Re: [OSS] Re: Meeting Note: Japan Viet Nam Geoinformatics Consortium (JVGC)

At 23:12 23.02.2003 +0000, Rob wrote:
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>Maps are pretty expensive. The mapping authority (in Nguyen Chi Thanh
>road) charges 1.000.000 VND for one CD (one map), and you need 39 maps to
>cover Vietnam at 1:250.000 scale. And you need an introduction letter
>from your co quan. I suspect they would object to them being made
>available on a server, but bandwidth considerations would make it
>impractical anyway.

Depends on the format to download.
I have a very detailed .gif map of Hanoi with about 1 MB.

And I might be interested in a vector format, which is usually even less.

I got mine by doing many screen shots of one of the on-line maps and
"glueing" them together. If the data would be "free(d)", I could give you a
copy ;)

Stefan

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