The Project has produced 50 copies of edited geographic information systems (GIS) data coverages as a CD-ROM entitled "Atlas de Honduras", and 2000 copies of a second version, "Atlas de Honduras: Datos Mitch" (or the "Mitch Atlas").

The CD-ROM opens with a friendly menu-driven interface to a large collection of coverages. These include Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Simmons soils, geology, rivers, watersheds at several levels, roads, counter lines, slope, hypsometry, climate (monthly rainfall, minimum and maximum temperature), recommended land use, land use capacity, forestry, high-resolution land use for 1986 and 1994, mangroves, wetlands, and ecofloristic zones. They also include Olson ecosystems, protected areas, population and density for 1986 and 1988, education, poverty, annual and permanent crops by area and production, farming systems, the 1988 Population and Housing Census, and 1993 Agricultural Census at unit level (individual, household or farm, depending on the census). We constructed a friendly, menu-driven interface where users can select and combine coverages, query the databases, and apply some advanced GIS functions such as spatial joins or buffers. A tutorial is included in the distribution CD-ROM.

Datos Mitch

CIAT has been working with various donors and collaborators from the projects and planning after Hurricane Mitch (October 1998). Many new datasets have been generated based on specific demand from aid agencies in Honduras, and have been made available on the Atlas CD-ROM.