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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:43:52 CST
From:         Ann Janda <ajanda@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>
Subject:      GIS systems survey

     Here at Northwestern University we are investigating the
possibility of creating a learning laboratory exclusively dedicated
to the multidisciplinary use of Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) in an academic library setting. In order to effectively plan
for such a project, we would be very interested in hearing from
libraries and individuals who would be willing to share their
experiences in offering such services to library patrons.
Specifically, we would be interested in learning:

1.   Presently, how many and what type of workstations are you
     utilizing to provide GIS capability?

2.   What type of GIS software have you selected?


3.   What departments on campus have been involved in developing
     and maintaining GIS services? Can you describe the
     Library's role in the establishment and maintenance of such a
     service, particularly with regard to staffing.


4.   Who are the primary users of the system (faculty, students,
     from what disciplines)? Do you find that users use the system:

     a.   on an on-going basis?

     b.   from time-to-time

     c.   for one-time projects?


5.   What have been the expectations from users and to what extent
     have those expectations been met?


6.   What have been the greatest challenges to establishing and
     maintaining such a service and how have they been overcome?


7.   In you were to do it over again, what would you do
     differently?

     Thank you for your assistance with this project. I hope the
survey is not too foreboding. Please respond directly to me and if
there is interest among other readers of this list, I will be glad
to summarize my findings.

Sincerely,

Herb Somers
Head, Government Publications and Map Department
Northwestern University Library
Evanston IL, 60208-2300
VOICE: (708)-491-2899
EMAIL: SOMERS@NUACVM.bitnet
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Government Publications & Map Dept.       Phone:  708/491-4090
Northwestern University Library           Fax:  708/491-8306
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:25:35 CST
From:         Mike Killion <KILLION@UKANVM.BITNET>
Subject:      digital weather?

Hello,  I'm working on a project that requires weather  data for the state of T
exas.  Specifically, I need to be able to calculate how many days each year the
 temperature was over a certain temperature and how  many precipitation events
there were each year.  I need data from about 1957 to 1987, preferably for at l
east one station per county.  This info is available in the climatological summ
aries put out by NOAA, but I would like to avoid compling it manually.  Does an
yone know if such data is available in some kind of digital format, and what th
e cost might be?  Any advice appreciated.

Mike Killion  (KILLION@UKANVM.BITNET)
Geography, University of Kansas
(913) 864-5143
From: csmjb@knuth.mtsu.edu (Mark J. Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Help Needed / Survey - GIS and Object-Oriented Database Technology
Summary: Need help gathering information for master's thesis!
Keywords: GIS OODBM ONTOS C++ GRASS UNIX
Date: 11 Jan 93 05:20:39 GMT
Organization: Dept of Comp Science, Middle Tenn State Univ, Murfreesboro, TN
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Hello,

I am in the process of writing my master's thesis to complete my degree
requirements so that I may (finally) graduate shortly thereafter.  I am 
posting here hoping that some of you might help me in determining just 
how I will approach this task.

I have chosen object-oriented/semantic database technology for my thesis 
emphasis.  In addition, I have targeted the use of this technology in the
well suited (IMHO) field of geographic information systems / image processing /
remote sensing.  I feel the object-oriented paradigm's modelling mechanism
applies quite nicely to the issues and concerns of modelling a GIS system.
Likewise, this has been referred to somewhat (not much) in the literature.
But I have much more ground to cover.  My project goal is to wed the 
Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) from the good people
at the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (and many,
many others) with Ontologic's ONTOS Object-Oriented Database Management 
System (a successor to VBASE).  ONTOS is a C++ based OODBMS but GRASS's
"modular" (ie, separate executable) design (in the UNIX tradition) should
allow for an interesting blend of C and C++ derived executables.  At least, 
I hope it works out that way!  :-)

At any length, I am in need of surveying the readers of these groups to 
try and locate (to as large a degree as possible) knowledge of other projects
either planned, underway, or completed, that also address the issue(s)
of GIS and OODB.  I remember getting word from someone a while back that 
there was one group working on a mix of GRASS and POSTGRES (another 
OODB system).  I am not aware of other applications of ONTOS and GIS
(esp. ONTOS and GRASS).  If you know of anything along these lines, I would
*very* much like to hear from you (private email reply preferred).  
References to projects, people, and even the literature itself would be
greatly appreciated!  If anyone reading this is already working on ONTOS
and GIS (esp. GRASS) I would like to learn more about the approach(es) you
are taking in particular so as to adjust my approach appropriately.

Well, I have taken up enough of your time.  Any help would be so much 
appreciated.  

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Mark Bailey
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Subject: USDA Boundary Data
From: JP Freeley <jpf@CHINOOK.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:23:35 EST
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Hey netters-

Welcome back. Happy Holidays...
I am wondering if bounds of the USFS lands are available in digital form.
ARC/Info format preferred.
Looking for coverage of the entire country.

THANKS

JP Freeley
jpf@chinook.cit.cornell.edu
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:10:07 -0500
From:         Bodo Berndorf <bb@UNI-TRIER.DE>
Subject:      GPS-Stations

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Hello GPS/GIS-User!
I'am searching for GPS-Basestations.
In two soilerosion-projekts in Canada (Prince Edward Island)
and near Barcelona (Spain) I plan the mapping of erosionforms
using two GPS-Reciever (Garmin GPS 100). For high accuracy
Differential GPS measurements I nead Base-Stations as known
Reference-points near my working area. Is there anybody out there
in the electronical world who knows such stations on P.E.I or Barcelona?

Also Informations on using GPS for such application would help (For
example: how can I know wich satellites will be available for the during
of my work. How is it possible to calculate the position of each satellite at
any time of a day?)

Good New Year
bb


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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:30:40 CST
From:         Pete Wolter <pwolter@SPARKIE.NRRI.UMN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 3D-terrain map of Idaho is available

Bill Thoen,

What is your numerical address?  I would like to take a look at that
Idaho.gif file of yours, but I don't have a machine-name service.

thanks!!

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Natural Resources Research Institute                Telephone: (218) 720-4275
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:59:00 GMT+0200
From:         YOUSIF ALI HUSSIN <HUSSIN@ITC.NL>
Subject:      Re: guide to postgrad courses in GIS

To,
Reader@SSCVAX.cis.mcmaster.ca

Yes, there is one published by the ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing). We have it here in the Library of ITC. I ordered it last
year. I will give you the title and more information later. Also there is a
guide for post grad courses in remote sensing in all the American and Canadain
Universities.

Yousif Hussin
ITC
From: jscott@ecst.csuchico.edu (John A. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re:      "guide to postgrad courses in GIS"
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:19:44 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

In response to those who are interested in graduate programs in geography,
I recomend the following two resources:
 
"A Guide to Departments of Geography in the U.S. and Canada"
published by the Assoc. of American Geographers
1710 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009-3198

Contains descriptions of many departments.  
Note: depts. write their own description -not and ind. review.
 
"The Student's Companion to Geography"
by Rogers, Viles, and Goudie
publisher: Basil Blackwell 1992
ISBN: 0-631-17089-8
 
Contains a wealth of information targeted to students of geography;
including address listings of Ph.D. granting institutions in the
English-speaking world.  Highly recomended.
 
John A. Scott
California State University Geography/Philosophy Major
jscott@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu


















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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:44:00 GMT
From:         STGG8004@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject:      (UK) National Grid to Lat/Long

Hi!
Does anyone out there have - or know of - a program for converting data
referenced on the British National Grid into Latitude and Longitude
coordinates (and vice versa)? I would ideally like something in the public
domain if possible.
Thanks in advance,
Darius Bartlett
DJB@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:26:07 -0500
From:         PLH01@ALBNYDH2.BITNET
Subject:      NO SUBJECT

I am looking for mapping software which runs on a PC either in Windows or
straight DOS that can be used to do geocoding. I have been looking at
literature about Tactitian, MapInfo, Atlas GIS and some others but these all
do alot more than I need. Is there anything available which does the geocoding
without all the analysis. Also I've noticed quite a price difference in the
files that are needed to do the coding and I'm not quite sure why. I am only
interested in doing this for addresses in New York State. An help or advice
would be appreciated! Thanks.
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=====   Patty Hunt PLH01@ALBNYDH2.BITNET
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:39:06 -0500
From:         kchiang@ALBERT.MANNLIB.CORNELL.EDU
Subject:      GIS Forestry Information request

Cornell University Press will be publishing a volume on the literature and
library resources of Forestry and Agroforestry. One chapter will cover
forestry database systems including GIS. The authors have focused
extensively on U.S. Forest Service work in this area.

In order to broaden the scope of the chapter we are requesting information
on European (EEC), Canadian and Australian systems. If anyone on the
Listserv knows of bibliographies, conferences or sources of information
that cover these regions would they please send that information directly
to the volume editor:

    Peter McDonald, Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
14853-4301
    pm13@cornell.edu

Many thanks.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:13:15 EST
From:         "CHOW, I-CHANG" <FCUT001@TWNMOE10.BITNET>
Subject:      GIS SOFTWARES FOR SUPERCOMPUTER

Hi:

Our university decided to purchasing supercomputer, is anyone out there
can suuest some GIS softwares which can operate on it. Also, any
suggestion are welcome, thanks in advance.

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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:57:04 PST
From:         Jim Tenbrink <esri!harley!jimt@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject:      Re: Incident 123.1107

Doug,

setenv OIT_WMGR OPENLOOK

Please put your return e-mail address into the message which you
are posting. This information isn't guaranteed to get into the
message header.

>
> 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
>

Jim TenBrink
ESRI
jtenbrink@esri.com
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
From: bthoen@teal.csn.org (Bill Thoen)
Subject: 3D-terrain map of Idaho is available
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:47:32 GMT

Sorry about that folks... I posted that 3d color GIF of Idaho, and forgot
to set the privlege so that you could get at it.   I think I gave it the 
right chmod command this time... (these damn computers never do what you 
*want* them to do, they only do what you *tell* them to do!) 

The files idaho.gif and ctm_readme.txt should be there and accessible now.
The ftp site is csn.org, and the directory is COGS.  If you can read a gif
file, the idaho map looks pretty good.  They make them for all the states,
and I think you can even get custom maps made up for any area. 

-- 
_   /|     Bill Thoen 
\'o.O'     bthoen@csn.org 
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:32:00 EST
From:         Mary James <mary@UPOLU.GSFC.NASA.GOV>
Subject:      questions for AVHRR users

Dear Network Friends,

NASA is currently processing long time series of global
AVHRR data to produce global vegetation index, sea surface
temperature and cloud properties data sets.  This is part of
the Pathfinder Program (which is part of the Mission to
Planet Earth).  The vegetation index product will be daily,
global, 8km NDVI with associated 5 channels and solar/scan
geometry (similar in many respects to the EROS Data Center's
North American data set which was released on CD-ROM last
year).  The vegetation index product will be large, with
each  image (12 bands) being appx. 220MB.  There will be
daily images and 10-day composite images for the entire time
period August 1982 through mid 1993 (and on, actually). The
data will be available to the research community at a
'nominal cost' of filling the order (e.g., media
replacement, etc.) and should be available to the community
in early 1993.

That's the background; here's the help I'm seeking.  Please
note that this is a personal inquiry and the following does
not necessarily represent any commitments on NASA's part.
IF you think you'd be interested in requesting any of these
data over the next year or so, and could briefly answer any
of the following questions, it would be a big help to me as
I make recommendations to the archive who will be
distributing the data.  Once the data are validated and
available, I will post more specific information to IMAGRS and
GIS-L.  Any brief response would be appreicated and feel free
to pass this message on to interested colleagues.

1.  WHAT IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE DO YOU USE?  (ERDAS,
    EASI/PACE, IDL, IMAGE...)
2.  WHAT TIME PERIOD(S) OF THIS DATA SET WOULD YOU BE
    INTERESTED IN?  (SEVERAL YEARS OF COMPOSITES, A MONTH
    OR TWO OF DAILY IMAGES, ONE DAY...?)
3.  ON WHAT TYPE OF MEDIA WOULD YOU WANT TO RECEIVE THE
    DATA?
4.  ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION SOFTWARE
    SUCH AS USGS' GCTP?
5.  ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE STANDARD DATA FORMAT *HDF*
    (HIERARCHICAL DATA FORMAT)?
6.  HOW MUCH DISK SPACE DO YOU GENERALLY EXPECT TO USE
    WHEN ANALYZING IMAGES?

Thanks for your help and consideration.

Mary James
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  Mary E. James                 (301)286-2432 voice
  Code 902.3  NASA/GSFC          (301)286-3221 fax
  Greenbelt, MD 20771         mary@upolu.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:04:00 GMT
From:         STGG8004@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject:      Contouring

Happy New Year to one and all!

Included in the Christmas post that accumulated on my desk during the break
was a flier for Pergamon Press, which advertised the existence of the
following book. I thought it might be of interest to some of you:

"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?

Darius Bartlett
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:09:16 EST
From:         David_Douglas <DHDAD@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject:      Re: Algorithms needed
              22 Nov 1992 21:37:27 GMT from <is@GEOVISION.GVC.COM>

On Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:37:27 GMT Ian Skelly said:
>Could somebody please send me algorithms, or a pointer to articles, code, or
>whatever with algorithms for the following:
>
>1.  Spaghetti Cutting (finding all intersections of multiple polylines)
>
>2.  Polygon formation (building up a topological description of all loops in
>a network of non-intersecting polylines, generating or finding centroids,
>etc)
>
>The algorithms we use are kind of ad-hoc, and they work, but I'm always on
>the look out for faster, more robust algorithms.

BNDRYNET
My Boundary Network Program has been doing this for decades. I first
published it in 1973. However I have done it different ways subsequently
and I have described it again in Cartogaphica Vol 29/2 1992. It will be
out in a week or two. I also have a paper in the ICA Proceedings
Bournemouth October 1991.

Cheers!David Douglas.
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From: ssteinbe@zeus.calpoly.edu (The Belle)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: CSO Help!
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:48:12 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Hello, does anyone out there, in the wide world of information,  know of
 a short list of things to do when building a CSO nameserver.

From what I can gather of the very incomplete documentation, all I need to do
once i untar the qi+.tar file, I cd into qi.  run Configure and if that
works, I run make on the Makefile resident to the qi directory.  But Of
course this doesn't work.  I get compiler errors.  Why?  I'm running on 
AIX version 1.1.2 on an IBM 370.  I've also tried running it on AIX version 
3.2 on a RS/6000.  Is there something i am missing?  I don't know what to 
put in those config files in the configs directory?

Next, I am unsure as what to do once all the executables have been created.
I have a data file containing names, phone numbers, etc...  So what
utility that was created would I use on the data file?  What files do I
configure?  None of this information was at all provided in the
documentation and I'm completely miffed by this whole thing.  I would really
appreciate any helpful suggestions.  

Thank you very much.

Sarah STeinberg,
Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo
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From: harper@convex.csc.FI (Rob Harper)
Subject: Re: Grouping Sources
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 07:53:40 GMT

In <1993Jan12.020613.3209@latcs1.lat.oz.au> baragry@amdahl1.lat.oz.au (Jason Baragry) writes:

>G'Day,

>	I was wondering if it is possible to group sources into subjects.
>I use XWais and if, for instance, I want to locate a technial report or
>journal article on a particular subject I have to choose about 6 different
>sources to search through. What I would like to be able to do would be to
>group all those sources together and simply chose that source group whenever
>I wanted to look for technical reports.

>	Is this possible? Has someone done this? Which bits of the source
>can I hack to do it?

Yes it is possible, and very easy to do.
Here are the steps

	1) Click on ADD SOURCE and add the source you want to query
	2) Repeat the procedure until you have all the sources
           you want displayed in the source window.
	3) Now if you search XWAIS will go through all the sources
           at once and give you the merged results.
	4) You can now save all these sources as a QUESTION.
	   For example I have several sources for finding people
	   and places on the network which I saved as a QUESTION
	   called "contacts"
	5) The next time you open XWAIS you then click on the
	   question you have made to highlight it... and then
           click the OPEN button to bring all you selected
	   sources into the sources box.

	That's it.
	
RGDS -=ROB=-
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