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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:29:56 -0500
From: Carol Marley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: GeoName <fwd>
Sender: Carol Marley <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
We're running Geoname on Windows '95 and have had no problems. Usually we ppoint
to Websites rahter than running CDs, when the sites are proven to be effective.
An example would be the GNIS site. We never did get that software running
locally. We like the Website.
 
I should think the advantage of the Website for Geoname/NIMA is that it would be
more up-to-date than the CD- ours is a 1995 product. I must say, it's easy to
search- our students like it. Carol Marley, McGill University
 
 
 
Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
 
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> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:14:47 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
> From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: GeoName <fwd>
> Sender: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
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> > From: "David A. Cobb" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: GeoName
> > Sender: "David A. Cobb" <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I suspect that others acquired this CD-ROM and may be having similar
> > problems as we are - it runs with Windows 3.1. Like many other libraries we
> > have coverted our platforms and applications to run on NT or Unix and are
> > now perplexed as to what we should do with this product.
> >
> > Have others simply discarded it or put it into storage and are now using
> > the NMIA web site?
>
> David and others,
>
> We're running it, along with a couple of other programs in our Public
> Documents and maps department, on a non-networked "legacy"
> workstation.  This machine only runs Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.1.
>
> I probably go for the NIMA web site usually, although the interface
> can be more awkward depending on the question.  For those
> genealogy questions you can't drag a box around eastern Europe, can
> you? And, I think it's been out of order (i.e., "down") at times when
> I've gone there.
>
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