HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ccoprmm@phantom.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Disclaimer page on client startup...
Date: 22 Dec 1992 11:01:49 -0500
Organization: Office of Information Technoloy, Georgia Tech
NNTP-Posting-Host: oit.gatech.edu

In article <7056@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.224353.7718@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
>kann@picasso.cc.rochester.edu (Kirk Anne) writes:
>|> On receiving the directory listing, if a particular file name appears,
>|> display it in a dialog box or on the screen first before displaying the
>|> file list (minus the particular file).
>
>The same sort of thing could be used as an urgent newsflash type of
>message. Potentially quite a useful thing in a gopher being used as a CWIS...

  Should this be a new type or an agreed upon name for an entry in a 
directory listing? I know I may get flamed for even suggesting a new
type but there is a precedent for a type that functions differently.
  
  Also, do we want it to be displayed the same way all files are displayed
or do we want a different type of window to be displayed when this type
of entry in encountered?

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Georgia Institute of Technology      ! here soon via MIME. Your view of the 
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From: jgibb@fox.nstn.ns.ca (John Gibb)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Small Public School Information System
Keywords: Infosystem School Ecucation Database
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:59:30 GMT
Organization: Environment Canada

I am looking for information on any dos based registration, student 
infomation and scheduling software systems that are available either that 
have been developed in house at a school, public domain, shareware or low end
commercial packages. It is for a school in Goose Bay Labrador with a very 
small budget. If this is the inappropriate form for the message please 
forward it to a more likely group. Merry Christmas.
From: cogs1@slate.mines.colorado.edu (THOEN WILLIAM )
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: re: anybody doing own DCW programming
Date: 25 Dec 92 19:31:22 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Yes, I am.  Just out of curiousity, what features in a program that would
output DCW data would people *really* like to see?  (besides the obviously
missing feature in VPFVIEW of not being able to extract features into a
file containing lat & long, and associated attributes).

- Bill Thoen
  cogs1@mines.colorado.edu
or bthoen@csn.org
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:10:05 EST
From:         "John A. Kloepper" <71543.3503@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject:      New Zealand Maps?

I will be relocating to New Zealand very soon and would like to get ahold
of a map of the country in either .dwg or .dxf format. Any thoughts or
ideas are appreciated over my only other option of scanning and raster
tracing it myself.
From: adoyle@BBN.COM (Allan Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: internet.resources.earth.sci
Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:59:46 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: adoyle@BBN.COM (Allan Doyle)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

I received email this morning:

>Allan -
>
>I looked for <subject> in csn.org, but didn't spot it under pub/, or
>pub/internet/, or pub/library/.  Please advise (by GIS-L?) where it
>lies.  ??  thanx -


	anonymous ftp: csn.org

	file: /COGS/internet.resources.earth.sci


Sorry not to have mentioned that, csn.org has a wealth of other things
as well.

	Allan

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Bolt Beranek and Newman,  Incorporated             +1 (617) 873-3398
10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138             USA
From: ivan@rec.msk.su (ivanov oleg petrovich)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: ??E-mail Addresses of Magellan, Trimble and other firms made GPS devices
Keywords: GPS devices, Trimble , Magellan
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:20:24 GMT
Reply-To: ivan@rec.msk.su
Organization: RECOM Association

Hello,

who has any experience in work with GPS devices of TRIMBLE,
MAGELLAN or other firms ?
I want ask some questions about  boards of these firms and
E-mail addresses of these firms are interesting for me.

Mary Christmas,
Thanks in advance,

-- 
Sincerely 
      Oleg Ivanov
RECOM Ltd
Moscow  |||  Email:   ivan@rec.msk.su             Fax: 007 (095) 196 1635
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:07:00 EST
From:         "SCHLESINGER, PETER" <i43_ps02@RED.WHOI.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Internet Resourses

One might change this to: The geographically informed person (seeks to,
better) understands those technologies that facilitate the organization
and use of geographic information. It might be best to qualify this
statement, as well, from a cultural perspective. As a PCV in West Africa
I met many people who were very geographically informed, but they knew
naught about technologies to facilitate organization/use of that
information in other than indigenous manners, such as histories and
folklore. To leave this statement misunderstood would be to set a
standard for a nation based on a single level of advancement or
development; in a sense, this would go on to further perpetuate the
myth that people from developed societies are more informed/advanced
than others.

Peter Schlesinger
The Woods Hole Research Center
i43_ps02@red.whoi.edu
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:48:01 -0500
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Subject:      Unsubscribe GIS-L

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From: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble)
Subject: Re: Convert files from PC ARC/INFO to SUN ARC/INFO or vice versa
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:13:23 GMT

We have had no problem in just moving EXPORT files. Providing that you
select the compression option noted as being for IBM mainframes!
-- 
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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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:16:16 -0500
From:         hoffmann@JURANET.JURIS.DBP.DE
Subject: re: Standards for Geographic Data on CD-ROM????

It would be useful to send some comments on METADATA Standard (Draft) which
has been distributed by USGS.SDTS group for review. I was curious to see if
it will be announced here on GIS-L too...

FH-TUD (temporary at JurIS-host)
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 11:34:47 MST
From:         John Cartwright <johncc@PICEA.CFNR.COLOSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      GIS job opening

Hello all,

I was asked to post the following position announcement:

=========================================
GIS APPLICATIONS ANALYST

Management Assistance Corp. of
America is a high tech group
specializing in providing realistic
solutions to scientific, managerial,
and operational problems through
the application of research,
analysis, computer science,
software engineering and systems
integration.  MACA is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.  We have
an immediate opening for a GIS
Applications Analyst requiring a
BS degree in CS, MIS, Math or
Geography, experience in UNIX,
C, SQL, DBMS using Informix,
and GIS using GRASS.  If
qualified please submit your
resume immediately to:  MACA,
Attn:  Eric Strand, 2629 Redwing
Road, Suite 110, Fort Collins, CO
80526

=========================================

Cheers!
john cartwright
johncc@picea.cfnr.colostate.edu
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Via: uk.ac.liverpool.uxb; Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:22:47 +0000
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:23:21 GMT
From:         "Mr. J. Marsden" <jmarsden@UXB.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Convert files from PC ARC/INFO to SUN ARC/INFO or vice versa

A. Muqtadir did not leave his/her home address so I must appologise to the
list for having to reply to the list.

The way we transfer our files is by runing them through EXPORT then copy
them via ftp to the other machine. if your machines are not connected
then you must copy thrm onto diskettes and physically move them to the
other machine.

John Marsden
URPE-RRL
Dept of Civic Design
University of Liverpool
jmarsden@uxb.liv

> Is there any program or command in ARC/INFO to convert files of PC ARC/INFO
> to SUN ARC/INFO or from SUN to PC.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> A. Muqtadir
> Image Processing Center,
> Research Institute, KFUPM,
> Dhahran. K.S.A.
>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
From: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble)
Subject: What is NCGIA Up To Now??
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:32:16 GMT

While looking through Ed Krol's excellent book THE WHOLE INTERNET:
USER'S GUIDE AND CATALOG I found an interesting entry in the
section on "Formulating a WAIS Search." [WAIS is a distributed text
searching system. Based on key words the server returns a list of
documents/sources that match the query. Each item returned is
scored between 0-1000 based upon a crude measure of how closely it
meets the search criteria.]

The example calls originally for information on

     social work
     education
     parenting

The second item returned (with a score of 625) is found in an index
called:
          ncgia-technical-reports !!

When the search is then narrowed to

     behavior problems in gifted children

WAIS returns, with a score of 1000, a file "90-9.txt" from the
ncgia tech-reports index!

New research areas in GIS??? 



-- 
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: adoyle@BBN.COM (Allan Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Where to find GRASS et. al.
Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:02:52 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: adoyle@BBN.COM (Allan Doyle)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Bill Thoen and others told you where to get GRASS, but Bill modestly
left out the fact that he maintains a great document called

        internet.resources.earth.sci

and he's made it available via anonymous FTP from

        cns.org                 (this is the original source)

It also appears on (thanks to 'archie')
        aun.uninett.no
        sunsite.unc.edu

Anyway, quoting from this document:

"moon.cecer.army.mil           [129.229.1.16]
      In addition to the GRASS GIS source code, there is an extensive
      database for the Spearfish (South Dakota) area to be used with
      grass.  Although intended for GRASS, some of the data could easily
      be used for other purposes.  For example, Arc/Info can display
      GRASS raster data."


Be prepared for a huge amount of stuff and a few hours of compiling/installing.
I got it running but still have not figured out why only I can access
the databases and no one else can, not even me from another machine using
NFS mounts.

        Allan Doyle


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Bolt Beranek and Newman,  Incorporated             +1 (617) 873-3398
10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138             USA
From: westk@ava.bcc.orst.edu (Ken West)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: references on Jourdan arc theorem?
Date: 30 Dec 92 00:51:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Biological Computing Consortium, OSU
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
From: dommarco@acttl5.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: GPS and map-matching algorithms
Keywords: GPS, map-matching
Reply-To: dommarco@acttl5.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:24:45 GMT


	Hi,

	We're involved in an urban transport GPS development here, and
	need some advice on GPS accuracy and methods of correcting 
	positional error on urban road maps.

	Have you come across any software (shareware/product/algorithm)
	that regurarly approximates an approximate position to a position
	on a rodway?

        We would like to implement a cost-effective system using algorithms
	like map-matching.
	
	Any pointers to people, universities, companies would be 
	appreciated.

	Have a good Christmas and an happy New Year!!

	-Rochi


-----------------------
Rochi Febo DOMMARCO
Software Specialist
Digital Equipment Corporation - Rome
E-mail: dommarco@acttl5.enet.dec.com
Phone: 39-6-65592343
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:02:00 EST
From:         nick@IKAROS.HARVARD.EDU
Subject:      re: anybody doing own DCW programming

I'm very interested in your program to extract DCW data. What I would like
to see is something that would extract vector data from a region and theme
of the DCW in some format which could be imported into another GIS (such as
GRASS in my case). Are you planning to distribute your program? What format
will it extract in? What systems does it work with? Thanks in advance --

Nick Cahill
Perseus Project
nick@ikaros.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
From: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble)
Subject: Liability for Spatial Data
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:38:58 GMT


The current (January 1993) issue of the COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
contains an interesting discussion by Pamela Samuelson in the
column "Legally Speaking." The article is entitled "Liability for
Defective Electronic Information" and contains some food for
thought for those active in the GIS arena.

One basic point that is made is that of products that behave like
"machines" vs those that behave like a "book." I should note that
this is a distinction that is drawn within the U.S. legal system;
local views may differ. Courts here have treated books differently
for liability purposes than they have treated machines. Basically,
they have been reluctant to impose liability on authors, publish-
ers, and booksellers for defective information in contained in
books. In contrast, the maker of a defective machine has generally
been considered liable for injury and, under some circumstances,
economic losses caused by the defect. The situation with respect to
electronic information (both data and programs) is much less clear.

She does mention one specific case which may give us cause to
think. In the early 80's there was a case (Aetna Casualty & Surety
Co. vs Jeppsen & Co. -- Jeppsen is a leading publisher of aeronau-
tical charts) in which Aetna persuaded the trial judge that a
defect in the design of a chart had caused a plane to crash. Their
claim was not that the chart contained inaccurate information, but
that it failed in its design goal of graphically representing this
information in a readily understandable way. Here, the product was
treated like a "machine."

For a considerable period of time I have been pointing out the
potential problems (not just legal ones) arising out of the poor or
missing data dictionaries associated with many spatial databases.
Here is yet another reason to (a) clean up our act, and (b) start
thinking about the possible consequences of what we are doing.



-- 
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: joe@solomon.technet.sg (Joseph Doo)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: FAQ
Date: 30 Dec 92 13:40:27 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I'm new to this group. Is there a FAQ? Where can I get it?
From: xor@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Joe Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re:      Internet Resourses
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:56:42 GMT
Organization: The Voice of Fate

In article <GIS-L%92122211005366@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> SWB5108@TAMVENUS.BITNET writes:
>Perhaps this is not the appropriate group to query, however, could someone
>suggest one or two "most excellent" resource guides/books on Internet/Bitnet?

This book is most excellent:

The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog, by Ed Krol.  Published by O'Reilly
and Associates, Inc.  ISBN 1-56592-025-2.  376 pages, softcover, about $25.

This book is also pretty good, but a lot less detailed:

Zen and the Art of the Internet, by Brendan Kehoe.  Published by Prentice
Hall.  ISBN0-13-010778-6.  112 pages, softcover, about $22.
-- 
Joe Schwartz       E-mail: xor@acm.rpi.edu
MapInfo Corp.
200 Broadway       Disclaimer: "Everything I know is wrong."
Troy, NY 12180     Corollary:  "Nothing I say represents MapInfo Corp."
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:46:00 CST
From:         SWB5108@TAMVENUS.BITNET
Subject:      Internet Resourses

Perhaps this is not the appropriate group to query, however, could someone
suggest one or two "most excellent" resource guides/books on Internet/Bitnet?
I am a casual user, but would like to learn more about exploiting the net. I
saw some references yesterday, but deleted the mail without jotting them down.
And I hope it is safe to make this request with so many people away for the
holidays that I will not be inundated with 100 new mail messages each day.
Thanks--
Sarah Bednarz, Texas A&M University

PS:  I am working on the project to develop national standards in geography
for K-12 education.  It might gladden all readers to know that we have
developed the following content-based Performance Standard in the latest
draft:
The geographically informed person understands those technologies that
facilitate the organization and use of geographic information.
What do you think?
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:04:53 -0500
Reply-To:     Geoffrey Wright <jwright@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
From:         Geoffrey Wright <jwright@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
Subject:      CIA World Map

I would like to use one of the CIA World Data Bank II map files that I
have gotten from an FTP site.  I am not sure if it can be imported into
other GIS packages or if it can only be used with VPlot.  The file
appears in the following format:

^B^@w \212\313^C^@s^A^@^@\224(^@^@^Z
^@^@\374\377\377\377^C^@^@^@\326u^B^@g
^B^@\326u^B^@\261a^A^@
\275^A^@\212\276>^@\336^C^@^@\375\364\365\357\366\360\3\
65\357\366\360\363\362\365\360\361\361\367\360\363\363\366\357\362\362\366\360\\
363\362\363\362\362\362\363\362\363\362\360\365\363\362\360\365\360\364\355\367\
\355\367\352\372\350\374\350\374\347\371\360\367\352\371\355\375\356F\347\377\3\
60\367\362\362\364\357\372\356\366\360\365\357\371\356\365\357\366\360\365\360\\

Does this mean that it is a compressed binary file?  What do I have to do
to use it??  Thank you for any assistance.

============================================================
Jed Wright
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
New Haven, CT
=============================================================
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:49:49 EST
From:         Mutahar Hickey <mhick@BSU-CS.BSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Information about Smallworld

M:  The customisation issue we have addressed by developing the whole system
M:in an object-oriented language.  We wrote our own language called
M:Smallworld Magik for this, because we felt that all the commercially
M:available languages had shortcomings for what we wanted to do.  This is
M:closer to Smalltalk than C++ in flavour.  We fully support multiple
M:inheritance, polymorphism, dependencies etc.  The vast majority of the
M:GIS code which we supply is written in Magik, and the customer can extend
M:and customise the system in Magik.

M:database is completely continuous with no partitions, so we don't have
M:to worry about edge matching, which is often a significant cost in
M:data capture.

M:spatial indexing built in at a deep level to give us good performance.

M:=======================================================================
M:* Peter Batty
M:* Smallworld Systems, Burleigh House, 13-15 Newmarket Road
M:* Cambridge CB5 8EG, England
M:* Tel +44-223-460199, Fax +44-223-460210
M:* Email Peter.Batty@Smallworld.co.uk
M:=======================================================================
M:
I tried to send an e-mail message to Peter, but I believe that it did not
go through.  I am interested in further information about the above
sections I have taken out of his document.  When I finger his address I
get that it is not operating.
        I hope that he can pick this up when he reads GIS-L
                Thank you and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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                                Mutahar

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From: ds_pi@ac.nsac.ns.ca
Subject: Problems encountered using ARC/INFO v 5.02 on a VAX
Reply-To: ds_pi@ac.nsac.ns.ca
Organization: Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:59:08 GMT

At our site we are using ARC/INFO v.5.02 on a VAX system.  I would like to 
contact others who are using the same software version on a VAX, and
they additionally use the LIBRARIAN utility.  We have come across some 
instances where data has appeared to become scrambled and we would like to 
know if others have experienced this (or if it is a problem that was caused
by the user).  I think it has something to do with the label -id being used
already in the tile, but am not sure.   Please email me at DS_PI@NSAC.NS.CA
Thanks

Daniel Swim
Nova Scotia Dept. of Agriculture and Marketing
Plant Industry Branch
Truro, N.S., Canada

DS_PI@NSAC.NS.CA