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Subject: GovAccess.060: USGS & NASA data-readers; Smart Valley summar
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MAC VIEWERS FOR USGS AND NOAA DATASETS
From <@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU:[log in to unmask]> Sun Sep 18 08:09:33 1994
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From: [log in to unmask] (Gib Henry)
Y'all have expressed an interest in mapping software for the Mac. Nils
Davis ([log in to unmask]) was kind enough to provide some very
detailed info which I'm forwarding after the following "lets play catch-up"
quotes.
[My original message to Busbey <[log in to unmask]>:]
>I saw your unrelated post on MACPB-L and noticed that you're a geologist,
>so I was wondering if you could point me toward a Mac viewer for all that
>USGS data that lives out there. I can download the stuff, but I can't find
>anything that'll open and view the maps.
>
>I've tried NIH's Image 4.pds and it won't work either (unless I'm doing
>something wrong in the downloading process). Can your give me any
>pointers?
>>>
[His response:]
>Howdy,
> Could you be a little more specific about the files? There are lots of
>different kind of files on the USGS servers. Besides the fact that they
>are in many different formats many are also 'zipped' or 'uuencoded'. I
>have run across files in jpeg, postscript, dlg, dem & other formats. Some
>I have found ways to read and some require conversion software (such as
>CAD-mover) that I don't have. Send me the URL for the particular
>site you obtained files from and the names of the files and I'll see
>what I can do.
> Many of the earth observation NASA images are in jpeg format so you
>need some kind of jpeg converter - that is why I like to download them
>using Mosaic, since it does jpeg conversion (with help).
> Sorry I can't be of much more help right now.
>Art
A while ago I responded to the above. Since then, I've discovered MacGIS,
shareware which apparently can display DLG's and perhaps some other
formats. There is a demo version available. Nils Davis was kind enough to
send me the following .html page (I purposely didn't use any quoting
character, since you'd have a hell of a time reading the html in your
browser if I did!):
[From Nils Davis ([log in to unmask]):]
>>>>>>>>>>
Gib --
... <omitted html document that contained the results of a search he did
on GIS resources for the Macintosh. The first entry
(http://abacus.bates.edu/~nsmith/General/Resources-GIS.html, "Internet
resources for geographic information and GIS"), was where he found the
information that led me to MacGIS.
The site that has MacGIS is the MacGIS gopher server at the University of
Oregon. The url is
gopher://dslmac.uoregon.edu/1D-1%3a31820%3amacGIS%20Gopher.>
FOLLOWED BY THIS NOTE
From [log in to unmask] Sun Sep 18 12:17:19 1994
From: [log in to unmask] (Art Busbey)
...
The last I knew MacGIS was still a commercial product. If it is has
become shareware then they must have given up serious development.
Otherwise, there
is Map II (since its big brother, MapFactory, is not available yet). Map II
doesn't read dlg data but does read a variety of other formats. If MapFactor
(for which I am a beta tester) ever comes out it should provide most of the
raster-based GIS anyone might usually need and provides c-based plug-in
models for read and exporting to a variety of formats.
Also, as long as we are on dlg format, if you purchase SurfaceIII from the
Kansas Geological Survey (their contouring software) it comes with a
utility that converts dlg vectors files into SurfaceIII ROUT files. The
other big-time contouring mapping packages on the Mac, MacGridzo and
MCadContour do not support dlg input to my knowledge.
The only serious Macintosh pure GIS product right now is MacGRASS, but that
requires AUX to run. It is just the Macintosh port of the Corps of
Engineers GRASS raster GIS system and functions like GRASS on any platform.
If it comes out MapFactory will also be a serious professional GIS tool. If
you are interested in the image processing side of GIS then MultiSpec (from
Purdue) and Dimple (from Cherwell Scientific Publishing) are geared toward
image processing and multispectral data analysis. I have heard of Mac
support in two other image process/GIS programs that normally run under
UNIX, ENVI and (hell I forgot the name of the other and can't look it up now).
This looks like babling, but since I try to keep up with any
mapping/GIS.image processing applications for the Mac I am interested in
spreading information and also collecting same. I will look and see if the
shareware version of MacGIS is the last commercial version I saw.
Art Busbey, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Geology
Department of Geology - TCU | [log in to unmask]
Box 30798 | (817) 921-7270 - VOICE
Fort Worth, TX 76129 | (817) 921-7789 - FAX
Blurb: I write a Macintosh software column for Geotimes. If you know of
any earth-science related Macintosh software I would love to hear about it.
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From [log in to unmask] Fri Sep 16 14:56:41 1994
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