From tganders@tscnet.com Wed Feb 13 06:51:20 2002
Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16])
	by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1DEpJMr096746
	for <waphgis@lists.u.washington.edu>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:51:19 -0800
Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Feb 13 06:51:18 2002 -0800
Received: from femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.88])
	by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1DEpHWn016172
	for <waphgis@u.washington.edu>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:51:18 -0800
Received: from tscnet.com ([24.255.98.116]) by femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com
          (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP
          id <20020213145117.GXGC5914.femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tscnet.com>
          for <waphgis@u.washington.edu>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:51:17 -0800
Message-ID: <3C6A7D66.D3AAA99D@tscnet.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:51:18 -0800
From: Tom Anderson <tganders@tscnet.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "waphgis@u.washington.edu" <waphgis@u.washington.edu>
Subject: A Great GIS Suggestion
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="------------230D9AA6C1FEBD600AC8AD90"


--------------230D9AA6C1FEBD600AC8AD90
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Laurie and Dick,

Thanks for a nifty idea!  The MapScan program is really neat.  Now I can
scan a map directly, register it, and use it as the base layer in an
application.  This also simplifies the process of using a trace routine
to extract interesting features.  This is a huge improvement over the
tedious process of digitizing paper maps by hand.

I recommend this approach to all GIS folks who, like me, occasionally
find that the only source of important data is located on paper
(sometimes even hand drawn!) maps.  Thanks again for a great suggestion.

Tom Anderson, PhD, MD, MPH
ER Physician and Amateur GISer

--------------230D9AA6C1FEBD600AC8AD90
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Laurie and Dick,
<p>Thanks for a nifty idea!&nbsp; The <a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/softproj/software/mapscan.htm">MapScan</a>
program is really neat.&nbsp; Now I can scan a map directly, register it,
and use it as the base layer in an application.&nbsp; This also simplifies
the process of using a trace routine to extract interesting features.&nbsp;
This is a huge improvement over the tedious process of digitizing paper
maps by hand.
<p>I recommend this approach to all GIS folks who, like me, occasionally
find that the only source of important data is located on paper (sometimes
even hand drawn!) maps.&nbsp; Thanks again for a great suggestion.
<p>Tom Anderson, PhD, MD, MPH
<br>ER Physician and Amateur GISer</html>

--------------230D9AA6C1FEBD600AC8AD90--


.