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New Spatial Data on geotorrent.org

posted by Satri on Friday September 30, @09:39AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the this-is-another-dream-come-true dept.

One great new tool to share spatial data is geotorrent.org. geoTorrent.org allows the efficient sharing of huge spatial data files. Amongst their newest additions (today!) you will find the 2005 Canadian Road Network and the Blue Marble global image from NASA.

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