A couple of weeks ago I asked for help locating a mid-decade version of the precinct boundaries in the 104th state congressional district of Illinois so that I could set up an exercise for a Speech Communications class. I got two great responses for what I asked for, but it turns I asked for the wrong thing. Thank you for sending those files, guys. After a day of internet searching and tracking Illinois officials, I learned that Election Data Services of Virginia was creating current precinct boundaries and boundaries of the 104th district. Despite the snow storm in DC, Kim Brace was able to send me the ArcView files Election Data Services created for Champaign, Douglas and Ford counties. I translated them into Mapinfo files using the Universal translator, but unfortunately I did not read the materials first. I assumed the ArcView files were already in Lat/Long. Universal translator assumes they are Non-earth. My boundaries didn't match up. Jeff and Tim at Mapinfo Tech Support were very helpful in determining the mistake and in getting me files useable for the presentation. Thanks to you all, the presentation went over well yesterday and I'll have 15 groups of Speech Com students attempting to analyze trends in voting with Mapinfo. I did have one technical issue arise however. The machine in my office differs from the machines in the Lab in two respects -- I have a dual processor; the lab machines have a single processor; otherwise the hardware is the same -- except I have a Evans & Southerland video board; the lab has 3DLabs GMX2000 boards. We all have the same brand of monitor. We are running NT 4. Within the control panel, we all had settings of 1280x1024. I created the workspace for the demo with 9 panels. The last row (3) of panels was smaller than the other two rows. All three rows showed up on my monitor (with the Evans and Southerland video board) but only 2 rows showed up on the monitors in the lab. I changed the settings in the lab to 1600x1280 and then all three panels showed up. I thought that a pixel was a pixel was a pixel and that 1280x1024 was always the same size though the quality of the image could be different from machine to machine. What's up? Carolyn S. White, PhD Program Coordinator Office of Computing and Communications for the Social Sciences (OCCSS) Assistant Professor, Sociology Room 212 Lincoln Hall Voice: 217-333-6751 702 S. Wright Street Fax: 217-333-2869 Urbana, Il 61801 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Plan Ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah started building the Ark" Ron Fields ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
