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Subject: Re: vmap1 - any news? Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gis.freegis Date: 2008-04-22 20:56:22 GMT (37 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours and 41 minutes ago) Hello, Try the links found at http://www.gisuser.com/content/category/10/84/41/50/0/ http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/vmap1_leg end.html And http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rast_roam .html Glenn \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Glenn Letham Founder, Managing Editor Spatial Media LLC RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gisusercom editor <at> gisuser.com ph: 1-970-690-3417 Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gletham Register for the GISuser Today Newsletter http://www.gisuser.com/subscribe.html GISuser.com "Taking You Beyond The Map" www.Amerisurv.com - for land surveyors www.SymbianOne.com - mobile users & developers www.LBSzone.com - mobile geospatial http://gisuser.blogspot.com - Anything Geospatial! Interested in Advertising? Ping adsales <at> gisuser.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > -----Original Message----- > From: freegis-list-bounces <at> intevation.de > [mailto:freegis-list-bounces <at> intevation.de] On Behalf Of > Maciej Sieczka > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:11 PM > To: freegis-list <at> intevation.de > Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap1 - any news? > > > Hi! > > Anybody has news about the vmap1? On the NIMA website I > cannot find any info about its availability, neither for free > nor dollars [1]. On the USGS website either. > > However, on NIMA's page you can find documents from 2006 > [2],[3], mentioning the processing is done as of December 2005. > > The only official NIMA's source [4], which the Mapability > website links to [5], still only contains the 57 tiles (out > of supposedly 234 total), released several years ago. > > Interestingly there is a company, East View Cartographic [6] > ("headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, with offices in > Russia" [7] "and Netherlands" [8]), which provides a > *complete* vmap1 coverage at 55 USD per tile. Note it is the > same price that, as I heard in rumours [9], USGS was supposed > to charge. If the rumours are true, how does the company make > their profit ;)? > > If you know anything please add to the thread. > > Best, > Maciek > > [1]http://www.nga.mil > [2]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/nga0602.pdf > [3]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/janfeb06.pdf > [4]http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data > [5]http://www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_download.html > [6]http://www.cartographic.com > [7]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_View_Cartographic > [8]http://www.rmib-geoscience.nl > [9]http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/viewmessage. > phtml?id=4423 > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list <at> intevation.de > https://www.intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/fre> egis-list > |
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