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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: DTMs
Message-ID: <3021@eos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 21:35:42 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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You know what you should do: every one on the net should write their
Congressmen and ask for the USGS to provide SAMPLE digital terrain maps
on the USGS Internet hosts for anonymous FTP.  I seriously doubt you could
get more than samples since the database problem means warehouses of data,
[can you guess how many MBs of ASCII (or non-ASCII) data that would be?]
but we could pressure for sample DTMs.  But it would take many letters,
I think it could be done.  SO long as we didn't strain USGS disk drives
(consider how infrequently files would be accessed, a few initially, then
lots less).

Another gross generalization from

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