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- From: n3x092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Geoff Lloyd Burian)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases,comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Mapping software for Mac -- experience anyone?
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:32:17 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- I am in the process of investigating software which can link address
- information in a database with physical location on a map. I would like
- to use it to, given a list of addresses, show the locations of these
- addresses on a map, and for each address, be able to determine the closest
- location to it amongst a group of locations distributed throuout the map.
- (For instance, given an address I would like to find the closest
- restaurant to this address among a group of restaurants.)
-
- I read the recent Byte article about mapping software (January 1992), and
- noticed GeoQuery 3.0. Anyone used it? What types of things have you used
- it for? Is it fully programmable, along the lines of a high-level language
- database (e.g. FoxBase, Omnis 7).
-
- Any system that I would put into use would have to have data available on
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada, the surrounding metropolitan area and it would
- be good to have data for the whole of southern B.C. and Vancouver Island
- as well. Is there ANY mapping program for the Mac (or even, yuck, DOS)
- that can be configured with detailed data from these areas?
-
- Thanks if you can help me out.
-
- Geoff Burian
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- Geoff Burian Computer Science Undergrad
- n3x092@rick.cs.ubc.ca The University of British Columbia
- Vancouver, Canada
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