Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps

[Mary Ann Horton Gmail <mah@mhorton.net>]

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Hi, Dan,

My plane gets into SeaTac at 11 AM Wed. I'm still at home and can still 
print these tonight.

Thanks,

     Mary Ann

On 7/9/19 5:06 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> Amazingly, I got `leroy` to build on a modern(ish) system. Mary Ann, 
> are you in Renton right now?
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 7:23 PM Mary Ann Horton Gmail <mah@mhorton.net 
> <mailto:mah@mhorton.net>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks, Henry, you found my mistake.
>
>     I've corrected the links to the Sept 1983 maps and verified that
>     the date in the map is September.  Would you please rerun that one? :)
>
>     The extra icons in the legend are nice!
>
>     Yes, I agree doing this on a plotter would be better. I recall
>     Brian Reid doing just that as a product demo of an HP plotter at
>     one Usenix. I had such a poster, I was going to bring it this week
>     but I can't find it. Now I know where he got his data...
>
>     Thanks,
>
>         Mary Ann
>
>     On 7/9/19 3:02 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
>>     On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com
>>     <mailto:henry.r.bent@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 17:39, Grant Taylor via TUHS
>>         <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org <mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>> wrote:
>>
>>             On 7/9/19 2:54 PM, Mary Ann Horton Gmail wrote:
>>             > Any chance you could do the same for this file? It
>>             looks smaller, but
>>             > it's a couple weeks newer so it's possible it's somehow
>>             better.
>>
>>             While searching for the 2nd article for the May, I found
>>             the following
>>             articles:
>>
>>             Link - Usenet graphic map of North America, part 1 of 2
>>               -
>>             https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=net.sources/ZoPcfdMPIzQ/pEPpCV6m77QJ
>>
>>             Link - Usenet graphic map of North America, part 2 of 2
>>               -
>>             https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=net.sources/cE_tkMNKZ_U/JoR7KGTJ_3YJ
>>
>>             The dates of these articles are September 21, 1983.
>>
>>
>>
>>             -- 
>>             Grant. . . .
>>             unix || die
>>
>>
>>         Thanks Grant, Mary Ann found what I needed and I'm working
>>         away.  Somehow in going back over what I used to build a
>>         working setup I managed to break my working setup, so I'm
>>         trying to fix that to get the next set of files output.
>>
>>         -Henry
>>
>>
>>     OK, here's the second set of Usenet maps, again in raw plot and
>>     SVG form.  The only difference with the "g" maps, produced with
>>     the gmap.leroy script, seems to be the addition of a few
>>     graphical icons.
>>
>>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6PU1NJv8mdVr1SQsQUDnUjNlq6N2bvv/view?usp=sharing
>>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JpbMTzhmJD-amLCpYOWMPQCHyCsrC_ck/view?usp=sharing
>>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WRhiPTj1URUGNuxCh-8ERuK0FnQ_i1tk/view?usp=sharing
>>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plhCfaP1Uyxu5wAgtQEyPEA88r8JLHIW/view?usp=sharing
>>
>>     I'm pretty sure this is how they would have looked originally,
>>     cluttered as they are.  The nice thing about them being in a
>>     vector format, though, is that you could blow them up to poster
>>     size if you wanted to.
>>
>>     -Henry
>

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