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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:24:54 -0500
From: Tsering Wangyal Shawa <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Orthophoto of Los Angeles
Sender: Tsering Wangyal Shawa <[log in to unmask]>


I have a student who wants to have a DOQQ of South Central Los Angeles
area. Can any one point me to a site that will allow me to download the
orthophoto for free? Not http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/. If any
library has the said area's orthophoto in CD-ROM and wanted to make it
accessible to us through FTP or server site I would really appreciate.

I strongly feel that all the orthophotos of US should be made freely
accessible to depository library by cutting CDs or DVDs and distributing
them or by creating a site for  downloading the data for free. USGS is
making various excuses of not distributing one of the best GIS data sources
to a public. Orthophotos are the main source of information for updating
various topographic maps. Not only this they are also used for updating
various GIS data sources such as landuse. Anyway, I don't know, what is the
best way to deal with this situation. Any ideas?? Is there any USGS guy who
could advise us?

Thanks.
-Wangyal
Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Geosciences and Map Library
Guyot Hall, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-4607
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis

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