On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:12:41AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Not that it matters much, but USGS dropped the 1-degree by 1-degree > > distribution method years ago. Doesn't mean that it's a bad way to go, > > but it *isn't* the way USGS does it. > > > > Their "data partners" tend to do it by state now. > > Rgr. > > Are there additional restrictions now on the map data since it's > being distributed by someone other than the USGS? U.S. Taxpayers > paid for it once, just wondering how many times we'll again pay for > it.
I'm not aware of any new restrictions. In fact, I found that buying state-wide "data bundles" from GeoCommunities (one of the USGS "data partners") was significantly cheaper than it used to be for a state's worth of DRGs direct from USGS (where they were $1.00 each plus a $30 set-up fee for the order once they stopped distributing the 1-by-1 degree bundles). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
