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Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:44:50 +0200
From: Jan Smits <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Searching for data/maps <fwd>
Sender: Jan Smits <[log in to unmask]>
 
Maybe the following project on URL
 
http://www1.gsi-mc.go.jp/iscgm-sec/index.html
 
can answer some of your searches, see following text:
 
Global Map is a group of global geographic data sets of known and verified quality, with consistent specifications which will be open to the
public. Global Map is considered a common asset of mankind, and will be distributed worldwide at marginal cost.
(Rule of International Steering Committee for Global Mapping: Article 3)
 
Every nation in the world has a national mapping or equivalent organization. There is an urgent need for an organization or
infrastructure that takes the responsibility of developing and maintaining global geographic information to cope with the global
problems. An organization is needed whose primary purpose is to examine measures that concerned national, regional and
international organizations can take to foster the development of Global Mapping in order to facilitate the implementation of
global agreements and conventions for environmental protection as well as the mitigation of natural disasters and to encourage
economic growth within the context of sustainable development.
 
The Global Mapping Concept calls for every nation and all concerned organizations to work together to develop and provide
easy and open access to global geographic information at a scale of 1:1,000,000 or with a ground resolution of about one
kilometer.
 
With kind regards,
 
 
 
Jan Smits
Map Curator Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of The Netherlands
SKD: Department for Cartographical Documentation
P.O. Box 90.407
2509 LK Den Haag
The Netherlands
tel: +31 70 3140241
fax: +31 70 3140450
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President Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER (GdC, European Map Curators Group)
Chairman Working Group for Mapcuratorship, Dutch Cartographic Society (NVK)
IFLA Representative for the ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data
WWW-SKD: http://www.konbib.nl/kb/skd/karto-en.html
WWW-GdC: http://www.konbib.nl/kb/skd/liber/intro.htm
WWW-personal: http://www.konbib.nl/persons/jan-smits/homepage.htm
 
Na matheis kai na matheis ap'tous spoudasmenous
(To learn and still to learn from those who know
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