Software 
Developers you may be interested in.  If you want an off-the shelf
product, several people have built packages using Etak's libs.
For more information please send e-mail to ramaa@etak.com or
info@etak.com.

Etak Inc.
Inside Sales.
415-328-3825.
415-328-3148 Fax.
From: FRANKLIN@MATGEN.BITNET
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Subject: 10m grid database
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:08:00 GMT
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Duane Marble mentions a 10m grid database taking a city of
volume.  That was then.  Now I figure that the elevation
data could be stored on 2000 Exabyte tapes, costing about
$10K, and probably fitting into a station wagon.  This is w/o
any compression.
 ---------------------------------------------
 Wm. Randolph Franklin,  wrf@ecse.rpi.edu, (518) 276-6077;  Fax: -6261
 ECSE Dept., 6026 JEC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY, 12180 USA

I am at the University of Genoa until the end of December at the
following address.  Email to me at RPI, as given above, will be
forwarded to me automatically.  Usually this is fast, but  if I
don't reply, then email me again since bad weather can cause the
net to go down for over a week.

 Wm. Randolph Franklin,
 c/o Prof. Leila De Floriani,
 Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione,
 Universita` di Genova
 Viale Benedetto XV, 3
 16132 Genova
 ITALY

 Phone +39-10-3538023, fax:  +39-10-3538028

You cannot autoreply to mail that I send from Genoa because of
the mail header format.  Sorry.   Send your reply explicitly to
wrf@ecse.rpi.edu
From: brown@larix (Daniel G. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: gis reading lists
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:49:47 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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Hello netters.

	I'm hoping (for somewhat selfish reasons - thought I think this topic
might be of broader interest) that I can encourage a discussion of the use
of reading lists in undergraduate (or graduate) GIS courses.  Have you used
reading lists in such courses and how has it worked?  I'm thinking that, at
more advanced levels reading lists are a really good way to keep the material
current, and to incorporate the material I want to.

	For those of you who've used reading lists, I'm wondering if you can
make them, or potions of them available to those of us who are contemplating
using them. I am willing to compile a master list if reponses are sent to me.

	adTHANKSvance.

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From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Arc/Info .gra file output to TIFF
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:33:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Nov11.213310.783
Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University


The site I am at has Arc/Info 6.1 and we have a Polariod CI-3000
film recorder.  One of the users needs some slides to present at a
conference in about two weeks or so.  The Polariod CI-3000 will 
handle TIFF, or CGM files.  Does anyone know of a way to get from 
an Arc/Info .gra file to one of these formats?  Thanks.

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From:         Red Thunder From Downunder ! <GARY@SURVEY.DN.MU.OZ.AU>
Subject:      MIRANDA Programming Language

	Our computer science people want undergrad students to switch
	to MIRANDA as their introductory computer language at university.

	At present we start them on PASCAL, then move to FORTRAN and C
	through the years (actually C is taught first).

	No-one here has heard of MIRANDA and I would welcome any views
	on it.


	Thanks in advance,

	Gary Hunter
	The University of Melbourne
	Australia

	gary@survey.dn.mu.oz.au