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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: maps of continents or world
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Date: 19 Feb 89 04:01:08 GMT
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A crude map of the world can be found in "The World Digitized", which I
nabbed from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by anonymous FTP (PD1:<MSDOS.WORLDMAP>).
It contains only national boundaries, not states, but is complete as far
as it goes.  If you can't get to SIMTEL20, I can give you the USMail address
of the originator on request.

It consists of files in seven subdirectories (guess why) with coastlines,
islands, lakes, and national boundaries.  Note that a nation's polygon must
be derived from the adjoining coastline in addition to the political data;
that is, the data are lines, not polygons, but it's a starting point.

I've been killing my weekends making a display program under Presentation
Manager (OS/2) GPI; I've got Mercator going, and I can zoom around in the
null projection.  If this is remotely interesting to anyone, I'd be just
tickled to death to try it out on some *people*: email me to ask for a source.

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
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