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DIGITIZED SOIL MAP OF THE WORLD
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
 
     The Land and Water Development Division of FAO has developed
a digitized version of the FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World. Over
60 diskettes, divided into seven continental areas, present soil
information, country boundaries, inland water, glacier and
coastline information.
 
     The maps are drawn to a scale of 1:5,000,000 in Geographic
Projection. Each Group of diskettes contains tables defining the
extent of Mapping Units, Soil Units, Texture and Slope for each
country. A Soil Expansion file is included, as well as notes
describing the map legend, the tabular data's structure, and the
analysis of the soil data.
 
     Country boundaries re up-to-date through June 1992. All
digitized cartographic data is in ARC/INFO EXPORT format and
requires GIS software to access. IBM-PC or compatible.
 
     $150 per vol.
 
     Vol. 1: Africa. 10 disks.
     Vol. 2: North and Central America. 9 disks.
     Vol. 3: Central and South America. 9 disks.
     Vol. 4: Europe and West of the Urals. 8 disks.
     Vol. 5: North East Asia. 7 disks.
     Vol. 6: Near East and Far East. 10 disks.
     Vol. 7: South East Asia and Oceanic. 10 disks.
 
     Tel.: 1-800-274-4888 (US) or 1-800-233-0504 (Canada)
 
     -- From UNIPUB New Books v.3:1 (Feb/Mar. 1993)