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Subject:        Re: Madagascar
Date:   Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:19:39 -0700
From:   Carlos Diaz <[log in to unmask]>
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You may want to consider taking a look at:
--I 19.121:62-B
    Global GIS Database.  Digital Atlas of Africa
     published by:  U.S. Geological Survey
Most Federal documents depositories should have them.  For a listing of
depositories in Pennsylvania, go to:
http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/FDLPdir.jsp?flag=searchp&st_12=PA
Some information on the CD-ROM.
http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/pubdetail.html?item=624102

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Central Washington University
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  >>> "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,              UW
Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]> 10/8/2013 8:02 AM >>>
-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Madagascar
Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:58:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:   John H Clark <[log in to unmask]>
To:     <[log in to unmask]>



I’m helping a researcher make a reference map in Arc of Madagascar for a
publication regarding 18^th and 19^th century slave trade. She’ll
provide relevant toponyms and I’ll take it from there. I’m running into
trouble finding the shapefiles for a basemap – boundary file, rivers and
other waterfeatures, perhaps DEM for hillshading.  While I’ve found a
bit of this googling for open access material I haven’t found any
datasets with metadata, and I’m unfamiliar with the reputations of the
websites where I’ve found data. Does anyone know where I can get this
type of material (with metadata!)? If not open-access then what’s good
for proprietary data? And what is the background/rep of the website
MapCruzin? Appears to be people from UC-Santa Cruz? No FGDC with their
Madagascar data however.


John H Clark