Hi,

Dr Detlef Deumlich has contributed some data files for the German
soil classification schemes. These files can be used with TAL for
Windows. You can get the zipped file (2k) directly at:

http://members.nbci.com/drsoil/ka4.zip

Once downloaded, unzip the archive and store the 3 files any where
you like, but preferably together with other scheme data files
(*.dat). By default, scheme data files are all stored in "c:\program
files\talwin\schemes\".

I have also updated the TAL C++ source code to ver. 1.1, and made
some minor changes to the TAL website. However, at the moment, my web
host NBCi is, as usual, mucking about with their server (which can
take 1 week), so TAL website is either down or takes forever to load.
I think this only highlights the importance of me moving the TAL
website back to my university server (which, unfortunately, solves
one problem but raises another: my university server is maintained by
over-protective and over-zealous network adminstrators). Anyway, I
will definitely let you all know when TAL moves site.

If anyone wishes to contribute other classification schemes,
please let me know and I will add them to the site and inform other
users. In particular, I am looking for the Netherlands scheme. I do
have their charts but some borders are vague (e.g., is it 17 or
18%?).

I am working on a minor update to TAL for Windows (probably
version 4.01), but its release will probably happened after I have
moved TAL website perhaps in July.

I will keep you all posted. Thanks.

Regards,
Chris