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From: rick@seismo.UUCP (Rick Adams)
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Subject: Re: summary, map generation on micros
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 18:41:57 EDT
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Summary: world databank II is only about 20 Mbytes

Actually the World Databank II is really only about 20 Mbytes. It comes
on 5 tapes and looks like 400 Mbytes of data because, as delivered, it
has everything in fixed length records of ascii characters. Once
on your target machine, by writing binary floating point numbers
instead of the characters, you can get it down to a reasonable size.
You can reduce it even smaller by throwing out the rivers and
state/privince boundaries.

---rick