I'm sure most you are familar with the coin map that was featured in
Wood magazine a coupla years ago. I'd like to do something a little
different, mainly use CNC to engrave the state borders in the wood. The
problem is that I need a vector type map of the USA. Something in DXF,
IGES, or similar format, and free. A quick google search turns up either
pay, or not what I want at all.
Anyone have one?
Oh yeah, I did look into having the layout from the article scanned and
digitized. Only one place locally could do it, and for a very high price
and in a format I couldn't use.
John
A sawbuck spent on a clipart disk from IMSI (65,000 ) will get you metafile
maps. How you put them into your equipment thereafter is up to you. I
print, stick and cut a lot of clipart on the scrollsaw. Good geography
lessons in puzzles.
"Charles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:29:58 -0500, John Thompson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I'm sure most you are familar with the coin map that was featured in
> >Wood magazine a coupla years ago. I'd like to do something a little
> >different, mainly use CNC to engrave the state borders in the wood. The
> >problem is that I need a vector type map of the USA. Something in DXF,
> >IGES, or similar format, and free. A quick google search turns up either
> >pay, or not what I want at all.
>
>
> There is the micro world data bank
>
> some info at:
>
> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/eco/cdroms/gedii_b/datasets/b14/mw.htm
>
> not sure how you would extract the data to use with CNC though
> --
Ok, depending on how much work you are willing to do this may or may
not be an option. The US geological survey has a data base called the
TIGER line system. Basically, it contains line segments for all
borders, roads, RR's etc. To turn it into something useful is work.
The GRASS project (a GIS from army corp of engineers, used to be
hosted at Baylor University -- site doesn't load -- wonder if
Dub-Rummy-HomerLand security decided it was too dangerous to know
where the roads are!) can read the tiger data. A few years ago I
extracted the entire sub-set of lines that define borders between
counties --- took about a day to get the scripting within GRASS right
and multiple days to fix the pathologies in the data.
Good luck,
hex
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"CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<SzNhb.538360$cF.208190@rwcrnsc53>...
> If you can find something usable on the net (jpg, gif,ect) I can convert it
> to dxf. Let me know threw the group as my email is down as far as receiving.
>
>
>
> "John Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I can convert many types of files to the one I need. My problem is
> > finding a map in any of the formats I can use/convert is the sticky part.
> >
> > Remove the forhire to Email me.
> >
> > John
> >
It's surprising how much they charge for this kind of stuff. I am limited to
an A size page but I can do this in less than five minutes.
"John Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm sure most you are familar with the coin map that was featured in
> Wood magazine a coupla years ago. I'd like to do something a little
> different, mainly use CNC to engrave the state borders in the wood. The
> problem is that I need a vector type map of the USA. Something in DXF,
> IGES, or similar format, and free. A quick google search turns up either
> pay, or not what I want at all.
>
> Anyone have one?
>
> Oh yeah, I did look into having the layout from the article scanned and
> digitized. Only one place locally could do it, and for a very high price
> and in a format I couldn't use.
>
> John
>
If you can find something usable on the net (jpg, gif,ect) I can convert it
to dxf. Let me know threw the group as my email is down as far as receiving.
"John Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I can convert many types of files to the one I need. My problem is
> finding a map in any of the formats I can use/convert is the sticky part.
>
> Remove the forhire to Email me.
>
> John
>
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:29:58 -0500, John Thompson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm sure most you are familar with the coin map that was featured in
>Wood magazine a coupla years ago. I'd like to do something a little
>different, mainly use CNC to engrave the state borders in the wood. The
>problem is that I need a vector type map of the USA. Something in DXF,
>IGES, or similar format, and free. A quick google search turns up either
>pay, or not what I want at all.
>
>Anyone have one?
>
>Oh yeah, I did look into having the layout from the article scanned and
>digitized. Only one place locally could do it, and for a very high price
>and in a format I couldn't use.
>
>John
There is the micro world data bank
some info at:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/eco/cdroms/gedii_b/datasets/b14/mw.htm
not sure how you would extract the data to use with CNC though
--
- Charles
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"John Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm sure most you are familar with the coin map that was featured in
> Wood magazine a coupla years ago. I'd like to do something a little
> different, mainly use CNC to engrave the state borders in the wood. The
> problem is that I need a vector type map of the USA. Something in DXF,
> IGES, or similar format, and free. A quick google search turns up either
> pay, or not what I want at all.
>
> Anyone have one?
I checked QuickCAD. It will do import/export DXF types. Would that help?
John Thompson <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm sure most you are familar with the coin map that was featured in
> Wood magazine a coupla years ago. I'd like to do something a little
> different, mainly use CNC to engrave the state borders in the
> wood. The problem is that I need a vector type map of the
> USA. Something in DXF, IGES, or similar format, and free. A quick
> google search turns up either pay, or not what I want at all.
>
> Anyone have one?
xfig has one in it's libraries, the format is simple (just sequences
of x/y ccordinates. It's containes in probably any recent linux
distribution, in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfig/Libraries/Maps/USA/usa.fig
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Juergen Hannappel <[email protected]> writes:
> John Thompson <[email protected]> writes:
[...]
>> wood. The problem is that I need a vector type map of the
[...]
> xfig has one in it's libraries, the format is simple (just sequences
... if you had provided a working email adress in your post you would
find that in your inbox...
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Dr. Juergen Hannappel http://lisa2.physik.uni-bonn.de/~hannappe
mailto:[email protected] Phone: +49 228 73 2447 FAX ... 7869
Physikalisches Institut der Uni Bonn Nussallee 12, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
CERN: Phone: +412276 76461 Fax: ..77930 Bat. 892-R-A13 CH-1211 Geneve 23