[Freegis-list] Announced NGA Map Sale Change: TCP, ONC, JNC, GNC

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am 29. Apr 2005 um 16:14:25 schrieb Markus Neteler:
> is the FreeGIS community aware of this story (just found it by
> chance):

At least not me, thanks for posting it.

>	NGAMaps.com,
>  a website to trade CDs of the data in question (almost none has
>  copyright). The goal is to purchase as many of the $14 CDs as
>  possible, so that all of the data is available in the civilian
>  community before it's no longer available. 

> GDAL can do the ADRG conversion to other raster formats:
>  http://www.gdal.org/frmt_ogdi.html
> 
> 
> If this is all true, how to rescue the maps...? 

First we would need to find out about how much data we are looking at.
Then we can think about a strategy.
Burning DVDs or have two harddisks can be very helpful
in many cases. 
We then would need someone to donate the bandwidth for serving it.

> Some sort of FreeGIS server collection might be nice. I found some
> TCP maps here
>  http://www.hiciraq.org/mapcentre/geographic/500k/index.asp
> Search engines will know more archives.
> 
> Opinions? Worth the efforts? 
> [1] http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/SpecialNotices/FR-04-25631.pdf

I guess it can be worth the effort.

	Bernhard

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