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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Using GIS to map imaginary worlds |
| Date: |
12/01/2005 01:45:01 PM |
| From: |
Pat Waggaman |
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Boooorrrriiiing, you'd fall off the edge of somnolescence.
We already have the blue marble, the gentleman can have an imaginary marble=
:-)
Pat
At 16:16 01-12-2005, Kevin Murphy wrote:
>Hello a/ALL,
>
>I wonder, in an imaginary world.....why not keep things FLAT ???
>
>-K.Murphy
>
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> >>> Pat Waggaman <waggaman@marimsys.com> 12/01/05 2:07 PM >>>
>Manifold will deal with the creation of the
>imaginary datum and projections - I don't think
>that will be much of a problem. Yes, it will
>take you the best part of a week on the startup,
>assuming that you know a bit about GIS.
>
>Best part, you can do this with the software and
>have explored *maybe* 5% of its capabilities, and
>it costs $245.00 www.manifold.net.
>
>Pat
>
>Thos. E. Waggaman, III (Pat)
>Director
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>At 16:52 24-11-2005, Mike Parkes wrote:
>
> >This will probably seem like a very weird request*
> >
> >What I am interested in doing is using GIS
> >software to map an imaginary planet.
> >
> >My starting point is a number of raster images
> >in different projections that cover parts of the
> >planet (e.g. Robinson projection for a world
> >map, different projection for larger-scale
> >maps). I want to be able to integrate and
> >overlay these images, then create vector
> >shapefiles. I'm only concerned with surface
> >mapping (no elevation modeling), at least for now.
> >
> >The imaginary world is perfectly spherical, but
> >a different size from Earth. Hence, to
> >georeference my images, I need a GIS program =
> that allows user-defined datums.
> >
> >I have been investigating the GeoTiff file
> >format, and (through the Listgeo and geotifcp
> >utilities), it has all the machinery that I need
> >to create an imaginary datum, a map projection
> >and to attach the datum and projection to an
> >image. However, I haven't been able to find a
> >software package that can actually interpret =
> and make use of this information.
> >
> >Any ideas? If my needs can't be met with a
> >single program, are there a variety of tools
> >that I could cobble together? I'm on a low
> >budget, so I'm looking for free or inexpensive
> >software (maximum of $200 or so).
> >
> >Thanks for any help!
> >
> >
> >-Mike
> >
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