Re: vmap1 - any news?

Hello,
Try the links found at 
http://www.gisuser.com/content/category/10/84/41/50/0/


http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/vmap1_leg
end.html
And

http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rast_roam
.html

Glenn


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Maciej Sieczka
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Freegis-list] vmap1 - any news?
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Anybody has news about the vmap1? On the NIMA website I 
> cannot find any info about its availability, neither for free 
> nor dollars [1]. On the USGS website either.
> 
> However, on NIMA's page you can find documents from 2006 
> [2],[3], mentioning the processing is done as of December 2005.
> 
> The only official NIMA's source [4], which the Mapability 
> website links to [5], still only contains the 57 tiles (out 
> of supposedly 234 total), released several years ago.
> 
> Interestingly there is a company, East View Cartographic [6] 
> ("headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, with offices in 
> Russia" [7] "and Netherlands" [8]), which provides a 
> *complete* vmap1 coverage at 55 USD per tile. Note it is the 
> same price that, as I heard in rumours [9], USGS was supposed 
> to charge. If the rumours are true, how does the company make 
> their profit ;)?
> 
> If you know anything please add to the thread.
> 
> Best,
> Maciek
> 
> [1]http://www.nga.mil 
> [2]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/nga0602.pdf
> [3]http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/janfeb06.pdf
> [4]http://geoengine.nima.mil/ftpdir/archive/vpf_data
> [5]http://www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_download.html
> [6]http://www.cartographic.com 
> [7]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_View_Cartographic
> [8]http://www.rmib-geoscience.nl 
> [9]http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/viewmessage.
> phtml?id=4423
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