-------- Original Message -------- 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 To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] References: <200407272112.1bPFNW5Fo3NZFjV0@sparrow> ------------------ 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]> > > ------------------ > 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