Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!littauer From: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: North America (5 of 5) Summary: Counterflame Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 88 18:16:37 GMT References: <1202@cleo.SW.MCC.COM> <4064@umd5.umd.edu> Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 39 In article <4064@umd5.umd.edu> jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt) writes: >[FLAME ON!!!!!!!] An undeserved flame. >This ended up being a very low detail picture where most of the data is >used to make thick lines by drawing thousands of thin ones. Actually, that seems to be detail of the coastline. I took a segment of the data and magnified it and saw no "emphasized" or "thick" lines, but rather lots of details of bays, inlets, islands, etc. > I think >the poster of this should apologize for posting such a ridiculous amount of >data for such a simple picture. This is an abuse to the net, I have >never seen this much data posted for anything so trivial. I think the poster did us a service. While I agree that the data needs reformatting, the poster *DID* state that up front in declining to ship the whole world. In fact, I assumed that he posted NA to encourage someone to write a reformatter so he *COULD* post the world responsibly. > Netters I >would not waste your time using this data for anything other than system >bashing. Actually, it's useful for playing with projection technique (sphere to flat, etc.) and, since it's lat./long. based, it may be useful elsewhere as well. Basically it's an outline of the continent (Mexico excluded) with large lakes added. No other interior features except US/Canada borders. -- UUCP: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ames,uunet}!amdahl!littauer DDD: (408) 737-5056 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 337, 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).