----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am posting this message for a colleague at Brooklyn College, who has no access to Internet. The Department of Geology there is a USGS Depository, but their collection has been neglected for many years and is currently unfiled, uncataloged, and unstaffed. My colleague has the opportunity to get some funding to buy services and hardware/software, but the proposals are due this Thursday (April 29th). Please could you supply helpful hints etc? I will save and forward them to him as they arrive. Thanks in advance: Keith Clarke Info follows: =================================================================== The Department of Geology at Brooklyn College is interested in acquiring hardware and software suitable for setting up a map processing station. Specifically, we would like to engage in sophisticated indexing of maps and their searching and display. The library would like to superimpose map data, sum and contour the result, produce 3 dimensional images from contours and to manipulate these in various ways. Library: USGS Depository (just quads) Service community is Geology Dept., gen public, other university users. Staff: 2 faculty. To be staffed by users. (fac/students) researchers Budget is about $50K. They need concrete suggestions (names and contacts please) for hardware,software,services etc. =================================================================== [log in to unmask] Keith Clarke, Hunter College