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From: arie@extro (Markus Arie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Looking for sources of global/country maps
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Date: 1 Mar 90 00:33:06 GMT
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From article <17929@rpp386.cactus.org>, by woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker):
> In article <1990Feb13.222750.1982@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, sheppamj@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Matthew Sheppard) writes:
>> I was wondering if any of y'all could tell me where (or possibly mail
>> me) the sources (postscript or dmp or even GIF!) of the outlines for
>> country or global maps.  
>> 
> I believe that Scott Guthrie, of the Austin Codeworks has the world, and
> us, and maybe others.  He advertises in Dr.Dobbs journal a lot.  I
> have his BBS number handy...1-512-258-8831
> 
> Good BBS, and has a list of his stuff that is for sale.  He sells 'C'
> stuff almost exclusively, but he also has data files like you are looking
> for.
> 
> Cheers
> Woody
> H
> 
>> 

Well the best source of maps is the CIA world map data base, they give you
the points of the whole world in latitude and longitude, and you can blow
up any portion (They have some neat sewers in vietnam). I have a tape, but
I won't have access to it for a while (5 meg of data) I heard that there
is a file in simtel20.arpa of 1 meg that is a lower resolution version.

You can contact kpeterson@simtel20.arpa, or use a listserv to find out what
the name of the file is.

If you get it to work in postscript I'd be interested.

Arie   VE3JLM / 4X6JO    Computer Engineer, University of Sydney