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| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Re: Re: GISList: Map of Afghanistan |
| Date: |
11/09/2001 06:17:47 AM |
| From: |
Deepak Mehta |
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Yes it is a good analogy.
and one should accept facts .
At 11:54 AM 11/9/01 +0000, JAIMINI CHATWANI wrote:
> --- JAIMINI CHATWANI <j_chatwan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >
>Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:54:22 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: JAIMINI CHATWANI <j_chatwan@yahoo.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: Re: GISList: Map of Afghanistan
> > To: nnj@bodley.ox.ac.uk
> >
> > Well......... its like showing Northern Ireland
> > part
> > of Ireland, which it is not and I can tell you that
> > Unionists would be enraged if you did that. One
> > should stick to fact in my opinion rather than go by
> > sentiments.
> >
> > --- Nigel James <nnj@bodley.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Oh
> > dear, here we go...
> > >
> > > Why not have one version showing Kashmir as part
> > of
> > > India, one with it part of
> > > Pakistan ...and one with neither. Then perhaps
> > > everyone will be happy...
> > >
> > >
> > > Nigel James
> > >
> > > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:23:48 +0530 sgsinfotech
> > > <sgsinfotech@satyam.net.in> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I also Agree
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "JAIMINI CHATWANI" <j_chatwan@yahoo.co.uk>
> > > > To: <gislist@geocomm.com>
> > > > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:16 PM
> > > > Subject: Fwd: Re: GISList: Map of Afghanistan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I agree.
> > > > >
> > > > > --- Gurcharn <gurcharn@mahalinternational.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:50:07 +0530
> > > > > > To: "Abdullah Ayazi" <AA@bpce.com>,
> > > > > > <gislist@geocomm.com>
> > > > > > From: Gurcharn
> > > <gurcharn@mahalinternational.com>
> > > > > > Subject: Re: GISList: Map of Afghanistan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 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
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