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Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] World Maps Online
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Hi Bernard

> Your Webserver does not react from my point of view right now.

Right you were, just after we left the office there was a problem with the
web server, i just wetn back to the office and fixed it, i hope.... ;-)

please try again at http://www2.demis.nl/mapserver/

> Are there limitations on the use of the output of your mapservice?

Basically, No. It's a free service right ?

You can do anything you like with it's output which is based on public
domain, it would be nice however if people refer to where they got it from.
I will soon add a button which allows you to make a shortcut URL to a
specific area on the globe

> What software are you using to serve the maps? The
> mapserver software?

We wrote our own, using code libraries we started developing before any GIS
existed on the windows platform.

  How did you get the DCW data then?
  We would like to offer free DCW data, but do not
  have a good converter for the VPF format it is in.

We used the latest vMap0 version of DCW from NIMA, with mixed feelings,
difference with DCW sometimes good, sometimes bad. We dumped the contents of
each layer in the VPF database to huge shapefiles and wrote a dedicated
converter app to build a tiled database from there using our very compact
native format.
It would be very easy for me to generate this data, and my boss would like
to make money from it, but the huge volume of the data makes it a lot of
work to get it from one computer to another, even with NTFS compression on
the files it's more then a gigabyte so you would need a heavy backbone to
serve this kind of downloads over the web...

Are you aware that the original DCW data from ESRI is available by country
on some university computer in the states ? it's in E00 format, don't have
the URL handy but it's easy to find...

Anyway, i hope you like the server, take a good look at the database, and
put up a link for it...?

Bart Adriaanse
DEMIS BV
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