From reh0303@doh.wa.gov Tue Apr 13 12:09:17 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id MAA31854 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:09:15 -0700 Received: from smtp.doh.wa.gov (hub.doh.wa.gov [192.230.1.5]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id MAA00077 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:09:14 -0700 Received: from Connect2 Message Router by smtp.doh.wa.gov via Connect2-SMTP 4.00; Tue, 13 Apr 99 12:11:26 -0700 Message-ID: <6B18804A014C3700@smtp.doh.wa.gov> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 99 12:10:11 -0700 From: "Hoskins, Richard E." Sender: "Hoskins, Richard E." To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Subject: WAPHGIS: National Mapping agency X-mailer: Connect2-SMTP 4.00 MHS to SMTP Gateway Likely you won't be doing any "carpet bombing" in your county but there is useful info here on datums and free data >From another listserve: " http://www.nima.mil is the general site for the U.S. military's National Imagery and Mapping Agency. They have a number of publications available for downloading in ".pdf" format, and a number (practically mind-boggling for the neophyte) of software packages for datum transformations. Although somewhat "elementary" for the sophisticated professional practitioner, this stuff will take you months, if not years, to absorb with no prior knowledge. If you download both "MUSE" and "MADTRAN" packages, that will give you sufficient data to accomplish "carpet bombing" anywhere in the world and take out ground troops with the blast radius of 1,000 pound bombs. (The "pin-point" precision stuff is not available.) If you are mapping at 1:50,000 or smaller scale (1:250,000 etc.) this free data and software is the fanciest you will need. " Richard E. Hoskins eMAIL: REH0303@doh.wa.gov tel: 360-236-4270 fax:360-236-4245 .