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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Map of Afghanistan |
| Date: |
11/09/2001 10:08:48 PM |
| From: |
Mehdi Syed |
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I agree, we are professionals and not politicians. Impressive work.
Mehdi Syed
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Heersink [mailto:pheersink@yahoo.com\
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:05 PM
To: Abdullah Ayazi: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: Re: GISList: Map of Afghanistan
This guy spends 3000 hours on a map and the first
thing anyone says is that he got something wrong!
Looks impressive for someone not trained in
cartography! I'd be interested in here how you
completed the map (software used) and what data
sources you found and considered to be reliable. Good
work!
Paul
--- Abdullah Ayazi <AA@bpce.com> 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:
>
> - 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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