Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RT> If there's mapping _data_ out there that's freely available I'd sure
RT> like to know about it.

MK> Me too.  I have found xyz ASCII data, 1km control points, for the
MK> entire province of BC but they want money for it.  Go figure eh?

There used to be an outfit,  I can't remember the name any more,  but they
were advertising in all of the programmer's magazines.  And they'd sell a
whole mess of interesting stuff in terms of software and data.  I believe
that there was some sort of mapping info included in that,  though it
wasn't anything particularly graphic,  just big files of data points or
something similar.

MK>> No Windows btw, as it runs the CPU at 100% whether the CPU is in 
MK>> use or not.  I like NASA's idea of using Linux on satellites as it 
MK>> can be used to control the CPU's usage to a minimum.  They claim 
MK>> it keeps the CPU cooler and extends the life.  Sounds like a good 
MK>> idea to me.

RT> I hadn't heard about this.  Got a url?  :-)

MK> I don't remember where I saw this but offhand I am thinking it was 
MK> a NASA press release or something along that line.  It was at least 
MK> a year ago, maybe more.  I read far too much geeky stuff to be able
MK> to keep track of it all, especially seeing I am getting far more
MK> forgetful each passing day.  My uptime is getting too short.  :-/

Heh.

Well,  I have several space-related echos flowing in here,  including one
that's supposed to be "news",  along with a bunch of files in my
files section that consist largely of stuff that was earlier cross-posted
to fido from places like JPL and other interesting NASA points.  I haven't
read any of those echos,  but I don't have them set to throw anything away
at this point either,  so there's probably some interesting stuff in there
when I can find the time for it.  Maybe even URLs.  :-)

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