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From: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Duane F Marble)
Subject: Re: gis reading lists
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:23:34 GMT

TRIED TO REPLY DIRECTLY BUT THE ADDRESS BOUNCED.

To: brown@larix
Subject: Re: gis reading lists
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Organization: The Ohio State University
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I have a reading list for my course on GIS Design and Implementation.
Students are required to write several, long critical reviews of items
they select from this list. Students in my current GIS Input Systems
course are compiling a bibliography of relevant material from the last
three years. I have a reading list of the older stuff. Happy to make
any of this available. The new stuff will be in the standard, abstracted
format used by the GIS Master Bibliography.
-- 
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
-- 
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
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
From: ztjm05@hou.amoco.com (Thomas Misek)
Subject: Re: GIS in elections
Reply-To: ztjm05@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:14:25 GMT

In article AA05854@genesis.grebyn.com, karl@GREBYN.COM ((Karl A. Nyberg)) writes:

>OK, the elections are over and we know who won.  Can anybody talk about use
>of GIS in the elections, such as for strategy and such?  I was surprised to
>not hear a PEEP out of this newsgroup when I saw the US Maps that the major
>networks had, and how they would fill a state's color in according to which
>candidate was projected to win that state's electoral votes.  Does anybody
>know if those were incredibly special-purpose systems?
>
>-- Karl --

There were two questions in this note. I would like to hear more about the "such as for 
strategy and such?" part.  To me, this means that GIS could be used to find  the 
people  with the demographics that would support "my" candidate and thereby the 
places to send the workers.  Please don't limit the usage to the presidential election, 
there were quite a few other offices up for election.

I want to thank the two people from U. of Wash. that gave us that wonderful description
of the choropleth mapping process.  

-----
Thomas J. Misek             | E-mail ==> tjmisek@hou.amoco.com
Amoco Production Co. | X.400  ==> mhs!amoco!thomas_j_misek@attmail.com
P.O. Box 3093                 | Phone  ==> (713) 556-3514
Houston, TX 77253        | FAX    ==> (713) 584-7565
From: panda@syrinx.umd.edu (Lisa Nyman)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: GIS in elections
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:09:44 GMT

In article <4323@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> ymzhang@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Mike Zhang) writes:
>In article <9211061942.AA05854@genesis.grebyn.com> karl@GREBYN.COM ((Karl A. Nyberg)) writes:
>>OK, the elections are over and we know who won.  Can anybody talk about use
>>of GIS in the elections, such as for strategy and such?  
>
>	In almost every state, there is a redistricting process. Right now
>some states use Census Tiger ( geographic data ) and population data to do
>the redistricting. 


Having recently finished months of work on editing software and 
page configuration for a congressional district atlas, 
I *cringed* when ABC showed the minority districts in
Chicago and Houston (two cartographic nightmares).
-- 
Lisa Wolfisch Nyman              "Life is too short to wear ugly underwear."
panda@syrinx.umd.edu       send email for a copy of the gis FAQ, ask nicely!
** Geographers: the original Space Cadets. To know one is to love one.
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:56:23 -0500
              <GIS-L@UBVM.BITNET>
From:         hoffmann@URZDFN.KARTOGRAPHIE.TU-DRESDEN.DBP.DE
Subject:      RE: CPGIS-L

Yes, Frans, you have overseen the Chinese GIS initiative this summer.
CPGIS-L is for Chinese GIS Professionals around the World... but at the
moment very busy with voting, election, presidency etc.
---
But I used this registration message to answer the question how to
subscribe etc. for GIS-L... I am very often surprised about this kind
of listserver FAQ from different sites.
---
BTW, did you hear about German speaking ACDGIS-L ?
It comes from <awiimc12> listserver!

FH-TUD
From: gt4417a@prism.gatech.EDU (SKELTON,JOEL PHILLIP)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: Recommendations on Color Printer/Plotters (output 22x27") for Erdas
Keywords: Large format printer/plotters
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:58:48 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <BxHEnH.Du1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> youngs@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Doug Youngs) writes:
>Any recommendations on printer/plotters, capable of 22x27" output at a 
>minimum of 300dpi for Erdas hardcopy ?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>D. Youngs


You'd have to be more specific. What version of erdas? How much
money do you have to spend? 

Under 7.5 (unix platforms) I think erdas supports the Versatec 
electrostatic printer and the Calcomp electrostatic printer with
the Versatec interface. Both of these options are in the > $20k
range (possibly by quite a bit). The company that makes the stork
printer has written a driver that prints erdas format files from
a pc. (At least I've seen that setup, haven't used it)

If you have or are going to get Imagine (basically Erdas 8.0) you 
can use the above printers and the IRIS which is  a pain in the butt
to use (tape the single sheets to the drum) but produces really
beautiful poster quality prints. 

Your best bet would be to call the erdas user support number (which
I don't have) or the main office number (404)248-9000 and ask for
one of the sales droids. They should know alot more than me about
this stuff.


jps
bf
 
-- 
Joel Skelton   --    North Avenue Trade School, Dept. of Round Things
gt4417a@prism.gatech.edu   (ask for Scooter Technologies, and receive)
From: arlie@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Arlie Haig)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: User Interfaces
Date: 5 Nov 92 01:37:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpsad.56480003
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA

If you were to offer such a course, please let me know--I WILL BE THE 
FIRST TO ENROLL.  Though I have yet to get the basics.  I know there
is a great market for this type of service, as yet undeveloped.

Arlie Haig
arlie@hpsade2.sad.hp.com
Hewlett Packard
Sonoma County, CA
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:12:55 -0800
              <GIS-L@UBVM.BITNET>
From:         "(Mondher)" <mondher@MODEL.SAIC.COM>
Subject:      FORTRAN compiler for PC?

I haven't used a FORTRAN compiler on PC for about 4 years.
Now I need to use one again. Could anyone give a comparison between
available compilers for 16 or 32 bit machines or direct me to a
reference.

Thanx in advance,
Mondher Chehata.
mondher@model.saic.com
From: chungr@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Brit Ordinance Survey coors
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:38:46 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I am working on a GIS application involving some antiquity sites in Israel.
Does anyone know how to transform the British Orinance Survey grid system for
Palestine to Longitude/Latitude?

I have looked in the Israel Atlas and am unable to find information specific
enough.


Roy Chung
chungr@uni.edu
Dept. of Geography
University of Northern Iowa
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:22:19 BRA
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From:         Jorge Xavier da Silva <IGG04001@UFRJ.BITNET>
Subject:      GIS and dengue

Does any member of this discussion list has the BITNET address of the
following institutions?
  - World Health Organization;
  - Center for Disease Control;
  - State of Washington's Health Department.
We are still seeking info about epidemiology and GIS, particularly "dengue".

    Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:16:01 LCL
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From:         "A.R.HOLMES" <P03302@PRIME-A.PLYMOUTH.AC.UK>
Subject:      Using a GIS in a study of SOil Erosion

      Adrian Holmes,
      Department of Geographical Sciences,
      Room 708, Davy Building,
      University of Plymouth,
      Plymouth,
      PL4 8AA


      E-Mail: A.R.HOLMES@UK.AC.PLYMOUTH.PRIME-A

Tel. (+44) (0)752 233074  Fax: (+44) (0)752 233054
Andy,
I suspect you may have had numberous responses so far but just in case
everyone presumes the same our UK discussion list is chest-arc-info. To
subscribe send a one line message containing only the following:

Subscribe chest-arc-info Andy Bouffard



The above message should be mailed to: mailbase@mailbase.uk.ac

Whilst I hope I have grabbed your attention can you tell me if it is
possible to run pc Arc/info over a network? If so how do you  do it?
 If not, do esri envisage making it networkable?


Regards
Adrian Holmes (User Support, Geographical Sciences)
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Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:14:52 EST
From: Carla Chichizola <CC1842A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Imaging

I am currently working on a project concerning imaging, and would like to get s
ome more information about the subject.  Do any of you know any good books or o
ther litterature about the subject?  I would also like comments on how to appro
ach the entire subject.


                                               Thank You

                                                   Carla/
From: HK3599A@auvm.american.edu (Hussain M. Kanaan)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: RE: AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS CAREER
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:56:33 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center

HI, I AM A GRADUATE STUDENT AT AU. I AM MAJORING IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS. THIS
IS MY FIRST SEMESTER IN THIS FIELD OF STUDY. I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE YOUR
EXPERIENCE BY ASKING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1- WILL SYSTEMS ANALYSTS BE INVOLVED IN THE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY NEEDED TO
   SUPPORT INFORMATIONS SYSTEMS?   OR
2- DO I NEED THE KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO BECOME AN EFFECTIVE
   SYSTEMS ANALYSTS?.
3- DO INFORMATION SYSTEMS REALLY HANDLE INFORMATION?

                                ANY RESPONSE WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED...
                                             THANK YOU
                                              KANAAN
From: mark3@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: mail/news filters, defining relevance and categorisation
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:02:13 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
Return-Path: <mark3@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.5

Folks,

I'm working on defining relevance in Information Retrieval, currently
looking at defining filters for news or mail message categories, and would
like to get in contact with others who are also working in these areas. I'd
be pleased to exchange views and information with anyone who's interested. 

Any information about available news or mail filtering systems would be
welcome. Specifically, does anyone know where I can get information about
ISCREEN, Topic and Individual Inc.? Anyone know where Stephen Pollock is
(creator of ISCREEN)?

Thanks, Mark
______________________________________________________________
Mark Magennis   	       	       	email: mark3@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
Dept. of Computing Science     or try: mark3@uk.ac.glasgow.dcs
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK.    	       	       	  tel: No phone, ho hum!
______________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
From: adye@boi.hp.com (Alan Dye)
Subject: Re: internships
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:06:46 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
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David Garrett (DG1097A@auvm.american.edu) wrote:
: ----I am an IS student in need of advice re:internships. 
: 

Hi,

I graduated in May from Idaho State University.  During my Junior year, I
interned with Microsoft Corp in Seattle.  

About internships:

I consider it a must.  Find a bigname company if at all possible, Novell,
Microsoft, Lotus, WordPerfect, IBM, HP, DEC, etc...  The bigger the company,
the more internships, and the more seriously you will be considered for
employment when you graduate...

A lot of companies have summer internships, but some require a semester
or more, (Microsoft is 9-months.)  Additionally, the federal government
has internships as well, with it's various branches, (if you can stomach 
working for the IRS, CIA, FBI, etc...)

When to Intern:

As near as I could figure, most like to have you intern sometime in your
junior or senior year.  I'd recommend junior year if at all possible, as
this gives you an opportunity to change your major if you find that a
specific job is not for you.  I found that the 'real world' was nothing
like the 'ivory tower' and consequently decided to stay in my major instead
of changing disciplines.  I can thank my internship with MS for that.

What you will learn:

Office Politics, Long hours, and most importantly, the exciting technical
things they gloss over in class, since they tend to think that theory
is more important than current technical developments.

What to do with it:

Flaunt it when you go to interview.  I believe the reason I am working here
at Hewlett-Packard is because of the fact that I had interned, and had 
good grades, where most of my peers at school had no practical experience.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Alan W. Dye   PHONE: (208) 323-6176        adye%hpdmd48.boi@hp.com
                FAX: (208) 323-6344        71053,1301@compuserve.com
    
Software Applications Specialist           "Cleverness is its own reward."
Hewlett Packard Boise Site Operations  
Information Systems Group                  #include <disclaim.h>
From: DG1097A@auvm.american.edu (David Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Re: internships
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:55:39 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center

Thanks for the reply. Does anyone know which companies would offer internships
which would give a student exposure to systems anaylsis and design?  More
specifically, i'm interested in working with users (doing needs analysis, etc.)
Is it a better idea to start at a campus career center or to contact specific
companies directly?
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:11:57 EST
From: Hugh P. Obrien <HO3545A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: The use of groupware in team devolpment

    I am very interested in how groupware can aid in team development.  It
appears that when a team forms there is a lag time before the team becomes
productive.  Is there any way that groupware can shorten this lag time?
Any response would be appreciated.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:04:36 EST
From: Carla Chichizola <CC1842A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: programming courses

Hi! I am a business major and I am currently in an MIS program. I have no techn
ical background and I've only taken one course in programming. Do you think I s
hould concentrate my efforts in learning technical stuff and take technical cou
rses or do you think I can still be a competent MIS professional without being
that technical?

                                  Carla/
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:53:53 EST
From: Mary Yeatras <MY9646A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: re: making an info systems career choice

Do you agree that the process of  communication is taken for granted.  Good
communication is a skill that requires a certain amount of training in order to
fully understand its concepts.  Also since teamwork is on the rise in many
organizations,  there should be more training in     group processes and
collaboration techniques.  These will be things that I.S. people will work with
 everyday.  Don't you think they should be given more time?
                                                   Mary
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:57:12 EST
From: Hussain M. Kanaan <HK3599A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject:    an information career

Hi,
   I am a graduate student at the AU, this is the first semester for me at this
   field studies. I would be happy if you let me share your experience with the
   following questions:
   1. Does Systems Analysts have to involved in the computer technology needed
      to support information systems?.
   2. Do I need the aknowledge of computer technology to become an effective
      Systems Analysts?.
   3. Do information systems really handle information?.

                  Any response will be appreciated...........
                                                   THANKS
                                                  H. KANAAN
=========================================================================
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:31:50 EST
From: Hussain M. Kanaan <HK3599A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject:    an information systems career
hi,
  i am a graduate student at au and my major in information systems. this is my
  first semester at this field of study. I WOULD BE GREADFUL IF YOU SHARE WITH
  ME YOUR EXPERIENCE AND OPINION BY ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
  1. does systems analysts will be involved in the computer technology needed
     to support information systems?.
  2. do i need the acknowledge of computer technology to become an effective
     system analysts?.
  3. do information systems really handle information?.
                     any response will be appreciated......
                                thank you
                                             kanaan
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
From: ramirez@IASTATE.EDU (Richard G Ramirez)
Subject: re: making an info systems career choice
Reply-To: ramirez@IASTATE.EDU (Richard G Ramirez)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:25:26 GMT

Communication skills and theory are often taught
by departments other than MIS.  At ISU, we even allow
them to be electives.

More importantly, the way in which some classes are
taught reinforces those concepts.  Some of our classes
have stronmg requirements for team presentations and
team writing and development.  As our labs catch up
with the 1990's, more team-oriented work will be done
using groupware CASE and database tools.

We see communication as something that is required all
the time rather than a separate course.  I do grade
my students' reports on "beauty" and presentation as
well as on content.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: Mathew L. Spolin <mspolin@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
Subject: REQUEST:  List of sources for Mac WAIStation
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A724B01AF4029637@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:17:30 GMT
Organization: Cybervision Productions
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:13:41 GMT

Sorry if this a FAQ, but could someone send me a list of more sources to
use with the Macintosh WAIStation other than think.com?

Thanks,
---Matt Spolin
   Washington DC
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu (Paul Jones)
Subject: swais, ftp_swais, and OpenLook wais
Reply-To: pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu (Paul Jones)
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:46:39 GMT


We've made a number of changes to the good work that John Curran, Archie
Warnock, and Jim Fullton have put into the swais client including:
More status reporting for that fuzzy warm feeling.
Improved relevency feedback
Special client for ftp servers that includes a new command G for go to the
directory in which the file (usually a readme or index) resides and show
the contents there.
Increased security of secure swais to turn off Save and Mail (based on our
experience offering anonymous and open swais access).
These changes can now be found on SunSITE.unc.edu in
pub/wais/wais-8-unc5.tar.Z
A help file for ftp_swais is in pub/wais/ftp.wais.readme
A general swais help file is on pub/wais/how.to.swais
A version of the ftp server can be found in pub/wais/wais-8-b4-ftp.tar.Z

Jim Fullton and folks from Sun have developed a true OpenLook wais client
(based on the b3 code) that allows full interaction with the OpenLook
environment (as seen at Educom). This is not Xwais running within an
OpenLook window, but for real OpenLook. It can be found in
pub/wais/openlook-wais.tar.Z

Sun folks can retrieve already compiled and executable versions of swais, 
and ftp_swais as pub/wais/sun-swais.tar.Z A helpful readme is in
pub/wais/sun-swais.readme

We have submitted our changes to swais for inclusion in the next general
release of wais.

Coming soon Z39.50-1992 compliant WAIS (ask Simon Spero about this).
--
==============================================
       Paul Jones
       Office FOR Information Technology
       University of North Carolina
       Chapel Hill, NC
       Paul_Jones@unc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: lindner@danzig.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
Subject: Re: Boolean, literal and other biology data mods to WAIS 8b5 available
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:08:41 GMT

In <BxGKu8.I19@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes:


>I've mostly finished adding boolean operators 'and' and 'not', 
>partial words, literal phrases, symbol matching and extended results
>retrieval to WAIS source.  

>These modifications can now be picked up via ftp or gopher to 
>ftp.bio.indiana.edu. Look in folder IUBio Software+Data/util/wais  
>for iubio-wais-8b5.tar.Z (full source) or iubio-wais-8b5.patch for 
>a difference or patch file.  Internet Gopher users: you will want
>to pick up the file /util/gopher/iubio-gopher-v1.patch to properly
>use the biology data modifications to wais.

Gopher Users:  I will have these mods in 1.1 (and in the next 1.1 beta
release 1.1b2)  

It's really cool to have booleans and wais.  Don gets the gopher
software seal of approval from me :-)
--
 | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu   | Slipping into madness
 |              | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake
 | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota         | of comparision.
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: sh0001@israel (Scott Hansohn)
Subject: FAQ?
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:13:38 GMT

I learned a bit about WAIS in a recent MacWeek article.

It was awfully short on details.

How do I learn more?  Is there an FAQ for this newsgroup?

Thanks,

--s

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