Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] FW: canadian topographic maps sorry non online state exposed<br/>
Date: Oct 04, 2000 @ 21:17<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2037860976">nice bag man<br/>
<br/>
it is great to hear from this leader creator<br/>
& no apology necessary<br/>
<br/>
you also must tell us<br/>
p l e a s e<br/>
how do we get to these other group addresses<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
canadian topos are beautiful to max<br/>
so the wait should be worthwhile<br/>
<br/>
also i imagine the whole british crown area cant be far behind the united<br/>
states here & may yet overtake us for the gold in zoomable detail maps once<br/>
they all get their act together<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
btw it does appear the german countries are presently in silver thanx to<br/>
the map24 site jesper just brought in for germany switzerland austria &<br/>
liechtenstein<br/>
<br/>
& i dont know if there even is any country or area actually in line for<br/>
bronze at the moment<br/>
& am curious to find out<br/>
but i do think it would have to come from europe or one of these other<br/>
areas of the west or perhaps japan<br/>
rather than anywhere too third world<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt;dudes,  i also posted to sci.geo.satelite-nav etc.<br/>
&gt;-----Original Message-----<br/>
&gt;From: Ed McNierney [mailto:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:Ed@...">Ed@...</a>]<br/>
&gt;Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:03 AM<br/>
&gt;To: &#39;Dan Jacobson=???&#39;; Westley, Steve<br/>
&gt;Cc: Ed McNierney<br/>
&gt;Subject: RE: topographic maps<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Steve and Dan -<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I just wanted to clarify that the USGS provided no technical assistance of<br/>
&gt;any sort to us to make our maps available on the Web.  We purchased a set<br/>
&gt;of<br/>
&gt;digital topographic maps from the USGS just like any business partner or<br/>
&gt;end<br/>
&gt;user could.  All of the technology to deal with multiple map scales,<br/>
&gt;projections, sizes, etc., and to merge the maps and make them available<br/>
&gt;seamlessly on the Web was developed entirely by us with no help from the<br/>
&gt;USGS.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;We would love to do exactly the same thing for the Canadian maps; we would<br/>
&gt;be very happy to start with the limited set of those maps that are<br/>
&gt;currently<br/>
&gt;available in digital form.  We are very happy to do any technical work<br/>
&gt;ourselves.  The single enormous obstacle to us doing that is the Canadian<br/>
&gt;government&#39;s insistence on charging royalties for the display and delivery<br/>
&gt;of those maps after we&#39;ve done all that work at no cost to them.  If the<br/>
&gt;Canadian government could remove that obstacle we could start seeing<br/>
&gt;Canadian maps up on the TopoZone in a few weeks.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;	- Ed<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Ed McNierney<br/>
&gt;Executive Vice President and Chief Mapmaker<br/>
&gt;TopoZone.com  / Maps a la carte, Inc.<br/>
&gt;73 Princeton Street, Suite 305<br/>
&gt;North Chelmsford, MA  01863<br/>
&gt;(978) 251-4242<br/>
&gt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:ed@...">ed@...</a><br/>
&gt;www.topozone.com<br/>
&gt;--<br/>
&gt;Dan Jacobson = øn§¶*ß   <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/jidanni">http://www.geocities.com/jidanni</a><br/>
&gt;Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting year 2001: +886-4-25854780 </span></blockquote></div>