From healthmaps@attbi.com Tue Feb 12 13:44:17 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1CLiFMr089616 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:44:15 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Feb 12 13:44:08 2002 -0800 Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1CLi7AZ001688 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:44:07 -0800 Received: from Harriet ([12.229.21.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020212214407.BLCF1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@Harriet>; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:44:07 +0000 From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: "Tom Anderson" Subject: RE: ??Xenophobia Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:44:04 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <3C698265.7F266CD6@tscnet.com> Tom: I did get your message, thought I had responded. My answer is "no" but let me ask some listserves. Richard Hoskins WA State Department of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 (360) 236-4270 (360) 236-4245 fax richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov GMT -8 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Anderson [mailto:tganders@tscnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:00 PM To: Dick Hoskins Subject: ??Xenophobia "When home is nowhere, nothing is really safe— not work, not play, and certainly not friendship. A kind of free-floating dread can haunt people who move too often..." Excerpted from a recent book preface. I certainly do NOT agree with this sentiment. I love to travel, meet new people, live in different cultures, etc. I really do consider myself a world citizen and can't help but think that folks who don't feel the same way are missing one of the greatest advantages of living in the 21st century: the opportunity for and the rewards of International Travel. I sent the following last week but didn't hear back - did you get it? Although I'm doing well with Maptitude, I still struggle with finding, importing, and using good data. Apparently this is a common GIS problem? For some things I'm trying to do, I apparently have no choice but to digitize paper maps. This brings me to my point: can you recommend a good, inexpensive digitizer? The commercial ones I've found use all sorts of bells and whistles I don't want or need, such as 40 million colors, fancy cartoon drawing routines, etc. I'm just looking for a Volkswagen, not a Nexus (the modern day equivalent of the proverbial Cadillac?) I'll be leaving for the ER job in the USVI around the middle of March. St. Thomas might technically be the US, but is certainly has its share of folks with mid 17th century colonial thought patterns. .