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

[Tim Makins]

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


> 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.

It might have been useful if you'd added the date of that exchange: May 26th
2000 !!

Not much seems to have happened since then. I did get an email in 2004
mentioning that a US university student had requested and had been sent a CD
by NIMA of an unpublished area in S.America, on the strict understanding
that he didn't distribute it, but I have lost touch with him.

I wonder who has full access to VMAP1 ? Military, I suppose and other
government guys. Overseas too. With 8000 desertions from the US military
last year alone, its amazing none have walked off with the set of CDs under
there arm. If they have, they are keeping quiet about it. Anyone noticed any
suspiciously accurate maps originating from Canada lately ?!

Tim Makins
www.mapability.com
VMAP stuff