fay@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Peter Fay) (02/13/89)
I am looking for any type of descriptions of political maps of the
continents or the world: x,y coordinates of the outlines of countries;
bit-maps; any other intelligible representation.
I can't get through to albanycs.albany.edu for some reason, so I don't
know if there already exists something there. Any help appreciated.
peter fay
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peter fay
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UUCP: {bu-cs,decvax,necntc,talcott}!encore!fayjxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein) (02/19/89)
A crude map of the world can be found in "The World Digitized", which I nabbed from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by anonymous FTP (PD1:<MSDOS.WORLDMAP>). It contains only national boundaries, not states, but is complete as far as it goes. If you can't get to SIMTEL20, I can give you the USMail address of the originator on request. It consists of files in seven subdirectories (guess why) with coastlines, islands, lakes, and national boundaries. Note that a nation's polygon must be derived from the adjoining coastline in addition to the political data; that is, the data are lines, not polygons, but it's a starting point. I've been killing my weekends making a display program under Presentation Manager (OS/2) GPI; I've got Mercator going, and I can zoom around in the null projection. If this is remotely interesting to anyone, I'd be just tickled to death to try it out on some *people*: email me to ask for a source. -Jim Hickstein jxh@cup.portal.com ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com
Michael_Anthony_DeTomaso@cup.portal.com (02/22/89)
Hi Jim, I have been looking for WORLD2.ARC from a set of 8, I thought I go at
wound up being a bummer, a file called AF1.MP1 faild the CRC chec itof
- take care M.D.
/esjxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein) (02/24/89)
> Hi Jim, I have been looking for WORLD2.ARC from a set of 8, I thought I go at > wound up being a bummer, a file called AF1.MP1 faild the CRC chec itof > - take care M.D. > /es AF1.MP1 is, indeed, one of the files (part of AFrica) in "The World Digitized", which is on SIMTEL20. I've never seen a distribution of several ARC files, though. Better luck next time!