of about 3000 galaxies, predominantly spirals, with measured peculiar velocities. The Mark III catalog, which does not include the more recent all-sky SFI and ENEAR surveys, has been extensively used in the analyses of peculiar velocity data. While considerable effort was made to ensure uniformity, it is a compilation of heterogeneous data sets. As illustrated in figure 11 of Kollat  [@kollat], it lacks uniformity in sky coverage due to the uneven coverage of the main data sets included in the compilation. While the availability of this catalog prompted the development of several techniques to analyze peculiar velocity data and efforts to understand possible bias, its use has led to conflicting results. The reasons for the discrepancies are not understood and could indicate limitations of the data or of the methods used. Efforts to re-calibrate this catalog using new observations [@shellflow] are still underway.

In this context the completion of the SFI I-band TF survey of late spirals and the ENEAR $D_n-\sigma$ survey of early-type galaxies are important additions, providing homogeneous samples of comparable sizes. Figure \[fig:skydist\] shows the projected distribution of galaxies in these two surveys. In contrast to the Mark III compilation, the sky coverage of both surveys is 