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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Map of Afghanistan |
| Date: |
11/09/2001 04:38:27 AM |
| From: |
Gurcharn |
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Hello Sir,
Just visited the web site which you had mention below.....
You had shown the Kashmir as a part of Pakistan... which is actually NOT.
I would like request you to please modify the map which you had shown...
Gurcharn Singh
At 01:30 PM 11/8/01 -0700, Abdullah Ayazi wrote:
>Dear GIS enthusiast,
>
>I have recently published (August 2001) what I consider to be the most
>detailed map of Afghanistan in this scale (1:1,500,000). I took three
>years to complete and has tons of details and information that you can not
>find in a any available map of Afghanistan today. I used more than a dozen
>different maps to create this and it wasn't easy to do, considering that I
>am neither a geographer nor a trained cartographer.
>
>Frustrated over not finding a detailed map of Afghanistan, I took it upon
>myself to create one, just so that I could follow the civil war in my
>former home. Since a lot of the fighting took place in smaller cities and
>villages which most of the maps do not show, I felt that there was a need
>for a detailed map that showed smaller tows, cities and roads. I started
>making this map in late 1998 and after almost 3000 hours of hard work,
>mostly on my spare time during weekends and nights, I finally published it
>in August. Initially I published the map so I could provide a service for
>the Afghan community in the United States, but then the September 11
>incident happened...
>
>Now my map is in great demand and I get inquiries from schools, libraries
>and map stores. This map was featured in three newspapers articles, the
>Albuquerque Journal, the Dallas Morning News and the Denver Post.
>
>Some of the details of the map include:
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>- Latest Administrative division of the country (all 31 provinces that non
>of the older maps show).
>- It shows more than 2500 cities, towns and villages.
>- It features "Afghanistan at a Glance" in which a lot of important
>information is given about the country.
>- It has a "Timeline of Afghan History" that covers history of Afghanistan
>from 5000BC.
>- It has an inset map of south and central Asia indicating location of
>Afghanistan, a very useful feature.
>- It has a "Time Chart" for finding local time of more than a dozen major
>cities around the globe.
>- and much, much more ...
>
>I wrote this note to you figuring you might be interested to know about
>it. Please visit my website at www.afghanmap.com and let me know what you
>think.
>
>I think you will find it interesting.
>
>Thanks,
>Abdullah Ayazi
>Albuquerque, NM
>505-792-8721
>aayazi@afghanmap.com
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