Assuming I sent my earlier post to the list... The USGS quads South Carolina DNR has on its site range in size from 7-24 megs. I couldn't d/l them until I had a T1 line because my server kept timing out on most of them. They are still worth having. I'd be willing to pay for zip disks or cds of NOAA charts. Hint, hint, for you entrepreneurs out there. At 12:41 PM 5/14/98 -0500, Chuck Holst wrote: > >>> >If NOAA charts are public domain . . . why doesnt someone do us all a >big favor and scan them and post them on the net? Might put a few >NOAA dealers out of business, I suppose, but why should we all pay >for what we have already bought (as taxpayers) anyway? > > In fact, why doesnt NOAA just post its charts digitally? Could it >be that the people who make money reproducing them and selling them >would howl too loudly? >>> > >************************************************************************** * > >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! > >Chuck Holst >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >*************************************************************************** > > *************************************************************************** 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 - 20:51:03 PDT
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