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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Slope map of India (electronic)
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005
From: Tsering W Shawa ([log in to unmask]) <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
Jeff,
It is pretty easy to create a slope map of India, if your patron knows
how to use GIS software. If he never used GIS software then he needs
help from someone who knows the software.
To create a slope map you need a digital elevation data and a GIS
software. GTOPO30 is a pretty good world-wide elevation dataset with a
grid resolution of approximately 1KM. you can download the data free
from this site
(http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html). Right now,
the site seems to be down. A slope map could be create very easily from
a digital elevation data.
Hope this information is helpful.
-Wangyal
Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Head, Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Geosciences and Map Library
Fine Hall B Level, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-4607
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis
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From: "Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 8:41 am
Subject: MAPS-L: Slope map of India (electronic)
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> Subject: Slope map of India (electronic)
> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005
> From: Rothal, Jeff USA <[log in to unmask]>
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> One of our students is trying to track down an *electronic*
> (online or
> otherwise) slope map of India, similar to the
> Russia/China/Mongolia one
> at
> http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/GIS/giswebpage/documents/slope.htm.
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> He found a large paper map in the National Atlas of India (1983;
> Vol. 2,
> Plate 44) that shows 16 different color-coded slope variations (both
> land and submarine), ranging from VERY STEEP SLOPE (more than 600
> metresper kilometre) to FLAT (2 to 10 metres per kilometre). He's
> hoping to
> find something similar in electronic format. (The map in the
> atlas was
> originally issued by the Ministry of Education and Youth Services,
> Government of India, 1963. It also reads "Source: Survey of India
> maps." The scale is 1:6,000,000.).
>
> I have searched the National Informatics Centre and Natural Resources
> Data Management System (of India) web sites without success.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
>
> Jeff Rothal
> Reference & Instruction Librarian
> Naval Postgraduate School
> Dudley Knox Library (Code 013)
> Monterey CA 93943 U.S.A.
> phone (831) 656-2344
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> http://www.nps.edu/Library/
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