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Subject: Re: plotting data by zip code
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:02:31 -0500
From: Mike Flannigan <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Southwestern Bell Internet Services
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Many $20 software packages can easily plot lat/longs.  Ask
them if they have lat/long or UTM for each alumni.  If not,
then you are faced with writing a script to get lat/long for each
address, if you want to go that way.


Mike



> Subject: plotting data by zip code
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:26:13 -0500
> From: Coombs, James A <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> Our Library's Development Director asked me if I could plot maps of
> Missouri and the U.S. showing where alumni are located by plugging in
> their zip codes and generating a map.  I do not have a mapping program
> that can do this. Apparently Microsoft's Map Point can perform this
> task, and I imagine there's an ESRI product that could do it as well.
>
> Do any of you use Map Point?  Would you recommend it for this kind of
> plotting or is there another program that does it better?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Coombs
> Map Librarian
> Duane G Meyer Library
> Southwest Missouri State University