HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:23:00 PST
From:         "Virginia Hetrick, in sunny Calif" <IARGRAF@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      Matt's students' problems

I am absolutely amazed that they didn't blame more things on hardware
(or software) gone bad!  The third one looks like a starting point for
somebody who wants to improve on GIS software interfaces.  The fourth
one looks like a variation on a theme of #1.

As for the appropriate data problem, maybe the GIS community could
do a couple of things:

1.  Define some standard datasets (like the ones for the GIS Challenge)
    which could be made available by FTP from someplace (NCGIA, maybe??)

2.  Define the specifications for some rather standard datasets, for
    example, the spatial information plus the specification of some
    small subset of census, weather, or other data, again available by
    FTP from someplace (NCGIA, maybe??)

3.  Define the way in which to get the small subset from #2 above as
    a cookbook kind of process.

From my teaching experience, I've found that, if you give students the
entire world to choose from, they'll spend most of the time exploring
the world and not doing their project.  However, if you give them a
fairly well-defined subset and allow people who have specific ideas to
go out on their own, you'll have a little better result without giving
the students too many hassles.  This also is a little more like the
real world where somebody comes to you with a problem to be solved.
It's very rare that ANYBODY gets to choose from the entire world once
they've graduated!

If somebody takes on the project to define some standard datasets,
I have two I'd be willing to contribute.  The first is the set of
satellite images for last February's storms which hit the LA Basin.
The second is a set which I used for the Specialist 7 meeting and which
contains LONG temperature and precipitation records for weather stations
at LAX, LA Civic Center, Santa Monica, UCLA, Burbank, and Pasadena.

virginia
From: DWONG@UCONNVM.BITNET (David)
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Subject: Re: TIGER DISPLAY PROGRAM??
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:40:28 GMT
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              7 Jan 1993 11:31:07 EST from <pjones@NEON.MITRE.OR G>

On Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:31:07 EST Patrick L. Jones said:
>Howdy,
>
>        Does anybody out in net land know where I can get a public
>domain program that will read TIGER line files and display them on
>a PC with EGA/VGA.
>
I assume that you just want display with no data manipulation or analysis.
Then 'TINYTIGER', a program in BASIC written by Fred Broome in the Bureau
of Census, may suit your need. I think the program has no copywrite and
in the past several years of AAG meeting, Fred distributed the disk to
workshop participants. I am sure many netters had attended these workshops
and can correct my info. if it is wrong.
>
>                                                Thanx
>
>
>                                                Pat Jones
>                                                plj@mitre.org
David Wong
U.Connecticut
From: RSIU42A@SAUPM00.BITNET (Trevor D. Rotzien)
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Subject: David Coleman's email address?
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:28:34 GMT
Organization: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, S.A.
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Happy New Year!

David told me that he has finished at U of Tasmania and has joined
U of New Brunswick. Can he or anyone else tell me his new email address?

Are any list members besides myself attending the International Conference
on GIS in Doha, Qatar during January 16th to 18th?

Regards,

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k.f.u.p.m. box 118        water resources & environment division
dhahran 31261             the research institute
saudi arabia              king fahd university of petroleum & minerals

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From: aargyle@sobeco.com (a.argyle)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: what exactly is a DEM?
Keywords: DEM, mapping, gis
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:36:11 GMT
Distribution: comp.infosystems.gis
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young


I have been using a dos program called vistapro. It takes a DEM file and producing a startlingly pretty view of the area. I know that DEM stands for Digital Elevation Model but what exacvtly is it. I hve examed the vistapro DEM's and it appears that they use some type of compression. I would like to know how they are made so that I can write a simple program to make my own and then view them with vistapro. Can anyone out thewre help me?

            

                 -Godot is my co-pilot-
From: wbarr@bma.jeslacs.wimsey.bc.ca (William Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Vancouver GIS Conference '93
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:23:38 PST
Organization: Barr, McCormick & Assoc.

Hi All,

Would someone out there, in netland, who happens to know anything about
the GIS conference in Vancouver, B.C. please post/mail information
about it?

Dates?
Seminar schedule?
Contact person and phone#?
Registration form?

Anything at all!

Many thanks, in advance.


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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:00:50 -0500
From:         RALENT@AMHERST.BITNET
Subject:      Not a gis question, but . . .

I have a problem that affects my ability to do gis for long periods of time.
My pc monitor (color VGA) emits a high-pitched whine that is driving me
crazy.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to fix this?

Thanks.
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From: lau@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Laurie Vandiford)
Subject: LANDTRAK GIS ???
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:48:57 GMT

does anyone remember LANDTRAK, a GIS used by police/fire departments and
school systems.  anyone ever heard or or use it?  it was created by a 
called GEOBASED SYSTEMS out of Raleigh, NC.  Whatever happened to GBS?
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From:         "Patrick L. Jones" <pjones@NEON.MITRE.ORG>
Subject:      TIGER DISPLAY PROGRAM??

Howdy,

        Does anybody out in net land know where I can get a public
domain program that will read TIGER line files and display them on
a PC with EGA/VGA.


                                                Thanx


                                                Pat Jones
                                                plj@mitre.org
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Subject:      "guide to postgrad courses in GIS"

+in GIS ??
+
+...i seem to recall a general course guide put together by Towson State (?)
+...any help appreciated
+
Indeed, I was hopefully too, when sometime ago from TOWSON came the info-reques
t
letter to make such an overview... but, unfortunately, nothing returned to
the contributors. I remember, DJB (Cork) sometimes asked already on GIS-L
about the GIS-GUIDE compiled at Towson State.
The sourcebook should exist!?
FH-TUD
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From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: Re:      Contouring
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:34:09 GMT

In article <01GT5YV4A5NK000QLD@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE>, STGG8004@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE writes:

|> "Contouring. A guide to the analysis and display of spatial data" by David
|> F. Watson. (Computer Methods in the Geosciences series, Volume 10). 340pp,
|> ISBN 0 08 040286 0 (Hardback), price 59.00 UK Pounds, US$120.00
|> 
|> The blurb states that the book is written with the PC user in mind. All
|> aspects of contouring 3-d data are considered, and the book is written
|> for the novice as well as the experienced user. Accompanying the book is
|> a series of BASIC programs in ASCII format, on a MS-DOS floppy, which
|> implement 18 interpolation methods, 5 gradient estimation techniques and
|> 7 types of display.


|> Not cheap, but sounds as if it could be useful for teaching. I wonder whether
|> a paperback edition is planned?

I am preparing a review of this book now and will submit it to
"Geo Info Systems." It does seem to be a good introductory book on techniques 
and may make a good 3 week unit for an advanced GIS course, but it's not quite 
all that I expected.

|> Darius Bartlett

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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:05:00 CDT
From:         VONMEYER <VONMEYER@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      coordinate conversions in GRASS

Hi
does anybody know whether you can have a user defined ellipsoid in
GRASS and then build a map space, i think they call it a map space in
GRASS, but a projection on that user defined ellipsoid.
any help on the commands would also be appreciated.

thanks

nancy von meyer
vonmeyer@vms.macc.wisc.edu   or vonmeyer@wiscmacc.bitnet
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:21:52 -0800
From:         Rushdi Ariss <rariss@WX.GTEGSC.COM>
Subject: Re: digital weather?

        Dear M. Killion,

        I've used a CD-ROM based weather program called (I believe) World
Weather.  The latest version may contain the info which you are requiring.
 Also,
the national climatic data center, in Ashvill, NC, is producing ( ;)  )
a CD-ROM with the summaries you spoke of in digital form.  You may want to
 contact them.

        As for the World Weather CD-ROM, try contacting:
        Mr. Robert Provin
        Dept. of Geography
        Cal. State University, Northridge
        rprovin@vax.csun.edu

        Inform him that I refered you to him and that the World Weather CD-ROM
is located in the schools Map Library.  He can provide you with the info on
who and how you can get it.

        All the Best,

        Rushdi A. Ariss
        GTE Government Systems
        rariss@wx.gtegsc.com

        All comments/ideas may not refect those of my employer.
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:25:39 -0500
From:         Jay Morgan <E7G4MOR@TOWSONVX.BITNET>
Subject:      IDRISI-L

The following is the correct procedure for subscribing to IDRISI-L ... send
a one line message (SUBSCRIBE IDRISI-L) to MAILSERV@TOWSONVX.  For some un-
known reason, our VAX cluster does not run the  LISTSERV  software.  Please
contact me if you have any other questions about IDRISI-L.

Jay Morgan
Department of Geography and Environmental Planning
Towson State University
Baltimore, Maryland 21204-7097
(410) 830-2964
(410) 830-3482 (FAX)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:30:00 GMT
From:         STGG8004@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject:      Re: "guide to postgrad courses in GIS"

>Indeed, I was hopefully too, when sometime ago from TOWSON came the info-reques
> t
> letter to make such an overview... but, unfortunately, nothing returned to
> the contributors. I remember, DJB (Cork) sometimes asked already on GIS-L
> about the GIS-GUIDE compiled at Towson State.
> The sourcebook should exist!?
> FH-TUD
>

You're right, Frank - I have heard nothing either. Memory plays tricks, but
I also vaguely remember that when the requests for contributions was sent
out to us would-be contributors, there was also a carrot dangled in front
of our noses, in the form of an offer of a free subscription to some GIS
magazine (Geo Info Systems I think?). I am still waiting for mine :-)

(Talking of which, is there any SORSA member out there in netland who can
tell me when our "special mailing"  of IJGIS is normally shipped out?)

Darius Bartlett
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From: R.L.Sanson@massey.ac.nz (R.L. Sanson)
Subject: Re: Environmental Racism
Summary: Re: Environmental racism
Keywords: massey
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 20:29:14 GMT

Re: Environmental racism

A colleague of mine has used a GIS (Arc/Info) in a case-control study
of breakdowns to bovine tuberculosis, where distances of farms in the 
study to the nearest known possum endemic area was one of the study variables.
Arc/Info has a function that can compute the distances from all points in a 
coverage to the nearest arc or point in another coverage.

Another technique would be to take a coverage of all toxic waste sites, and 
overlay it over the various layers representing the factors you are interested
in. You could then find out the presence or otherwise of the various factors
at each toxic dump site. For a control data set, you could create a random 
number of control points (non-toxic sites) and repeat the process. Walker and 
Moore, Int. Journal of Geographical Information Systems (1988), 2(4), 347-363
discuss the use of classification and regression tree techniques in 
inducing the factors that influence the distribution of eastern grey kangaroos.

Regards,

Robert Sanson				Dept. Veterinary Clinical Sciences
R.L.Sanson@massey.ac.nz			Massey University, New Zealand
"Righteousness and peace kiss each other." Ps.85v10.
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From:         "Eleazer D. Hunt- IRRI" <E.HUNT@CGNET.COM>
Subject:      Does Atlas Draw "talk" to GRASS or Pmap?

I have an outreach site that asks the question 'Does Atlas Draw talk to
GRASS or Pmap?'  What they are asking is if Atlas Draw exports to GRASS or
can GRASS read an Atlas .BNA export file?
Any ideas/comments
Thanks
Hunt at IRRI
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:15:17 -0500
From:         00mtklein@BSUVAX1.BITNET
Subject:      Environmental Racism

        I'm fairly new on this board but I thought that I would plow ahead
and ask a question of the myriad of esteemed readers of this message.  I am
a graduate student at Ball State Univ. in Indiana working on my master's
degree in Natural Resources.  I am planning on pursuing a thesis on
the ever-present theme of environmental racism.  My focus (or sample for you
scientists) will be on the entire state of Indiana.  I will be using several
(6 or more) variables so that I can determine a relationship between all or
some of the variables and the siting of solid or hazardous waste landfills
or incinerators.  Somehow, as an independent variable, I will incorporate
"distance from the site" as a factor as well.
        My question is: (1) does anyone know to what extent my research can
be facilitated by GIS? (I am not proficient in the trade) and (2) does
anyone know of any research that has been done before on this subject that
might be able to guide my work?
                                        Thank You,
                                                Matthew T. Klein
                                                Ball State Univ.
                                                Dept. of Natural Resources
                                                Muncie, IN  47306
                                                00mtklein@bsuvax1.bitnet
                                                00mtklein@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
From: boss@geovax.ed.ac.uk (Bruce Gittings)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: David Coleman's email address?
Date: 6 Jan 93 02:20:43 GMT
Organization: University of Edinburgh, Geography Department.

In article <930105.125222.SAT.RSIU42A@SAUPM00.BITNET>, RSIU42A@SAUPM00.BITNET (Trevor D. Rotzien) writes:

> David told me that he has finished at U of Tasmania and has joined
> U of New Brunswick. Can he or anyone else tell me his new email address?
> 
Trevor,

Dave's new address is:  DCOLEMAN@CA.UNB.CSD.JUPITER   (or vice versa)

Regards,

Bruce.
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From: aa0fm@vexcel.com (Zach)
Subject: Integrating raster images and GIS...
Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder, CO
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:14:29 GMT


I am currently designing a system that will (hopefully) integrate
multi-source imagery into a GIS (Arc/INFO). The system will do
change detection based upon preprocessing the images to suit the
needs of the change detection algorithms. I am wondering if anyone
has integrated images into a GIS in a similar way.  Also,
I would like to know if anyone has had experience using the image
catalog (librarian?) capability in Arc/INFO. Of course, you
can just use a DBMS without the spatial capabilities of a GIS.
The motivation for using a GIS is to have a neat way to keep track 
of the imagery and change products, many of which will be vector 
data. Thanks

Zach - email: aa0fm@vexcel.com
Boulder, CO
From: peterl@cac.washington.edu (Peter Loron )
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Subject: Help with Lamont GB
Keywords: GB
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:49:36 GMT
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I need some help getting the Lamont Graphical Databse Browser set up on a
DEC 3100. Can anyone out there lend a hand? Thanks.

-Peter Loron
 peterl@u.washington.edu
 Oceanography


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From: bill@AEC.MsState.Edu (bill balcerzak)
Subject: internet address of Birkbeck College Geography Dept.
Organization: Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural Economics:  Geographic Information Systems
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:15:39 GMT

Does anyone know how I can get in touch with the Geography Department at
Birkbeck College (University of London) via internet?  I'm specifically
looking for Dr. Jonathon Raper to ask about their Phd program.

Cheers,

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From:         "R. Douglas Ramsey" <doug@SHEMP.NR.USU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Incident 123.1107

 Whomever can help!!!

        I am running ARC 6.1 on a Sun Sparc equipped with a RasterOps
24 bit card.  The entry I use to load Openwin 3.0 is as follows:

        openwin -dev /dev/cgeight0 defdepth 24 directvis

        When I use this command, I can run everything in Arc except for the
canvas screen.  The screen background is white and will not show data.  This
is even true when I change the linesymbol to another color, the data will not
show.
        If I start Openwindows as shown above but leave out the directvis
option, I can get a black canvas, but my other third party software will not
run.  Further, under the directvis option, I cannot run ArcView at all.
For ArcView I get the following message:

ERROR           Cannot determine which window manager is running (ambiguity),
 please set the OIT_WMGR variable (see installation guide for details).
while           Initializing windowing environment
EXITING         cannot recover from error

        The installation manual for ArcView was not helpfull!

        Can anyone tell me if I can get around this, or at least what the
problem is.

Regards,
Doug Ramsey
Utah State University
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