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From: maclenna@sunybcs.uucp (Mark MacLennan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: World map (now: WDBII)
Summary: source of digital map data
Keywords: WDII, map database
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Date: 16 Sep 88 05:08:55 GMT
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For those who are interested, a public domain map database of the world
(coastlines, state and county boundaries, rivers, lakes) is available on
5 MS-DOS 360K floppies from Micro Doc, 3108 Jackson St., Bellevue, NE 68005.
It is a reduced and compressed version of World Data Bank II files and
contains some 178,000 points.  A fortran (I think) program is included on
the disk to extract the coordinates.  It cost $10 last year but you might
want to write and see if this data is still available.
This item was written up in the July 1987 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics
and Applications (page 73).  I would imagine that there must be other
sources of this data out there ...