I
figured it out after applying my vast knowledge of projections (that is I tried
a bunch until it worked ..) it is State plane 83 CA zone 1 (or close). Why AV
plays around with projections like it does is a mystery. We need to give a
collective thank you to Caliper for not putting us through this projection
misery that ESRI insists that AV users endure.
For
"fun" I am learning AV from one of the ESRI books and comparing Maptitude
exercise for exercise ..(so I need the AV files) see which does what the
other doesn't etc. I have this weird idea that my agency should be spending $400
rather than $1400 for GIS software (guess I'll never go far in government
wanting to save taxpayer money ...) so its time to quantify the differences.
Also I got a 1/2 done project dumped on me that was in AV. In needs to be
finished in AV although I completed the project in 1 hour in Maptitude. Actually
it would have been in 20 minutes but most of the time was spent figuring out the
projection mess. One layer was a squeezed WA state county map overlaid on a
squashed WA state census map with hospitals out in the Pacific ocean.
It
might be worth putting on the web site some comparison table. If others want to
send me their comparisons, I will compile them and try to verify them along with
the list I am developing.
Richard Hoskins
-----Original Message-----Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
From: Richard E. Hoskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 7:24 AM
To: Maptitude
Subject: [Maptitude] Shape to Maptitude
I have some AV shape files in some arbitrary coordinate, some tutorial files from an instruction book. I want to read them into Maptitude but Maptitude balks. They are read in but I get a message that the database is empty, that it might be the wrong coordinate system, etc. Is there a way to import shp files into Maptitude in which the coordinates are some arbitrary type? In AV the projection is not recognized as anything. Not decimal degrees.Any ideas? thanks ...Richard Hoskins
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