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Darius;
 
There are soviet military 1:200,000 and 1:50,000 topographic maps available
for Afghanistan (but not cheap unfortunately).  You might be able to arrange
either copies or ILL through Harvard or New York Public Library who should
have the 1:200,000 sets.
 
There are a few older, generally low quality geo-scientific maps available
as well (see our web site at http://www.omnimap.com).
 
Give a yell if you want more specifics.
 
Russell Guy
OMNI Resources
http://www.omnimap.com
At 03:17 PM 10/9/96 EDT, you wrote:
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>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
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