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| Subject: | GISList: Shapefile libraries? |
| Date: |
05/09/2003 10:05:00 AM |
| From: |
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Greetings.
I am curious whether listers are aware of any extant
efforts to build comprehensive on-line libraries of
useful, light-weight shapefiles such as country
outlines, coastlines, islands and the likes. I
appreciate that these data are available in some
aggregated forms, but these suffer the cost of
sizeable download, having to be de-aggregated to get
the bit one needs, necessarily being provided at a
single scale (nor appropriate for smaller elements),
and having a single projection that distorts elements
toward the edges (look at scandinavia in most global,
geo/mercator composits).
If such efforts are not afoot, how many listers would
be interested in contributing time and effort to
buidling such an archive, assuming that a suitable
host site could be found?
I am suggesting here a quickly-usable asset, not
necessarily suitable for intensely serious GIS work
but adequate for quick-and-dirty map development. My
searches so far have found little to nothing available
to meet this need.
Thanx in advance for your attention.
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