----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello, I'm an amateur map freak, and just recently found this list. I've built up a decent collection of antique maps, and for a few years I sold reprints of maps from my collection via mailorder. The reprint business was too much work so I got out of it. For the last couple years, I've been combining my software skills with my map collection and produced various computer-generated 'birds-eye-views' and 'fly-throughs'* of various landscapes. I feel today's average desktop computers can provide new methods for exploring and visualizing maps. Is anyone on this list using desktop PCs as an aid in map visualization? * a 'fly-through' is a computer animation that gives the sensation of flying through a 3 dimensional landscape. The landscape is initially built from digital map information, and then a couple hundred 'frames' are generated from various points in the landscape. The frames are then shown in sequence and the result is a fly-through. Regards. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Web Home Page: http://home.aol.com/menotomy ftp site for sample 3d fly-through of the Bull Run area in the 1860s (US Civil War): users.aol.com:/menotomy/flythru/bullrun.zip +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++