----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'm wondering if anyone knows of mapping programs that could be used to project characters (e.g., A-Z, 0-9, etc.) onto "map" surfaces, as if they were map features. For example, using an orthographic or stereographic projection. My interest in this is s t a t i s t i c a l , to produce publication quality "spherical analysis diagrams," where the factor loadings of variables in 3-spaces are depicted as points on the surface of a unit sphere. (Tryon and Bailey, Cluster Analysis, 1970.) Also, does anyone have the current e-mail address of Phillip. M. Voxland, the author or WORLD? Robert Dean [log in to unmask]