----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello! We have been joined by a new (mature) postgraduate student from Afghanistan (via the refugee camps in Pakistan), who is hoping to do a project involving GIS for environmental management /reconstruction in his home country. He / we would very much appreciate (a) any leads to people who are working on similar projects, or even anyone doing any sort of GIS-based work in/on/for Afghanistan; (b) any suggestions or leads to available topographic and/or thematic mapping. We have the digital chart of the world, and a number of (mostly very old) National Geographic maps of Afghanistan, but that is about it! So we need to greatly improve our coverage, especially at scales larger than 1:1 million. Where do we start????? :-) If anyone out there has any throwaways that might be appropriate, we would be DELIGHTED to relieve you of them! :-) (c) If anyone knows sources of good, cheap/free satellite data for Afghanistan, this would also be nice. We know of the usual "obvious" sources like the EROS data centre. Many thanks in advance Darius *************************************************************************** Darius Bartlett Darius Bartlett Department of Geography Roinn na Tireolaiochta University College Cork Colaste na hOllscoile Corcaigh Cork, Ireland Corcaigh, Eire Phone: (+353) 21 902835 Fax: (+353) 21 271980 Internet: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.ucc.ie:80/ucc.depts/geography --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was transmitted using 100% recycled electrons.... ***************************************************************************