[Cz-L] Website and Maps on CD

Greetings Czernowitzers!

Some weeks ago I asked those using dial-up modems to access the net to make
themselves known. I had 11 responses -- about 5% of the list. I have since
gone back to making thumbnails for photo and postcard collections and am
slowly working on trying to make things more manageable for those that don't
have high speed connections.

I was thinking about the 1910 Austro-Hungarian high resolution maps at
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm
and how if you had a dial up, you could grow old trying to download a single
map (each map is around 3.5 MB). And I was thinking about the things on the
website that are still difficult to look at if you have a dial up. A not
too bad solution, I thought, would be for me to download the map collection
(the better part of it, anyway) and put it on a CD along with a working copy
of the website. I did this, and sent a copy to Bruce for testing. I think
I am now ready to go.

So, let me try and be clear about what will be on the CD:
1. 179 maps covering Europe from 38ƒ30'N;16ƒ50'E to 53ƒ30'N;30ƒ50'E
2. The index map with instructions and examples
3. The entire Czernowitz-L website that you can run from the CD without
being connected to the net. This means you get all the maps, postcards,
photos, stories etc., as fast as your computer can dish it up. All links
work except those that access websites external to ours (for example,
JewishGen). Of course the website you receive will be frozen in time at a
date that I start making the CD's.

I would be pleased to make the CD available to anyone who thinks they would
like to have one, not only to the dial-up users. The maps, if you haven't
looked at them, are topographical, at a scale of 1:200,000, which means that
are very feature rich maps -- individual buildings are shown.

So, if you would like a CD, send me an email with your full name and postal
address, and I'll mail one to you. I will try and figure out a flat cost
recovery price that includes the postage, packaging and the media. It looks
like it will be around USD 3.00, but I won't know for sure until I send a
few.

Best regards,
jerome
Received on 2005-01-25 15:03:06