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- From: spl@pitstop.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: looking for world bank
- Keywords: cartography, world bank
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:47:22 GMT
- References: <dennis.715512769@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> <1992Sep3.175830.24770@cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep3.175830.24770@cs.ubc.ca> tessmann@cs.ubc.ca (Markus Tessmann) writes:
- >>I am currently looking into 'computer assisted cartography' and I have
- >>heard of a data base called 'world bank'. Can anyone tell me where I
- >>can get hold of it (If it is at all possible), and can anyone tell me
- >>what exactly it contains and how to make use of it.
- >
- >>Any form of assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
- >
- >Me too. Please post this info.
-
- It's in the comp.graphics resource listing:
-
- ...
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- d. CIA World Map II
- [ NOTE: this database is quite out of date, and not topologically structured.
- If you need a standard for world cartographic data, wait for the
- Digital Chart of the World. This 1:1M database has been produced from
- the Defense Mapping Agency's ONCs and will be available, together with
- searching and viewing software, on a number of CD-ROMs later this summer. ]
-
- Check into HANAUMA.STANFORD.EDU and UCSD.EDU (see ftp list above)
- The CIA database consists of coastlines, rivers and political boundaries
- in the form of line strokes. Also on hanauma.stanford.edu is a 720x360
- array of elevation data, containing one ieee floating point number for
- every half degree longitude and latitude.
-
- A program for decoding the database, mfil, can be found on the machine
- pi1.arc.umn.edu (137.66.130.11).
- There's another program, which reads a compressed CIA Data Bank file and
- builds a PHIGS hierachical structure. It uses a PHIGS extension known as
- polyline sets for performance, but you can use regular polylines. Ask
- Joe Stewart <joes@lpi.liant.com>.
- The raw data at Stanford require the vplot package to be able to view it.
- (was posted in comp.sources.unix). To be more exact, you'll have to
- compile just the libvplot routines, not the whole package.
-
- ...
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- spl
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