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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:06:14 -0400
From: Roland Hardt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Mexico City Map
Sender: Roland Hardt <[log in to unmask]>



On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:09:43 -0500 (CDT) "Jonathan R. Stroud"
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> I'm looking for a digitized raster-style map of Mexico City
> metropolitan area, or a vector-style map with the political
> boundaries of the city.

Guia Roji has got a CD-ROM with scanned pages of their Mexico City book of
1997 (=pretty old), but that's completely useless, as it is very expensive
and nearly impossible to extract the files to a usable raster file (Guia
Roji is pretty arrogant in giving permits for scientific use anyway and
always wants to charge a fortune).

INEGI has a 1:10,000 data set available as digital files - unfortunately I
don't know which file format they have, but should be some GIS readable
format. It's seems a bit expensive to me, as they charge for set of blocks
(BTW, outside the U.S. something like "free of charge" doesn't exist
anywhere in the world). More information at <http://www.inegi.gob.mx>.
However, it's without a doubt the most reliable, useful, and the only
available data set I know of.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Roland


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