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Dear colleagues, Some weeks ago I inquired on several list servers about graphical mapping software for PowerMacintoshs to plot and print worldwide geographical data. The question was: I am seeking for a graphical program which allows to plot and print worldwide geographical data (Latitude/Longitude, and an associated numerical value) on a Macintosh. The program should be capable of various projection types, an should run on one of the newer PowerPC Macs (Model 8500 or newer). It should have an ascii-type of interface for easy data exchange and entry. Can anyone recommend me a program package, that is not too much expensive ? Is there eventually public software available, which can be downloaded from the web or from an ftp site ? I obtained quite a number of replies, for which I wish to thank everybody. Since several persons were interested in the replies too, I place them back to this list. Michael Knappertsbusch Geology Department Natural History Museum Basel Augustinergasse 2 4001 Basel, Switzerland Tel. No.: +41-61-266 55 64 Fax No.: +41-61-266 55 46 Email: Knappertsbus@ubaclu.unibas.ch ***************************************************** Here they are: Atlas 2 from WTC Scientific, 152 Buxton Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 1NG, U.K. (this is an old address; I don't know whether it is still correct). Atlas 2 works only perfectly on PowerMacintoshes if a soft floating point emulator is installed. FPE are shareware and available from computer dealers. Software FPU from John Neil & Associates, P.O. Box 2156, Cupertino, Ca 95015, USA will do the job. ***************************************************** From: Nelson Sherry <nsherry@unixg.ubc.ca> I don't know of one for the Mac, but there is one that appears to fit your bill quite nicely for the PC and the gentleman (a helpful guy) that wrote the thing may well be able to help you find one for the Mac. The program is widely available in the public domain and is called versamap or vmap. It's quite flexible and reads in most standard ascii map file types. A keyword search on the internet should turn up plenty of sources for this. If you're really interested in what I just said and you strike out getting ahold of the guy, send me an email and I'll try to find my well barried correspondences with the guy. Good luck, Nelson ***************************************************** From: Norman A Andresen <andresen@umich.edu> Look at the program RangeMapper. source: Tundra Vole Software Kenelm W. Philip 1590 North Becker Ridge Road Fairbanks Alaska 99709-2705 e-mail tvole@imagi,net cost $459+shipping. We have seen a demonstrtion of the program and it looks good. It is being uesd in the UM museum and they like it. Norman Andresen E-Mail: andresen@umich.edu Center for Great Lakes & Aquatic Sciences CompuServe: 70721,2564 University of Michigan 2200 Bonisteel Blvd. Telephone: 313-647-2734 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099 FAX: 313-647-2748 ***************************************************** From: KSchlei354@aol.com I'm interested in getting good maps off the net. From paleonet I heard: >As a last resort, there's always the Xerox PARC Map viewer at: >http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com:80/map but this is only for recent Earth maps I've found http://www.mapquest.com to have more detailed maps and faster response. Does anyone know of sites that have geological or topo maps or areal photos? Karl Schleicher kschlei354@aol.com ***************************************************** From: William Riedel 619-534-4386 <wriedel@ucsd.edu> Hi, Michael: I now notice that some of the replies I received on this topic , so I copy them below. Bill R. Dear Dr. Riedel, may be you remember that, during your visit at the Alfred Wegener Institute last year, we gave you a short introduction of our information system for sediments called SEPAN (Sediment and Paleoclimate Data Network). There is a tool belonging to this system, called MacMap. It is designed to plot maps with core locations together with the core label or even analytical data or what ever you want. The software is called by SEPAN after retrieval but also runs stand alone. You will find MacMap on our ftp-server (ftp.awi-bremerhaven.de; in the directory /pup/geo/sepan/macintosh/macmap). For the first it runs under MacOS, a version for Win95 will soon be available. Sorry to say, but there is no manual right now. I am still writing on that. MacMap uses GEBCO-data to plot depth contours, the GEBCO-data you will find together with MacMap but only in three lower resolutions. The 100% resolution is about 60MB. Hopefully MacMap is mostly self explaining. If you find it usefull, we can send you the GEBCO 100% resolution on CD. Also SEPAN will soon be available on CD to be used as a stand alone version without analytical data but including all the famous Lamont-cores... You should also try PolyPlot, which you may also find on our ftp- site. It is a nice and simple plotting tool just to plot parameter verus depth or time, also designed as an appended tool to our information system. With my very best regards Hannes Grobe Dr. Hannes Grobe Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research 27515 Bremerhaven Germany Fon: ++49 471 4831 229 Fax: ++49 471 4831 149 grobe@awi-bremerhaven.de ---------------------------------------- Hello, there is a map plotting software developped by Hannes Grobe, M. Diepenbrook and colleagues at AWI which is called "Macmap". You might want to inquire with Grobe (grobe@awi-bremerhaven.de) to receive a recent version. Another tool that I found particularly useful and smart is "Online Map Creation" by Martin Weinelt at Geomar (http://www.geomar.de/personal/mwein/omc_intro.html). It is perhaps not as detailed as MacMap, but fast and platform- independent. Good luck. THOMAS PLETSCH Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel Olshausenstr. 40-60 D-24118 Kiel, FR Germany Phone: +49-431-880-2938 Fax: +49-431-880-4376 email: tp@zaphod.gpi.uni-kiel.de ---------------------------------------------- Bill - The mapping software is at GEOMAR, linked to the ODSN, but it only plots geographic boundaries currently, not point/locations on the map. The URL is http://www.geomar.de/personal/mwein/omc_intro.html I think they were working on adding data plotting. Carla From: bill@geomar.de (W.W. Hay) Dear Bill, Try this more complete address http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html Bill Hay --------------------------------------- W. Riedel Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 wriedel@ucsd.edu phone (619) 534-4386 fax (619) 534-0784 ***************************************************** From: N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk (N. MacLeod) There are two programs of which I am aware that should be able to do what you require elegantly and one somewhat klugey workaround. The first is a program by Malcom Ross' call the "Paleogeographic Information System" or PGIS. This is an update of the old Terra Mobilis program that includes lots of useful features lacking in the older version, one of which is the ability to submit a file of coordinate points and get the program to plot these on the appropriate paleogeographic reconstruction. The last I knew Ross was working at Rice University so you might check their web page for his e-mail. [Note to Malcom: If you're still supporting the program and/or have information you'd like to provide to the paleo. community about it I'd be happy to make that info. available on the PaleoNet Pages. Let me know]. The second atlas program with good plotting capability is the Electronic Arts 3D Atlas. This is a home-market interactive atlas that does lots of things professional and advanced student paleontologists won't be interested in. But it also does a few things they will be interested in, including being able to accurately plot points on a nice-looking color map of the physical Earth. The maps even have a limited zoom capability so that you can get maps of your field area in regional detail. 3D Atlas also does paleogeographic reconstructions, but I don't think the coordinate plotting function works in that part of the program. I'd like to know more about the reconstructions that the 3D Atlas uses, but unfortunately they don't provide much documentation in their manual...other than to say that the paleogeographic map part of the program was done in collaboration with University College London. If anyone over at UCL can find out any information about the data that was used for these reconstructions, please post it. My copy of the 3D Atlas came bundled with a new Mac I bought a year or so ago. They probably have a web page. As a last resort, there's always the Xerox PARC Map viewer at: http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com:80/map but this is only for recent Earth maps Norm MacLeod ***************************************************** From: "Dr. Michael S. Stekoll 907-465-6279" <jfmss@acad1.alaska.edu> With respect to mapping programs. The best I have found on the internet is at this address: http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map. There also exists a program for PC's called MAPIT which has resolution to about 0.5 to 1 km. I do not know if the program has been written for Mac's. If you want I can find the contact address for the MAPIT program. I would be interested if you find something with higher resolution. -Mike Stekoll JCSFOS, U of Alaska 11120 Glacier Hwy Juneau, AK 99801 USA JFMSS@ACAD1.ALASKA.EDU Phone: (907)-465-6279 Fax: (907) 465-6447 ***************************************************** From: Annette Olson <olsonam@u.washington.edu> Have you checked out Map-II? I understand that it's a raster-based shareware package. I don't where to get it, but a web-search should turn up an ftp site. Annette Annette M. Olson, Asst. Prof. School of Marine Affairs, Box 355685 Voice: (206) 685-2499 University of Washington FAX: (206) 543-1417 3707 Brooklyn Avenue N.E. E-mail: olsonam@u.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98105-6715 ***************************************************** From: C.Maggs@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK You have probably received this from elsewhere by now. Software is available from Tundra Vole Software tvole@imagi.net ***************************************************** From: Rakesh_Mithal@odp.tamu.edu The website for online map creation is: http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/ It was developed by Martin Weinelt at GEOMAR. He uses GMT software written by Paul Wessel at Hawaii Inst. of Geophysics. Warner Brckmann had informed me about this website. Rakesh. ***************************************************** From: Patrizia Ziveri <zivp@geo.vu.nl> Dear Michael, I have seen your message on the coccolithserver regarding geographical program which allows to plot and print worldwide geographical data (Latitude/Longitude, and an associated numerical value). I am working with PC and I know that Lotus Map(Lotus123R5 1994) links data in your worksheet to graphical representations of that data. Just as you would create a bar chart to illustrate a range of worksheet values, you can create a map that links data in a range to recognizable geographic regions such as states or countries. Probably the program is available also for Mac. Best Regards Patrizia """""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Patrizia Ziveri Geomarine Center Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam de Boelelaan, 1085 1081HV Amsterdam The Netherlands tel. +31 20 4447325 fax +31 20 6462457 ***************************************************** From: nstn3073@fox.nstn.ca (Michael S Henry) Try going to : http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map It is a mapping program on the web that is fairly goos but not the best. Not bad for free!! Michael Henry Petite Riviere, Nova Scotia, Canada ***************************************************** From: wbrueckmann@geomar.de (Warner Brueckmann) the web site you were thinking of is located at http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/ It was developed in our department at GEOMAR. You may create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map will be returned to your browser. The maps are actually created by the "Generic Mapping Tools" (GMT). This means that a PostScript* version is drawn first which may be downloaded to your machine after completion. You can specify map boundaries, projection, and have topographic information, bathymetry, DSDP and ODP sites and plate tectonic features included in your map. Check it out - it is really simple. We have more than 500 people using the site each day over the internet. cheers Warner ---------------------------------------------- Warner Brueckmann (wbrueckmann@geomar.de) +49 (431) 600-2313 (tel) -2941 (fax) ---------------------------------------------- if you dont get a response within a day or so send email to: W.Brueckmann@kiel.netsurf.de ---------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** From: j.young@nhm.ac.uk (Jeremy Young) I think this may be soluble - information courtesy of Neale Monks (NHM), the EvangeList mailing list (evangelist@macway.com), and Kenelm W. Philip (Vole Software)..... Here's another Mac only application. It's a specialized application for museum biologists (and other scientists) who want to make species distribution maps, or any maps showing the location of field sites, etc. RangeMapper 2.3 is a Macintosh program for species distribution mapping and similar tasks. It can plot maps in 7 projections, using low-resolution mapping data files for the world, and higher-res files for North America (including Central America). Higher-res add-on mapping files are available for some areas outside North America (including Australia/New Zealand). Text files of latitude/longitude data may then be plotted to those maps as dots, lines, or 3-D bars whose heights are controlled by a third variable. RangeMapper is currently in use in 20 U.S. states, and 11 countries. In contrast to some other desktop mapping software, RangeMapper is fast, simple, and easy to use. For more information, contact Tundra Vole Software <tvole@polarnet.com>. This is a one-man outfit--please do not inquire unless you have a serious interest in such a program, so the mailbox does not choke! Dr. Jeremy R. Young Tel: +44 (0)171 938 8996 Palaeontology Dept. Fax: +44 (0)171 938 9277 The Natural History Museum INTERNET: j.young@nhm.ac.uk LONDON, SW7 5BD, UK E-Mail Program used: Eudora ***************************************************** From: echarter@vianet.on.ca >GO TO MY WEBSITE..CLICK ON "GEOLOGY AND MINING LINKS" THEN SCROLL DOWN TO "FREE SOFTWARE AND DATA ON GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS" THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING THERE.. AND LEAVE A QUARTER BY THE WINDOW SILL.. "Imagination is the engine of realization and the forerunner of truth" Theodore Drucker: "A New America" mailto:echarter@vianet.on.ca |\/\/\/| The Canadian Mining Newsletter | __ | http://www.vianet.on.ca/pages/echarter/ltrintro.html | _ _| | (o)(o) C - __} E.Charters | ,__| Box 1555 | / <I need a brain transplant, Timmins,ON., /_____\ how was your day?> Canada / \ P4N-7W7 705-264-7110 *****************************************************
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