From: Troy Gustavel [troy_nevermore@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:39 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - CC2 Maps Oooh yes, please do, that will save me SO much work --- Joe Doyle wrote: > Yes I have the whole thing converted into CC2 format. I took the big > map, scanned a bitmap and traced the general outline of the world > (polar caps etc) and then corrected the grid for a constant linear > measurment on longitude and latitude lines. I then imported bitmaps > of the smaller regional maps, rescaled them to fit the general scale > and traced then in all of their glory. I even came up with a special > catalog of symbols. Later I added coloration for mountainous-rough > regions, desert terrain and savanna. I still intend to use the > contour lines to create a colorized relief map (red for high points > and blue for low points) as well as include a set of underwater > contours or at least relief shading. (I've been busy on other > projects lately.) If anyone wants a copy to play with, I can zip the > file and attach it to a posting (its 512kb in size.) > > Joe D. > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now! > http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.html > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > ===== Troy Gustavel 5825 Bolender Rd. Akron, OH 44319 (330)882 5468 Troy_Nevermore@Yahoo.com "Once upon a midnight dreary..." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.