FYI - there's some talk on the FreeGIS list about "rescuing" the NGA
CDs/data before they are pulled from distribution. It seems to me that
there might be people on this list who have extensive collections and
who might want to jump in on the discussion at FreeGIS. The mailing
list is at
http://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list and the
thread starts here:
http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2005-April/002281.html
Allan
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Frank Warmerdam
> Date: April 29, 2005 12:07:09 EDT
> To: freegis-list_at_intevation.de
> Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Announced NGA Map Sale Change: TCP, ONC,
> JNC, GNC
>
> Sender: freegis-list-bounces_at_intevation.de
>
> On 4/29/05, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard_at_intevation.de> wrote:
>> First we would need to find out about how much data we are looking at.
>> Then we can think about a strategy.
>> Burning DVDs or have two harddisks can be very helpful
>> in many cases.
>> We then would need someone to donate the bandwidth for serving it.
>
> Bernhard,
>
>> From a scan of the NGA catalog it would seem there are approximately:
>
> GNC (1:5000000): 25
> JNC (1:2000000): 108
> ONC (1:1000000): 250
> TPC (1:500000): 700
>
> I'm not clear on how much disk space that amounts ot, but it
> would appear to take appoximately $15000 USD to purchase
> all the datasets. I gather that they have limited supplies and
> are not producing new CDs, so some of these are likely already
> unavailable.
>
> Best regards,
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