> Do you have any idea how big a file a scanned two-foot by three-foot > chart would require at 300 dpi? A quick calculation shows that to be > 77,760,000 pixels! Which is why USGS has their topos distributed on CDROM, not the web. Maybe a day will come when the internet can push a 77 meg file for individual use, but we are a ways away from that. Besides at $3 or so a copy, CDROM is the correct distribution and storage method for such files. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 16:08:35 PDT
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