Just to toss in another poinnt of view, we have been downloading/purchasing data from these guys for years and have always been very satisfied with both product and service. They are moving to a new facility and may be having some temporary problems because of that. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:10 PM Subject: MI-L Bad Data report >Just to let you all know, the EROS data center which used to supply >DEM's in SDTS format for free download has stopped doing so. Instead >they redirect you to GISDATADEPOT.com. This company now has the free >data, but you must navigate through a minimum of 7 screens to get to it, >and they limit their pipe so all the free data comes VERY slow about >1k/sec regardless of your download speed. They will give "faster" >downloads for a fee of course. Also, I don't know what they did to the >data, but none of the public domain SDTS2DEM translators work with them >anymore. Record A's come out zero'd out and many of the Record B's are >so corrupt the quads are unuseable. I ordered some of the quads on CD >from them since their download time was so excruciatingly slow, and the >CD looks like it was made on someone's home PC. No label or anything, >just a white CD. Most of the data on the CD is unreadable on any of my 8 >CD drives in the office. So, if you are looking for DEM's I wouldn't >trust these guys to supply you with good data. It looks like the only >way to get decent data now is to order them in Native format from EROS >directly for a buck each. Just wanted to put this out there so everyone >knows what a screw up this was for EROS. > >Cameron Crum > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ >List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | >To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and >put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
