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- WORLD DATA BANK -- Amiga Version
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- Volume 1: Source, Executables, and Data File #5 9-89
- Volume 2: Data File #4, Data File #3 9-89
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- WDB is a project which began with geographical survey data col-
- lected by the CIA and released a few years ago to the public domain under
- the Freedom Of Information Act. The quantity of data was staggering (en-
- compassing many, many reels of 9-track tape), and it remained for one
- Fred Pospichal of Bellevue, Nebraska to reduce the data to microcomputer
- proportions (i.e.: five, count 'em, FIVE MS-DOS disks worth) by filtering
- all but every nth value.
-
- Here now is a version of the World Data Bank for the Amiga, using
- the same data as the IBM version (though in proper High-order/Low-order
- format for the 68000), and two programs with which to view it. One sets
- up a standard Mercator projection, and the other a "satellite view" from
- space. While these are not blazingly fast (yet), they are several orders
- of magnitude faster than the earliest versions. Similarly, they are not
- polished efforts, but at this point they finally have user interfaces that
- now allow them to be passed around for public viewing. Warranty? What
- warranty?
-
- The main data file is broken into 4 subsets, each of which provides
- progressively coarser resolution, along with progressively less memory
- requirement and progressively more speed. The data file you choose to use
- will therefore be determined by available memory, time, and interest in
- detail. The full data set will require at least 1.5 Meg to run (the data
- file itself is over 1 Meg). The smallest data sets should run in 512k.
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