Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!voder!nsc!amdahl!littauer From: littauer@uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: more information on digital maps Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 90 19:30:29 GMT References: <4636@helios.TAMU.EDU> <4640@helios.TAMU.EDU> Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Distribution: usa Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 37 In article <4640@helios.TAMU.EDU> hmueller@wfsc1.tamu.edu (Hal Mueller) writes: > >What's your opinion of the quality of data in 1:100K, vice 1:24K? How long is a piece of string? :-) > Project is a wildlife/habitat >simulation; map is just a base map, to which we'll add vegetation >types and other domain-dependent stuff. I'm afraid this doesn't tell me enough about the project to advise you. If you want terrain, DLG doesn't have any. If you're looking to locate your domains by using known road and stream features as benchmarks you can easily get to within small tens of feet - the USGS descriptions will tell you exactly. I know it's easy to small tens because of all the folks who used our demo to get the LatLon of Granny's chair on the porch :-) or their bedrooms. If you have further questions, send me email or call - although I suspect the rest of the gang would be interested in a summary of the project, detailed discussion would probably get old. >Hal Mueller hmueller@cssun.tamu.edu n270ca@tamunix (Bitnet) >Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science >Research Assistant, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science >Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 Hmmm, Aggies... I'm the guy who helped you guys install our mainframe UNIX, UTS, back in '84. -- UUCP: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ames,uunet}!amdahl!littauer DDD: (408) 737-5056 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 278, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 I'll tell you when I'm giving you the party line. The rest of the time it's my very own ravings (accept no substitutes).