On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Steve Morris wrote:
<> I suspect the market is consumers/users needing data for states not like PA.
Sure, but, he bought a disk full of maps, and PA is one of the states listed (if you look at his list, all the 24k maps for PA)
Why? they've been free longer than most states have had anything whatever online.
For me, DOQs are the final frontier. Most of the northeastern US did put them online in some (typically non-standard) format... though PA, again, has them all, all in original form, whether it be GeoTIFF, BIL or BSQ.
out where to go. Years ago these were all available US-wide for free from gisdatadepot.com -- then they started charging. At $1600 it was probably easier to get the whole bundle than to download from individual states, QA/QC, and then fill in the gaps with supplemental orders for additional states or gaps. Plus, lack of persistence has been a problem with online data even where readily accessible--getting archive.org into this domain would be a plus.
This is true, I suppose I can't argue that. Derrick _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
