bldrnr@Apple.COM (Brian Hurley) (11/15/88)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc. Cupertino,CA
Hi,
Some time ago someone made a collection of Digital Elevation Maps
availible to the net, I spend about 8 hours copying the maps over a S L O W
net and much to my dismay, the files were copied incorrectly. If anyone else
out therer in net land has copies of DEMs from the USGS (in either the DEM
format or the older tape format) please E-mail me I would like to get them
restored. My understanding is that though the data is sold by the USGS($75/per
7.5 minute quadrangle) that it is not copyrighted. (If this is an incorrect
understanding, save the flames for someone who deserves it.)
If the original poster is still out there: Can you tell us where the maps
went? Does anyone else have maps of this type. If I get enough info I will
post a list of who has what and where.
Thanx,
Brian Hurley
bldrnr@apple.com
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding) (11/15/88)
In a recent article bldrnr@Apple.COM (Brian Hurley) wrote: >[...] My understanding is that though the data is sold by the USGS($75/per >7.5 minute quadrangle) that it is not copyrighted. (If this is an incorrect >understanding, save the flames for someone who deserves it.) > Brian Hurley > bldrnr@apple.com >/ UUCP: bldrnr@apple.UUCP CSNET: bldrnr@apple.CSNET \ A colleague of mine just visited the USGS office in Golden, CO, and found that they have very recently changed their pricing on DEM's. The price is now $7/map (either 7.5 minute or 2 degree quadrangles, depending on the resolution), with a minimum order of $90. He has a whole stack of info on it, if people want to know more, write me. As far as I know the data is not copyrighted. Oh, and I think that the DEM archive is back on the net. The FTP address was posted to 'comp.archives' a few weeks ago. ++Eric Fielding fielding@zircon.tn.cornell.edu
crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (11/15/88)
In article <20601@apple.Apple.COM> bldrnr@Apple.COM (Brian Hurley) writes: >If the original poster is still out there: Can you tell us where the maps >went? Does anyone else have maps of this type. If I get enough info I will I moved my map archive from wasatch.utah.edu to panarea.usc.edu [128.165.3.54]. A README on wasatch indicates this, so I assume you merely forgot the hostname. See my posting to comp.archives for more information about the "new" archive. In particular, the files map/dem/MAP.N0009338 and map/dem/MAP.N0009338.Z contain the USGS NCIC DEM map of the Ft. Douglas quad, the latter compressed (around 280K bytes while the uncompressed file contains over 1M bytes). That "files [from my archive] were copied incorrectly" is news to me. Do you mean the DEM map that I purchased (and read in with the ansitape program for UNIX) or the files in the older terrain format, contributed by Thorsten von Eicken of AT&T Bell Laboratories? Gary Crum crum@cse.usc.edu, crum@wasatch.utah.edu