Re: MI: World Data Bank II question

[Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.]

Hello Jason,

> I was downloading and converting some shoreline data from the 
> USGS Coastline Extractor (http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html)
> and noticed some errors for the coastlines in Northern Canada. 
>  It was derived from the World Data Bank II (scale 1:2M), which I 
> understand was created by the CIA.  I can't find an original source or 
> contact to notify of these errors though.
> Does anyone out there know who is currently responsible for 
> maintaing this data?

The WDB data (which is at a scale more like 1:20M) gets passed through so many hands 
and 
gets modified that it's hard to know what the original is. As far as I know, it is not 
a maintained 
data set so reporting errors and required updates will unfortunately not yield a new 
version.

If you would consider a maintained commercial product, take a look at Global Insight 
Lite. It 
contains up-to-date political mapping (evening including East Timor) and a 19,500 
place 
gazetteer. It's a soft product downloaded from the web and licence purchase includes a 
years 
worth of updates free of charge. Full details on our web site at 
http://www.europa-tech.com

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K.
http://www.europa-tech.com
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