Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!seismo!rick From: rick@seismo.UUCP (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: net.graphics,net.micro,net.works Subject: Re: summary, map generation on micros Message-ID: <2982@seismo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 18:41:57 EDT Article-I.D.: seismo.2982 Posted: Wed Aug 14 18:41:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 22:24:35 EDT References: <1040@noscvax.UUCP> <2022@ukma.UUCP> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 9 Xref: linus net.graphics:996 net.micro:10229 net.works:852 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