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DCW-GMT: The Digital Chart of the World for GMT

<p>The Digital Chart of the World is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000 scale vector basemap of the world. The charts were designed to meet the needs of pilots and air crews in medium- and low-altitude en route navigation and to support military operational planning, intelligence briefings, and other needs. For basic background information about DCW, see the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Chart_of_the_World">Wikipedia entry</a>.</p> <p>DCW-GMT is an enhancement to DCW in a few ways:</p> <ol> <li>It contains more state boundaries (the largest 8 countries, Norway and United Kingdom are now represented).</li> <li>The data have been reformatted to save space and are distributed as a single deflated netCDF-4 file.</li> </ol>

ShareScore

24/100

Overall dataset sharing score

Score breakdown

These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.

Stewardship
4
Harmonization
4
Access
8
Reuse readiness
0
Engagement
8

Dataset details

Repository
zenodo
Published
June 24, 2024
License
Not reported
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.6823056

Scored with release 0.9.0

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