On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 23:10 +0200, Maciej Sieczka wrote: > Nikos Alexandris pisze: > > > I was asked about freely available geo-data concerning the South of > > Germany. > > > > AFAIK, best available elevation data are the SRTM3 data. About > > topographical data I am aware of some commercial data (1:25.000). The > > friend who asked me is satisfied with a 1:50.000 topo-map. > > > > Any "secret" sources? > > I don't know how secret these are, but: > > http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com/catalogue.php?country=55 > http://mapcenter2.cgpsmapper.com/catalogue.php?country=130 > > *How* free these are varies from map to map. As well as the quality. > > These are in so called Polish format. Most complete description is > available in cGPSmapper manual AFAIK [1]. There is a freeware (closed) > program for converting them into Shapefiles [2]. Some other converter > [3]. Mateusz Loskot has worked on an OGR driver, but I don't know > details (CCing him). > > [1]http://www.cgpsmapper.com/manual.htm > [2]http://www.msh-tools.com/Ptxt2shp.html > [3]http://www.gpslib.net/services/Polish-to-Google.Earth/ > > Maciek > > P.S. > Please better ask generic free GIS data questions on FreeGIS ML.
Thank you a lot for the information. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user