Pete Lindsley said:
>The Global Mapper link in Mark's note apparently today is a
redirect to something else, which looks suspiciously like an
"eastern" web site. A few hours later it just gave an error "Internal
Server Error" http://www.sec-center.com/vb/ leads to: something
else. Virus perhaps? Hopefully they will get rid of the bad stuff so
we can see their web site.
That is very bizarre. I cut and pasted that URL
<http://www.globalmapper.com/> from the Global Mapper web page that I
had just opened on my computer. I just tried it again and it works
fine. I wonder if Pete has a virus that is usurping URLs, which I
think someone mentioned recently. Or maybe the Global Mapper site
was temporarily hit by something. In any event, if my URL doesn't
work or looks suspicious, just type in the characters or Google
Global Mapper and you should get their site as one of the first
couple that come up. I find their software, even the somewhat
limited free version, to be the best for using USGS topo map TIFF
images. (One annoying limitation of the free version is that
printing and saving views are disabled. This is easily circumvented,
however, by capturing a screen image ("print screen" key on a PC) of
the view you want to print, and then pasting it into an empty image
in a photo program like the excellent and free IrfanView
<http://www.irfanview.com/>. You can then manipulate that captured
image to crop out borders, etc., leaving you a simple topo snapshot
that can be printed and saved.)
Mark Minton
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