----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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)