- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Armenia 1:100k Topo maps
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Azerbaijan 1:100k Topo maps
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Georgia 1:100k Topo maps
- Orthocoverage
Downloads includes a free sample of good data (15m greyscale image,
15m elevation) for several small areas in Iran
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Iraq 1:200k Topo maps
- LeadDog claims to provides the only Iraq GIS maps in the world (commercial licensing)
- a nice cloud-free image of the whole region (ungeoreferenced) is the Space Shuttle snapshot STS41G-120-0056
- no data of any kind is likely to be made available by the Israeli government, which has, for example, lobbied strongly to ban the sale of satellite images of its own territory [reference]
- GeoSim Systems created a model of a part of Ramat Gan, an area of Tel Aviv, although it's unknown who own the resulting model
- East View Cartographic updated their Israel offerings in Dec. 2003; it now includes 30m DEM for the whole country for $80/quad or $3200 for the whole country
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Israel 1:50k Topo maps
- there are military topos at Jordan 1:100k Topo maps and (older) Jordan 1:50k Topo maps
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Kuwait 1:100k Topo maps
Lebanon- Margaret Horne of the Northumbria University School of the Built Environment along with Insite Environments, UK worked on a visualization of Martyr’s Square, Beirut. See pdf presentation, January 2005
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Qatar 1:100k Topo maps
- report from a recipient: "We have elevation data for a small part of the area (currently zone1 which allows land development with public utilities provided by the government). Other layers are also available for some parts of the region which are not concentric or matching exactly (these were developed by different agencies). Most of the information is public, or semi public, but some are privately owned by a consulting group who actually acquired the data through public avenues (very ironic indeed). Almost all of the data is semi government organizations. Some data is commercial but is not reliable (could not be transported) or geodetically coordinated."
Syria- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - Syria 1:100k Topo maps
- the Virtual Heritage Lab of CNR-ITABC has built interactive virtual models of an archaeological site of Urkesh (Tell Mozan), Syria
- reportedly, DTED 1 elevation exists
for Turkey
- better quality is not available to civilians (this is a restriction on DEMs which is actually set in law)
- according to geomorphologist Dr. Kenan Tüfekçi,
"In Turkey,
General Commander of Mapping (Ankara) prepares the digitized contour map.
You can buy this type map from there. In case, you have the necessary software
for extracting the DTM. When I need a DEM, I am preparing from the topo
map (If interested area is small)."
- BasarSoft (Başar Bilgisayar Sistemlerine Hoşgeldiniz) is the leading commercial data supplier in Turkey, a partner of MapInfo
- the Turkish software CitySurf includes nice demonstration data (including roads, buildings, imagery and points of interest) for a part of Istanbul; their newer demo has Izmir
- there are soviet military topos at UC Berkeley - United Arab Emirates 1:100k Topo maps