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[Casey Claiborne]

Hello and thank you for helping me :-)

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>> (State)LOCATIONS - Texas, California, New York, etc.
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>Again, these are directory names, and must follow appropriate UNIX naming 
>conventions. Whether or not you could use a single state for each 
>LOCATION depends upon your map projection. For state plane, this would 
>not work, as many states have more than one zone. For example, Arkansas 
>would require two distinct LOCATIONS in state plane, as there are two 
>zones. UTM has similar problems, depending on the state. If you have not 
>already done so, you need to learn about datums, ellipsoids & geoids, and 
 
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>projections - this is true for any GIS system.
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Where could I locate such information? 

Casey


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