[ gpsdrive ] NASA maps

[Rikard Johnels]

On Monday 28 July 2008 20:39, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Tettnang/Germany) 
wrote:
> On Montag 28 Juli 2008, Hamish wrote:
> > > But i am interested in the NASA topology sets as an experiment for a
> > > search-and-rescue application me and some ppl are tinkering
> > > with.
> > >
> > > Which of the maps under http://mirrors.arsc.edu/nasa/ am i
> > > to use ??
> > >
> > > Is any of the world_500m maps suitable?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > you can load pretty much any map into GRASS GIS and then use
> > d.out.gpsdrive to make a tile. It's how I made the standard NASA blue
> > marble maps. see also the sar page on the GRASS applications wiki.
> >
> > I'm travelling and can't test your dataset right now, but if you are
> > still stuck next month give me a buzz and I'll see what I can do.
>
> Wasn't there another method where you could download the whole NASA Set and
> converted it into the two big  (east/west) tiff files which can be used by
> gpsdrive directly.


Thats the two sets i was looking for as described in the readme file in the 
source distribution.
I couldnt find those two exact files pointed at, hence my original question.
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