GADM's ultimate origins are also one of the great mysteries of the GIS world. GADM's maintainer is notoriously un-responsive to requests so I wouldn't hold your breath about getting open data licensed information that way.
Robert Banick | Field GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross<http://www.redcross.org/> 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 202-805-3679 | Skype robert.banick From: Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com<mailto:penor...@mac.com>> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:26 PM To: Nadeem Sardar <nadeem_...@yahoo.com<mailto:nadeem_...@yahoo.com>>, Severin MENARD <severin.men...@gmail.com<mailto:severin.men...@gmail.com>>, "hot@openstreetmap.org<mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org>" <hot@openstreetmap.org<mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Admin level 2 for CAR and Malawi GADM is under a non-commercial license and thus not open data, or compatible with OpenStreetMap. On 2014-07-03 9:34 PM, Nadeem Sardar wrote: here you can look at following sources. Global Administrative Areas | Boundaries without limits<http://www.gadm.org/> [image]<http://www.gadm.org/> Global Administrative Areas | Boundaries without limits<http://www.gadm.org/> GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software. View on www.gadm.org<http://www.gadm.org/> Preview by Yahoo GeoCommons<http://geocommons.com/>
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