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From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
Message-ID: <5070@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Sat, 30-Aug-86 03:00:57 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 30 03:00:57 1986
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References: <5048@decwrl.DEC.COM> <15454@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <432@epimass.UUCP>
Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: DEC Western Research
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In article <432@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:

 >One way of putting pressure on people to improve their #[A-Z] lines
 >would be to post some software that actually does something
 >interesting with them.  As long as they are just comments, there's
 >little incentive to maintain them.

I have a program that plots USENET maps using the CIA World Bank II map data
base, various cartographic projections, and the mod.map data. It is pretty
neat. I am still working on it; for example, at this very moment I am adding
an option that will switch between Mercator projections and Lambert Conformal
projections; sometimes one is better than the other.

While I am willing to release the program eventually, it requires almost half
a gigabyte of support data to do its job, so I think that for the moment I
will just post the maps that it produces (PostScript files) and not the
program itself.

Brian