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Take the Trivia Challenge!
Answers at bottom of page
1. What two developable surfaces are most
commonly used for mapping?
2. Which U.S. state has the smallest NAD 27 to NAD 83 shift?
3. What projection, when used to map the entire world,
yields a shape appropriate for St. Valentine's Day?
Your Comments Please...
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Products
The latest Hawkeye includes a new command to insert
Georeferenced Tiff files. Since the appropriate location is encoded in the georeferenced Tiff file,
Hawkeye can automatically place, scale, and rotate the image. This can save
hours of error prone manual manipulation of coordinate data.
Tiff's georeferenced with a world file, or georeferenced internally, can be used. Sorry, but we couldn't get this to work reliably in release 14.
So this feature is only available for AutoACD 2000 users.
Download Demo
Trivia Answers:
1. Cylinder and Conic
2. Michigan
3. Bonne. It has a heart shape!
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MGRS Conversion Utility
GIS Tips
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Recent Topics @
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Map Projections Forum
-GNIS
Lat/Long Coordinates
-WGS84
And "The World Standard
-Mean
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GIS Resources
Geocomm.com's Software Top Ten Downloads
http://software.geocomm.com/topten.html
GeoGratis is a web and file transfer protocol (ftp) site that distributes geospatial data of Canada.
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/frames.html
Map Stats. Get information on: Agriculture, Population, Crime, and the Environment for your state or county in the U.S.
http://www.fedstats.gov/mapstats/
Javascript Great Circle Calculator
http://www.best.com/~williams/gccalc.htm
Graphic Map's, World Atlas and Geography Facts
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
State Department: The Geographic Learning Site (geography information, maps, and more!
http://geography.state.gov/htmls/statehome.html
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