[Freegis-list] Interesting NGA News (about VMAP1)

[Ben Discoe]

Yeah, that's a frustratingly vague press release.  The only hint of how
anyone might actually get the public data is the reference to
"Geospatial-Intelligence Feature Database" (GIFD).  However, i do not find
anywhere on the NGA site (or anywhere online) is it described where or how
to access GIFD.

Anyone know more?

-Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andras Fabian
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:05 AM
> To: freegis-list at intevation.de
> 
> I have just found this interesting piece of information at 
> the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Site. It seems to 
> be some weeks old, but was new to me (and haven't found any 
> discussions about it). The interesting part is, that they 
> speak about some great improvements (and even competition) of 
> VMAP1 data, but one can't really understand weather or not 
> now all CD's will be available (very weired). But read for yourself:
> 
> http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/nga0602.pdf
> 
> International Partnership Completes Decade-Long Conversion to 
> Worldwide, Digital Vector Data BETHESDA, Md.- [...]
> The Defense Logistics Agency distributes this 
> data to the U.S. military on CDs, while publicly releasable 
> data is available on the Internet and through the 
> Geospatial-Intelligence Feature Database.