big
"if" right now. I think Caliper knows what to do, but my knowledge of
projections and coordinate systems is just enough to get really flat maps of WA
and CA looking like a string bean. One of the "bad" things Maptitude does for us
projection weenies is to make it a bit too transparent (I am not really
complaining!) so I get a little confused.
With
vector maps you can be blissfully ignorant (not all that bad ..) but when the
raster world meets the vector world, then you got to have your act together or
your vector map is one hemisphere and the raster just off the coast of
Mauritius.
The
USGS site if full of stuff and its getting better and fatter. I have fooled
around with it some and usually I can get Maptitude to access all of it. AV
reads one kind of raster file, that's it unless you buy spatial analyst and that
doesn't expand the range much.
And if
you want a good read about when geographers were geographers, check out:
The Great Arc : The Dramatic
Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named, by John
KeayHappy
New Year ...
Richard Hoskins
GMT -8
-----Original Message-----Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:37 AM
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wow. that sounds fantastic. hopefully if you get it figgured out you can tell us how it works.bob-----Original Message-----Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
From: Health Maps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:16 PM
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Subject: RE: [Maptitude] bin files
I think they are 1/100,000 30 meter pixels of land cover. I am bumping around getting them to work in Maptitude, but Peter has advised that I need to fix some projection items. I'll keep everyone posted. They are very cool images. I am very green in this part of GIS so I will have to make a lot of dumb mistakes first. You part of the country is complete. W US is still under construction.Richard HoskinsGMT -8-----Original Message-----Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
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what do these maps show, and at what scale?thanksbob rogerssouth carolina-----Original Message-----Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:27 AM
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Subject: [Maptitude] bin files
I got some preliminary files from http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/programs/lccp/ftpdownload.htmlwhich is producing the The National Land Cover Data (NLCD) CDs. The FTP files are bin files. Can these be opened in Maptitude? (seems they cannot) The come as geo Tiffs on the CDs, but WA is not available, eastern states are available. This is an area I know nothing about - any pointers will be useful.Richard HoskinsGMT -8
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