GLOBE Download Problems
Note: I have recently (Feb 2002) observed problems in getting the data from the NGDC
web site. I have been informed that the problem is with the Netscape 4.x browser on PCs. What happens is the browser tries
to gunzip the file as it brings it over, but instead corrupts the file. I have been told it works with Netscape 6.x.
With Internet Explorer, it seems to gunzip it correctly, but it leaves the file named with the ".gz" extension.
Here is a way I have found that works on PCs that bypasses the browser. If you have your own FTP software, you can use that also:
- use Start/Run and run "ftp"
- open ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov
- username: anonymous
- password: (put in your email address)
- cd GLOBE_DEM/data/elev
- binary (you MUST transfer in binary mode)
- lcd xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is the directory you want the data save into)
- If you leave this line out, the data will be saved where ever ftp executes from.
- For a Windows 95/98 system, this is probably C:\windows.
- Thus, before you start ftp, create a directory where you want to put the data,
such as c:\globe
- Then do lcd c:\globe
- get h10g.gz (this will get this tile file)
- winzip will then be able to unzip the file
You can use this to get each of the 16 tile files.
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