Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!tramp.Colorado.EDU!hassell From: hassell@news.colorado.edu (Christopher Hassell) Subject: Re: World database Message-ID: Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Nntp-Posting-Host: tramp.colorado.edu Reply-To: hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: Date: 12 Jun 91 08:51:07 GMT Lines: 40 ronald@ecl014.UUCP (Ronald van Eijck) writes: [] Some time ago there where some posts about a world database. If I got the [] right clue this is a lot of data that can be expanded (using a utility) to [] draw a map of the world, or part of it. [] Now what I want to know is how good is it? and does it create only the out- [] lines of the countries or does it contain more info. [] I'm especially interrested in an Island group near Madeira (part of portugal [] west of Africa and north of the Canarie Islands) they are called: Ilhas [] desertas, Ilhas Grande and Bugio. If anybody knows how good the actual maps [] are and also knows if these islands are on it let me know please [] Thanx, [] -- [] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ [] | Ronald van Eijck {eunet!}hp4nl!cbmnlux!ecl014!ronald | [] | | [] | We do the impossible at once for a miracle we need a little more time | [] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I downloded it... and it is pretty cute. Essentailly it has varying levels of detail for the ENTIRE world shoved into several files. It only has the outlines that I can see.. but I myself could not use the topmost file (the most detailed) because it is bigger than a meg! (on a one meg machine with only 880K drives.. this can be a problemo). WHen I ran it for those levels.. it only produced the outlines of countries and such.. and on higher levels of detail it would include islands and such too. I do not know exactly how far it can go. Supposedly it is from the CIA so its detail should be rather nice... but it certainly isn't made as a roadmap! that's my little knowledge -- If you are getting mail from me, my apologies for confusiong you ############## ### C>H> ### boulder.colorado.edu!tramp!hassell #### "Nietzche is dead." - God -- If you are getting mail from me, my apologies for confusiong you ############## ### C>H> ### boulder.colorado.edu!tramp!hassell #### "Nietzche is dead." - God