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From: clh@tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: WANTED: maps
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.155204.26170@tfic.bc.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 91 15:52:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.201747.23217@cec1.wustl.edu> <91079.190330UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: clh@tacitus.UUCP (Chris Hermansen)
Organization: Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants
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In article <91079.190330UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>
>In article <1991Mar18.201747.23217@cec1.wustl.edu>, ksr1492@cec1.wustl.edu
>(Kevin Scott Ruland) says:
>
>>I am looking for maps of various parts of the world (any region is
>>fine).  I would like them to be stored as a point-vector list.
>>If anyone knows of an archive site with such files, or has some
>>please mail me asap.
>
>Try the CIA World Map data, available on (really) Larry's Hot Tub--402-
>571-4316.
>
>Actually, I am also interested in this, espceciall the Defense Mapping Agency
>format.
>
>       lee

Try your local USGS office; you can get 7.5" x 7.5" digital maps from them
in an ASCII format called DLG-3 that's pretty easy to sort out.  It even
contains some spatial relationship information (called topology in the
industry), and attributes.

Also, ESRI in Redlands is working on the Digital Map of the World Project
(don't know the originating agency) but it is supposed to be released 
fairly soon on CD-ROM, I believe.

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