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Bruce E. Parkin (bruce@ncs.com) wrote:
: I am going to be working on an X GUI project that will involve
: displaying maps of the world and several countries, at different
: scales and detail and complexity. 
: 
: Can anyone tell me where I can find maps in an image format
: such as GIF or other standard, or does anyone have what I am
: looking for stored away on there disk and be willing to share
: them with me? 

That is not a good solution (GIF's). They are difficult to zoom into,
and separate files need a lot of space. Why not use the NASA vectored
worldmap (available forexample in file Worlddatabase.lzh on many Amiga
sites in Fish directories. I'm not sure about the correct number, but
it's >600). Thos vectored files include all boundaries, big lakes and
rivers, and they can be zoomed to some 100 km height.

: And/or C code drawing some basic outline maps in Xlib? 
: Color would be best, but I'd be interested in bitone also.

I hope this is not any programming cource you are doing, and you need
source to do it ?).

: Bruce E. Parkin
: bruce@ncs.com

Esa Haapaniemi
University of Oulu
Finlan