Anita,

If all you want to do is plot proveniences on a map, there are some cheap
alternatives to GIS.  For plotting site locations on USGS maps, I routinely
use AllTopo, which uses packaged map files on a set of CDs (around $100).  For
site-specific maps, engineers' maps, etc. a program called Fugawi (also around
$100) will allow you to scan any map you might already have (provided you can
define 3 locations for calibration) and plot data.  SURFER (around $400?) will
allow you to produce pretty good site maps with provenience plots -- but has a
bit of a learning curve).  For simply plotting proveniences within an X/Y grid
(with no base map), you can use some of the spreadsheet and graphing
programs.  Hope this helps.

Dave McMahan

Anita Cohen-Williams wrote:

> This has been asked before....
>
> We are looking for a GIS software package that will allow us to input
> proveniences and map them on a site map. Any suggestions?
>
> ArcView is out of our price range, I cannot find a price on MapInfo, and I
> can't tell it Microsoft's MapPoint would do what we want.
>
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