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

[Maciek Sieczka]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:30:37 -1000
"Ben Discoe" <ben at vterrain.org> wrote:

> 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?

Bill Thoen on
http://lists.directionsmag.com/discussion/read.php?f=13&i=16&t=13 said:

>Jim Lusby at NIMA came through and I just received a spreadsheet
>listing all the VMAP 1 file reference numbers and their status. There
>are 232 files, 60 will be made available for sale through the USGS very
>soon; 118 are not yet published, and 56 are not for sale.

The whole discussion is pretty interesting (but too many American law
specific issues for me to follow it fully). Anyway, the point is, I
think, that you can request any vmap1 dataset from NIMA based on FOIA
(Freedom Of Information Act), though NIMA seems to ignore such
requests, for now. Read more:

http://www.ollivier.co.nz/atlas/freeworldmaps.html
http://exchange.manifold.net/manifold/manuals/5_userman/mfd50Public_Access_to_Public_Data.htm

Most of the public vmap1 datasets are already available here for easy
download here:
http://www.mapability.com/index1.html?http&&&www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_download.html

Maciek

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