Jehiah Czebotar wrote:
> I'm looking for a source of current worldwide basemap data to use with
> floatcanvas. Does anyone have a source for that type of data?

Here's a couple:

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/shoreline/world_vec.html

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html

> (or are there other standard basemap formats that people on this list
> are using)?

I've used whatever the World Vector Shoreline is in (that's in the 
FloatCanvas Demo)

I also use BNA, which is a simple text format, but fairly unusual.

Lots of data is in Shape Files these days, which you can read with 
pyShapelib or org:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

org supports lots of other formats too.

I just used org to read a shapefile of polygons for the first time. It 
wasn't too  painful.

-Chris



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