Hello all, thanks to all who variously offered advice on links, further contacts for obtaining geological data for Japan and offering to supply the data. For those who are interested, the following links may be of interest. The Energy Resources Team of the US Geological Survey has produced an extensive product aimed at petroleum products. Thus, the available maps are "biased" in that direction. Part of the effort includes digital maps that can be downloaded. Please also download the available metadata. Overall World report produced in 2000: World map circa 2000. World maps available from: Japan is included in one of several regional reports. Look for Open File Report 97-470F: For downloading data in an .e00 format go to: I believe the CD-ROM version also includes shape files. Cheers, Bill Larson **************************************************************************** ****************** John Excellent web site (in English as well) that may help is the Geological Survey of Japan's: http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/ Large quantity of digital data available, including scales you need. On CD-ROM only doubt it will be accessible of the web. Have not used the data but believe it is ESRI compatible (though this is not specifically stated on the GSJ site, Steven Pollard's slightly out of date summary of geospatial data of Japan indicates that it is in .e00 format). Pollard's site provides a useful start for searching GIS related material in Japan link below: http://www.cast.uark.edu/jpgis/index.html#GeoDigData Would be interested in hearing how you get on Jan **************************** Jan Selwood GIS Consultant **************************************************************************** *************************** Hi John, I recently attended the IAMG meeting in Cancun and listened to a talk about the 'World Geologic Map' project by a fellow from the Japan Geological Survey. They have contributed to this project and so there may be data available. Here are some links to check out. http://www.iamg.org http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/Conferences/IAMG/Sessions/F/kouda.html http://www.iscgm.org Dennis Geasan@PLACER 10/10/2001 09:35 AM ************************************************************************ Dear John I have lifted the infor below from our latest catalogue, this data which was originally in TNTMips format and somewhat poorly attributed. While the quoted scale of the coverage is 2 Million the scale, the data for Japan is better than that (the Japanese did most of the work on this project). I would say the resolution of the Japanese data would be somewhere between 1 and 1.5 Million scale (as you can see by the line density on the Japan section of the low resolution figure below). We can supply this data in ArcView or MapInfo format. Tom Orr Partner Orr and Associates 4 Wongaling Beach Q4852 Australia Phone +61 7 40688692 Fax +61 7 40689216 Web www.orrbodies.com Email tom@orrbodies.com ************************************************************************* hello John: did you ever get a reply to this message? were you able to find some data? if you didnt not hear and you are interested in getting data, please let me know. i can get you japan geology at 1:1M and also CCOP (Coordinating committee for Coastal and Offshore Geoscience Programes in East and Southeast Asia) which are coordinated by GSJ (geological survey of japan). let me know if you would like to purchase them. i think they are about 7000 YEN or so each. there are about 2 - 5 cdroms. we can work out some terms if you are interested. all of the cdroms would be new and unopened. i dont believe there is any way yet to get this data on the internet. format would be in EOO or TNT Mips RVC or DLG