Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!daimi!pilgrim From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: World database Message-ID: <1991Jun12.235701.6805@daimi.aau.dk> Date: 12 Jun 91 23:57:01 GMT References: Sender: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark 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. The wdb program itself, and its datafiles, are not what you need.(The most detailed one is quite detailed, but could be more detailed. I wish there was a 2 MB file too). But, as the other man said, there is something about CIA. Apparantly, CIA was some of the first people(?) in the world to put the world (or at least a model/map of it) on computers/store it digitally. These data are extremely accurate and detailed. Those data have been distributed by CIA into the public domain, for whatever use you might think of. And we are not talking of one or two megabyte of data, but more... From these data, subsets were made for the world data base program, to use on micros, reducing the size to 1 mb for the most detailed file. These files should be identical be it IBM P* or Amiga or Atari or Mac(?). But.... Even though I don't want to fill my harddisk with hundreds of megabyte of all the world(there is not room for a 100 anyway), I would like more detailed maps of parts of the world... And as those data were in the publice domain, where are they? Were they announced public domain and then deleted? Shame, shame. I have asked before and ask again: Do not anyone interest themselves in their part of the world and join me in the search for its description? I hope that anymous ftp will one day bless me with these data, but I have not heard anybody mention anything... PS: The wdb thing includes source. That means a possibility to read the format of the file, and find it out oneself(If you want to treat those islands yourself) -- From the notorious Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department Bed og arbejd ! University of Aarhus, Jylland (!) (Pray and work!) AMIGA! pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.