glen@proexam.UUCP (Glen Brydon) (02/21/89)
I have a personal interest in integrating the various kinds of databases available for making atlases. At my company we have a modest attempt at keeping online a simple file of 5-digit zipcodes. While I would like to use the zip+4 data, We currently do not have the space to keep it around. Perhaps there is a site out there with such space which could serve as a resource for others who might need limited parts of such a database. The same goes for U.S. Geological Survey data. They will sell tapes will tons of data, but I only need small portions of that. I would like to know if there is a site which could be polled to extract such. Thanks for any help you can supply, Glen Brydon (glen@proexam) [I don't hav anything on zip codes, and here is the best I could do on maps. I hope this helps. tww] NM panarea.usc.edu EN crum@cse.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Tue Nov 1 19:42:40 PST 1988 TM PST TT Archive for "maps" AD crum@cse.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) MA CS Dept SAL-200; University of Southern California; LA, CA 90089-0782 CO ftp;ftp;panarea.usc.edu;128.125.3.54;/pub/map; IX ftp;README;1;881001;;additional information about the archive KW maps DE Intended for geographic information, started with Digital Elevation Model DE (terrain) data from USGS. Maps in other formats and even remotely related DE models of geometrical objects are welcome. The archive was formerly on tethys.usc.edu, and before that on wasatch.utah.edu. I bought a cute little 80M drive ($500) for things like the archive, so it will probably be stable for at least 4 years now. If my solid modeling lab gets a NeXT computer as I expect, space will not be a problem. I could keep the archive on 256M optical platters (not always available), and service requests on demand. For the price I paid for the 80M drive the archive could be (500/50)*(256M) = over 2.5G bytes in capacity, but offline (and much easier to maintain than magnetic tapes because of access time). Here is the contents of the README file I put in the archive: --- Map Archive README file written Tue Nov 1 19:42:40 PST 1988 by crum@panarea.usc.edu An Internet archive for maps of geographic-scale maps has been set up, starting with data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Cartographic Information Center (NCIC), specifically a map of terrain in USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) format. The archive is on host panarea.usc.edu [128.125.3.54], in anonymous FTP directory pub/map. Gary Crum <crum@cse.usc.edu> is maintainer. The pub/map directory is writeable by anonymous ftp. Approximately 50M bytes are available for the map archive as of this writing. Send mail to the maintainer, crum@cse.usc.edu, to update the INDEX file. A convention is that formats be described in README-format files. --- Gary