Location, Information & Travel
A bright laugh on this cold, windy New York day.
But I Feel a Lot Higher Than That
Wifey turning from looking at ocean: This is so nice. What elevation are we at?
Hubby: … Seriously?
Wifey: Yes.
Hubby: Um… Sea level, honey.
Wifey: Oh. Yeah.
–Ka’anapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii
Overheard by: D-Rock
via Overheard at the Beach, Nov 21, 2007
Quick post here.
I just wasted about and hour or two because of commas in the row names in a dbf imported into ESRI.
I got “unknown errors” and lots and lots of crashes. But the funny thing was I could display and manipulate the data to my hearts content as long as it was an “Event”.
As soon as I wanted to make my XY events more permanent - BOOM - and a lot of keyboard slamming ensued.
So my question to ESRI is 1) Why let it work at all with invalid characters in the Row names and 2) How about giving me a clue on the error - unknown error is a cop out.
Thats’ all - gotta go fix my personal life now.
While trying to figure out spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, and geoids I came across this page: http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/index.html
It’s the DoD unclassified coordinate transformation tool called GEOTRANS.
I haven’t used it, but hey, another tool is another tool.
The NGA Coordinate Systems Analysis page has some links to other cool tools and reference information.
