Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] FW: canadian topographic maps sorry non online state exposed
Date: Oct 04, 2000 @ 21:17
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>dudes, i also posted to sci.geo.satelite-nav etc.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed McNierney [mailto:Ed@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:03 AM
>To: 'Dan Jacobson=???'; Westley, Steve
>Cc: Ed McNierney
>Subject: RE: topographic maps
>
>
>Steve and Dan -
>
>I just wanted to clarify that the USGS provided no technical assistance of
>any sort to us to make our maps available on the Web. We purchased a set
>of
>digital topographic maps from the USGS just like any business partner or
>end
>user could. All of the technology to deal with multiple map scales,
>projections, sizes, etc., and to merge the maps and make them available
>seamlessly on the Web was developed entirely by us with no help from the
>USGS.
>
>We would love to do exactly the same thing for the Canadian maps; we would
>be very happy to start with the limited set of those maps that are
>currently
>available in digital form. We are very happy to do any technical work
>ourselves. The single enormous obstacle to us doing that is the Canadian
>government's insistence on charging royalties for the display and delivery
>of those maps after we've done all that work at no cost to them. If the
>Canadian government could remove that obstacle we could start seeing
>Canadian maps up on the TopoZone in a few weeks.
>
> - Ed
>
>Ed McNierney
>Executive Vice President and Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
>North Chelmsford, MA 01863
>(978) 251-4242
>ed@...
>www.topozone.com
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