[bug #3862] (freegis) Blue Marble datasets

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Subject: Blue Marble datasets 

This was posted on FreeGIS, 
should be reviewed. 
 
The "Next Generation" Blue Marble datasets from NASA have 
been converted to ECW format, and made available as torrents 
at http://www.geotorrent.org/. 
 
Each torrent includes 12 distinct world images for each month 
of the year, each 86400 x 43200 pixels in size.  At 50:1 compression 
these ecw files are about 260MB or 2.8GB per torrent. 
 
Three versions exist: 
 
Enhanced with Topolography and Bathymetry 
  http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=61 
 
Enhanced with Topography 
  http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=60 
 
"Real" View 
  http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=59 
 
A variety of software package support the ECW format, including 
the FWTools builds of OpenEV/MapServer/GDAL at: 
  http://fwtools.maptools.org/ 
 

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