🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:
>
> For simple mapping tasks, ESRI's ArcExplorer (Java version)
> runs under Linux.  ArcExplorer 4 even has an installer and
> instructions for Linux, although the installer is probably
> targeted at people who have used that same installer for other
> ESRI products on other Unix systems.  Anyway, AE4 works well,
> albeit with limited features.  The biggest limitation is that
> it doesn't alter the projection of the data.

	I'm so clueless I can't even tell if we're talking about
the same thing!

	I have a Garmin etrex vista GPS. I'm trying to use it,
*not* to navigate (well, hardly ever), but to record points and
routes I already know, and occasionally new ones I discover in
the process.

	I interface it (under W98, alas!) with the following:

	Garmin's own MapSource Topo and MapSource Metroguide
	DeLorme TopoUSA 3.0 and 4.0
	DeLorme 3-D TopoQuads (TN)
	National Geographic Mid-Atlantic USA (really Topo!)
	Maptech Appalachian Trail (the Virginias), which includes
		Terrain Navigator

	I then manipulate this data, as best I can manage, to
study it, to print it out, and to email it or (mostly)
screenshots of it to others.

	I do this both to further my and others' hunting, and to
assist in the process of seeking a house to buy in Western VA as
soon as my wife joins me in retirement. (So the ability to search
snail addresses and pinpoint them on street maps or topo maps is
useful, even if that may sometimes have to be done by uploading
points from one program to the GPS and downloading from there to
another program.)

	I've got this sneakin' hunch youss guyss're talkin' stuff
way beyond my subtechnoid imagination, let alone grasp.

	And I suppose, alas!, that probably answers the basic
question, doesn't it? Maybe five years from now ....

	But thanks, anyway!
--
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
retiree & linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2
Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.