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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
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Terrain Navigator Pro by Maptech
Terrain Navigator Pro has long been our source for USGS maps and aerial maps. These maps are difficult to find in many places and expensive for any organization that uses them in the quantities we require. So, MapTech's early and continued support has pretty much made our work possible. Their products are low-cost and highly reliable, and we're obliged by their support. We use Terrain Navigator Pro and with it we're able to overlay basic USGS maps with the output of any of our GPS devices. Recently, MapTech added GoogleEarth to Terrain Navigator Pro and we can now draw lines and areas, and place points in one or the other of these potent programs and have them appear in Terrain Navigator Pros 1:24K and 1:100K topos, as well as their 1:12K and 1:3.6K othos, and on GoogleEarth. Imagine how handy this is for finding old roads. With the least hesitation we can assert that Terrain Navigator Pro is the best product we've found for our work.
http://www.maptech.com
Carolina Maps
Carolina Maps By Mail is the sole source for the Garland Stout historic maps of North Carolina Counties among other things. He has purchased numerous historic surveyor document collections and has large numbers of original map drafts for many places in the Carolinas and is particularly strong in the Charlotte area when it comes to surveyor maps. Spend some time looking over www.mapsbymail.com and make inquiries to
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Chuck Ketchie, the proprietor of Maps By Mail is a leading molinary historian too, and he has provided invaluable advice to the TPA over the years. So, if you have a mill site to report, tell us about it, then tell Maps By Mail. We go through a powerful lot of maps in this project and Maps By Mail never fails to support us. Support them.
ESRI
ESRI, producer of the most used GIS software in the world has supported the Trading Path projects from the beginning with free copies of their software. Beaten Paths was created over an ESRI generated map, and all of the data we gather flows into ESRI's GIS eventually. We are grateful for their early and sustained support.
http://www.esri.com
The North Carolina Humanities Council
The North Carolina Humanities Council supported the Trading Path project with a major grant to fund production and distribution of our first generation "Beaten Paths" poster-map of the Trading Paths and to offset some of the cost of our First Sunday Hikes. We are all in their debt for making the long-delayed map a reality. They have also made Tom Magnuson a member of their speakers bureau and thereby facilitated the spread of our message in North Carolina.
http://www.nchumanities.org
WAOLabs
Shawn Smith or WAOLabs is an old, old friend of the TPA. When we first began using full-blown GIS we found our computer inadequate to the job and Shawn bailed us out with a very nice dual pentium machine and a 21" monitor. Recently, he upgraded that donation with a 30" Apple monitor. We are in the tall rows now.
So, if you or your organization needs computer components, please, give some thought to using WAOLabs as your sourcing agent. If a component can be found somewhere in the world, WAO can find it. If you are already a WAOLab's client, please, take the time to thank Shawn for supporting our efforts.
http://waolabs.biz/
ThinkHost.com
In 2004 it became clear that we would need to move our website to a more manageable software package and a more flexible host site. Imagine our surprise when ThinkHost asked us to apply for a free web hosting account. Then imagine our surprise when they gave us a free hosting account because of the importance of our work. You cannot imagine how valuable this site has proven since then. Please, if you or someone you know needs a web presence, give Thinkhost consideration. They are our friends.
http://www.thinkhost.com
Pace Development Group
Pace Development, you may recall, engaged the TPA to study the history of the land where they are building "Lawson" a large development in Union County, NC. Since submitting that report we have held a first Sunday hike on the Lawson land and we are now delighted to have this former client as a corporate sponsor. Visit their website and see the work they're doing at "Lawson" and elsewhere. If you know Stephen or Brian Pace, the father and son team who run the Pace Development Group, tell them you appreciate their ongoing support of the TPA.
http://pacedevelop.com/About/index.cfm
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