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From:         "J.L. Morgan" <jlm4@LEICESTER.AC.UK>
Subject:      Pollution Data

Hi there!

I was wondering whether or not anyone knew of a data source for pollution of
rivers by abandoned mines. This is intended to be a big project of mine and I
wanted to see if the study had been done before. If anyone does know of a
source of data or know of someone who had done a similar study, then I'd be
greatful.

If you have any information then you can contact me at the address below.

Thanks!

                                        Jon

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From:         "J.L. Morgan" <jlm4@LEICESTER.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Not a gis question, but . . .
              93 10:00 am

> 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?

A friend of mine had a similar problem. The monitor emitted the whine that you
mentioned as soon as he switched it on when it came out of the box. It turned
out to be a graphics card / monitor problem; the card was producing the wrong
signals for the monitor to work properly.

If it has only just started up check with the people you bought it off (or the
Computer guyz in your department) as it could just be degradation of the
components.

Hope this helps!

                                                        Jon

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From: xor@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Joe Schwartz)
Subject: Re:      MapInfo Info
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:41:37 GMT

In article <18679641@um.cc.umich.edu> Sebastian.Heath@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU writes:
>Could somebody at MapInfo corp please send me a publicity packet.
>The more detailed the better.  Please include any information about
>your programming language which I believe is called MapBasic.
>
>Address:
>Sebastian Heath,
>Kelsey Museum,
>434 South State Street,
>Ann Arbor, MI, 48104.

Sebastian, I've forwarded your request to our Sales department, and
they'll send the literature to you right away.

If anyone else wants information about MapInfo, you'll get much faster
results if you call our Sales department directly at (800) FAST-MAP
or (518) 274-6000.  You can also fax them at (518) 274-6066.
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Joe Schwartz       E-mail: xor@acm.rpi.edu
MapInfo Corp.
200 Broadway       These are my own opinions.  Any resemblance to the
Troy, NY 12180     opinions of MapInfo Corporation is purely coincidental.
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:26:43 GMT
From:         Neil Pawson <Neil.Pawson@SMALLWORLD.CO.UK>
Subject:      height data wanted

Hi,
        Smallworld are currently doing work on terrain modelling and I
was wondering if anyone out their has any puplic domain terrain height
data samples we could look at.

Cheers!
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:39:51 PST
From:         John Richardson Sun SE Ontario CA 714-988-9464
              <ontario!jrich@SUNKIST.WEST.SUN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Historic Battlefields

I have a friend that is very interested in Civil War battles,
and may be getting internet access in the near future.
Is there a mailing-list/newsgroup that you are aware of that
discusses this subject?

Thanks for any information,
John


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From: xor@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Joe Schwartz)
Subject: Re:      MapInfo on a powerbook
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:28:12 GMT

In article <9301060152.AA04506@ikaros.harvard.edu> Sebastian Francis Sherman Heath/81920 <sfsh@IKAROS.HARVARD.EDU> writes:
>Will Mapinfo run comfortably on a Powerbook 180 with 8 meg ram and
>an 80 meg HD?
>I expect to be collecting data on some 2000 polygons with about 25-30
>numeric fields associated with each polygon.

Yep, MapInfo for Macintosh will run quite comfortably on a PowerBook.
MapInfo needs roughly 1.5M of RAM to run in, and it takes up about
7M of hard disk space (including the sample data).  If you plan to
purchase lots of extra map data, you may need more disk space.  But
80M should be more than enough to store 2000 polygons, unless they each
have thousands of vertices.

I will warn you that MapInfo is quite disk-intensive, so it might drain
a PowerBook's battery faster than most applications.  If your data files
are small, you might want to use some of your RAM as a RAM disk and put
the files there while using MapInfo.
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MapInfo Corp.
200 Broadway       Disclaimer: "Everything I know is wrong."
Troy, NY 12180     Corollary:  "Nothing I say represents MapInfo Corp."
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:43:19 PST
From:         Jerry Carter <jerry@ELDORADO.WRC.UNR.EDU>
Subject:      Historic Battlefields

Some time ago, there was an inquiry about available map data related to historic
 battlefields in the U.S.  I'm very interested in learning the status of this
 search, as I may have some resources to share.

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Jerry Carter
Water Resources Center
Desert Research Institute
P.O. Box 19040
Las Vegas, NV  89132-0040
(702) 895-0457
jerry@eldorado.wrc.unr.edu
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:15:58 EST
From:         JIM ENG <ENG@IPFWCVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Environmental Racism

Matthew Klein at Ball State asked about using GIS in a database to compute
distance from sites of hazardous waste landfills/incinerators, etc., as one
of several variables in studying racism in site-selection for environmentally
threatening installations.  I can't answer Matthew's larger question, about
how useful it would be for him to use a  GIS in his work, but I can offer
a couple sources of data. ...  The EPA's Toxic Release Inventory includes
data about disposal sites for toxic materials.  It also has fields for
latitute  and longitude of the sites.   Census data  can be  keyed to the
latitude and longitude rather easily, also.   So it should be a fairly simple
matter to select particular classes of sites from the TRI and compute
statistics about the racial characteristics of populations in (rough)
concentric circles around the sites or downwind from the sites (if you
wanted to factor in prevailing winds) or downstream from the sites, etc.

I wonder if this is what you had in mind, Matthew, and I wonder if anyone
can offer pointers about how this kind of  analysis might be accomplished
with or without a GIS, and what the relative merits would be of using GIS?

Jim Eng
Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne

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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:27:27 PST
From:         Todd Fitzgibbon <tfitz@TAPEATS.WR.USGS.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Academic Course Guidebook

Jay Morgan
Department of Geography and Environmental Planning
Towson State University
Baltimore, Maryland 21204-7097

RE updated and expanded directory of academic GIS courses:

I suggest you include the night-course offerings in GIS by University of
California Berkeley Extension in your directory of GIS courses.  The Fall
1992 semester included a short-course by Hanan Samet on spatial data
structures and an introductory quarter-length course using Laurini and
Thompson by Curt Kolovson.  A quarter-length course titled Geographic
Information Systems using PC ARC/INFO starts Feb. 10, and a 3-day version
starts March 24.  Both courses are hands-on and cost $700.00 each.
S. Reily Love, a certified PC ARC/INFO instructor formerly with ESRI, will
teach the courses.  The Extension phone number is 510-642-0374.

It is rumored that UCB Extension is planning a certificate program in GIS
that would include courses both in GIS fundamentals and in specific
software products.  The level of interest in Extension's GIS courses, and in
related courses in databases, human-computer interfaces, programming, etc.,
has been extremely high.  The courses have been a boon for many who came
to GIS from other disciplines but who don't have time for formal degree
programs.

Todd Fitzgibbon                 345 Middlefield Rd. MS-975
Geologist                       Menlo Park, CA 94025
U.S. Geological Survey          415-329-4942, FAX 415-329-4936
Western Regional Geology        tfitz@tapeats.wr.usgs.gov
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:47:12 EST
From:         HZN26681@UDELVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: TIGER DISPLAY PROGRAM??
              7 Jan 1993 11:31:07 EST from <pjones@NEON.MITRE.ORG>

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.
>
>                                                Pat Jones
>                                                plj@mitre.org

I wrote some programs in Fortran to read and retrieve something that
I need some time ago, and it's awful lot of work.  I'm looking for
some existing programs to do the samething.  If you found any of them,
could you let me know?  Thanks.

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From: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee)
Subject: Information on Lowtran?
Reply-To: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:53:07 GMT

I am interested in obtaining the latest LOWTRAN Radiative 
Transfer Code for the atmospheric correction of satellite 
data. Could someone please tell me where (and how) I can get
it. 
 
I'd also be interersted in hearing of any comparisons between 
LOWTRAN code and SAIL or other RTC models.
 
Thanks,

	Oliver Weatherbee


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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:06:01 EST
From:         Holly Dickinson <esri!reston!holly@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject:      Global Env. Research Info. Request

Hello all.

I have a client who is starting on a new GIS Global Environmental Research
Program. He would like to know of any other groups doing environmental
reasearch on a global scale using GIS technology.  He is interested in learning
who is doing what and what research has been completed.  He is hoping to
get contact names and phone numbers. My client does not have E-Mail available
at this time, so please respond to me and I will pass on the information.

Thank you!

Holly Dickinson,
ESRI-Washington, DC
(703) 438-8295

(hdickinson@esri.com)
From: rowan@ocean.rutgers.edu (Andy Rowan)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: Arcedit AML creation
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:55:31 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

cvalj001@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:


>   I need to create an AML file for Arcedit in ARC/INFO ver. 5.0 on the
>Tektronix.  I want an AML to draw node errors.  Here's the list of commands I
>wnat in the AML;

>de node error
>nodesize dangle .2
>nodecolor dangle 2
>nodesize pseudo .15
>nodecolor pseudo 5
>draw

>   The AML manual is not of much help in how to create the AML.


Just throw them into a text file and call it an AML!
Then to run it, just say &R {amlname}.

Tip: don't use abbreviations in AMLs.  ESRI occasionally changes what is
allowable as an abbreviation (like when a new command with a similar name
is added), so then you have to go around and change all the abbrev's in
your AML's.

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| Andy Rowan                         |
| Cook College Remote Sensing Center |
| Rutgers University                 |
| rowan@ocean.rutgers.edu            |
| (908) 932-9631                     |
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From: bill@AEC.MsState.Edu (bill balcerzak)
Subject: Universities with Ph.D. programs in Geography/GIS
Organization: Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural Economics:  Geographic Information Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:38:18 GMT

I have been working for the past several years as a manager of a GIS project
at Mississippi State University and have decided to return to school for a
Ph.D.  I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations on a
Ph.D. program in Geography with an emphasis in GIS or computerized mapping.

I hold an MS and BS in Geology as well as a BA in Anthropology and, as 
mentioned, have had several years of practical experience with GIS.

Any suggestions?

-- 
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Bill Balcerzak       /* "Bug fixes?  We should just go slap the
bill@aec.msstate.edu /*  user on the side of the head and tell 
601-325-8321         /*  'em not to do it anymore." RA
From: cogs1@slate.mines.colorado.edu (THOEN WILLIAM )
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Subject: re: WANTED - Cartography program
Date: 11 Jan 93 05:38:37 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

I think GSMAP is pretty good.  It's available via ftp to csn.org in the
COGS/mapping directory. World data is avaialble in lots of places. The
above site has the Micro World Databank II (I think), but I know that you
can get the data where MWDBII came from at hanauma.stanford.edu  (via
anoymous ftp) in the pub/World_Map dorectory.  But you'll need to be
proficient in C to use this source! 

Are you looking for software or data, or both?
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From:         GEOWASSE@EKU.BITNET
Subject:      Idrisi

Hello Team:

Is there a discussion list for IDRISI?  If so, would some kind soul
please send me the subscription information?

Thank you in advance.

                                Arco Wasserman
                                GEOWASSE@eku.bitnet
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:18:54 EST
From: <PROMISLO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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Subject: A.Schutzberg's reply to DP

Adena.  Thanks for you reply--great to hear from you.  I've been
unable to reach you at your email address, and have several GIS-related
questions I'd like to ask you.  Can you send me your mailing address
via email and I'll contact you via snail mail?
Cheers, Daniel
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:48:46 LCL
From:         stevef <stevef.QM@OLYMPUS.UMESVE.MAINE.EDU>
Subject:      1992 GIS Compendiums

                       Subject:                               Time:12:32 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          1992 GIS Compendiums                   Date:1/4/93
Does anyone have a copy of any of the compendiums listed below?  Seeking to
borrow same for inclusion in the 1992 NCGIA Bibliography.


        Geographic Information Systems: The Microcomputer and Modern
Cartography
(Ed. D. R. Fraser Taylor)

        Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping: Practices and
        Standards
(Ed. A. J. Johnson, C. B. Pettersson, J. I. Fulton)

        GIS and Urban and Rural Planning (Ed. Rideout)

        Spatial Analysis and Spatial Policy Using Geographic   Information   Sys
tems
(Ed. Worrall)

Please reply to me personally at: stevef@mecan1.maine.edu

Thanks

Steve Frank
Dept. of Surveying Eng./NCGIA
Boardman Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME  04469-5711
From: cvalj001@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
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Subject: Arcedit AML creation
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:54:12 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvalj001


   I need to create an AML file for Arcedit in ARC/INFO ver. 5.0 on the
Tektronix.  I want an AML to draw node errors.  Here's the list of commands I
wnat in the AML;

de node error
nodesize dangle .2
nodecolor dangle 2
nodesize pseudo .15
nodecolor pseudo 5
draw

   The AML manual is not of much help in how to create the AML.

Thanks in advance!!
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                          Cal Poly, Pomona
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                Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711

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own opinion.  For those who have a problem with that, fill out (in
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From:         Scott Freundschuh <sfreundsch@KEAN.UCS.MUN.CA>
Subject:      Re: MapInfo on a powerbook

In a reply message about MapInfo on a power book, Joe Schwartz included
the following footer...

>>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."

I'm not sure if the above corollary necessarily follows the disclaimer -
I've talked to several representatives of various companies who seemed to
know many wrong things, but yet were still representing their respective
employers...maybe the corollary should be "so just you never mind" ;) !!!

Scott Freundschuh
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:24:29 -0500
From:         S74XNOY@TOWSONVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: experiences with digitizers??

We have been using an ALTEK Datatab digitizer with GRASS 4.0 with relative
success.  Although we have experienced some minor glitches, I feel it is a
attributable to the Hardware platform we are currently using.

                                Pete Noy
                                Army Corps of Engineers
                                Baltimore District
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:19:00 GMT
From:         STGG8004@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject:      Spot data and Idrisi

Hi,
Can anyone enlighten me please, (a) as to whether there is a European address
to write to for Spot imagery? (b) Roughly how much the images cost; and
(c) if I were able to get hold of Spot image data, is it possible to import
it into Idrisi, and use the image processing ring of Idrisi to analyse the
data and extract useful information?
As a total neophyte, I am looking for a painless way to test the waters of
satellite image processing, preferably using the tools that we already have,
rather than buying yet more hardware and software. Can Idrisi be succesfully
used as a novice's image processing system? What about geometric rectification
of the satellite data? Is this a problem, or is it taken care of before the
customer gets hold of the data? (Shows how much of a neophyte I am... I guess
this is all fairly obvious to seasoned hands at this :-).
If Spot data are for some reason not advisable to start with, can anybody
suggest a cheap source of raw satellite data that I could tap as a starting
point to learn the ropes? I wouldn't even need a full - or even a quarter -
scene, but would like different bands of data for the same image. Any
suggestions?
Thanks in advance,

Darius Bartlett
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:55:54 MEZ
From:         Christoph Kirchhoff <KIRCHHC@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Voronoi Tessalation GIS
              11 Dec 1992 13:38:05 EST from <axing@GEOG.UTORONTO.CA>

Hallo,
I am very interested in a copy of your paper comparing different methods of
spherical interpolation
thank you very much in advance

Christoph Kirchhoff
Institut fuer Geographie
Universitaet Muenster
Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28
D-4400 Muenster
e-mail: KIRCHHC@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:05:29 -0500
From:         E7G4KIN@TOWSONVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Environmental Racism

Hello to Ball State!...I'm a graduate Landscape Architect from Rutgers...
Jeff Hall was my instructor in 1970....Since graduating, I have had many careers
   , including enginerr, etc.  Now, my firm Data Chromayics, works with GIS appl
   ications.  There is a multitude of data that could assist you.  The simplist
   data
is that provided by the Census...it can give you a lot of statistics on
population, etc.  I would be more than happy to help you in any way I can.
Please give me a little more detail and I will try to help

P.S.  If you see Jeff Hall, ask him to leave me a mail message.

Ken Kinsey