--- Begin Forwarded Message --- 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" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Roland W. Hardt engineer in cartography, responsable senior cartographer Finalist at the 1999/2000 Macromedia People's Choice Awards in the category "Infographics" Quimera Editores, S.A. de C.V. Balderas 33-314 Col. Centro 06050 Mexico, D.F. fon: (+52-5) 518-1285 fax: (+52-5) 521-4251 e-mail: [log in to unmask] www: http://www.rolandhardt.com --- End Forwarded Message ---