On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Edward Mac Gillavry < emacgilla...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Reinoud, > > For this, I'd recommend going with OpenStreetMap data ( > http://www.openstreetmap.org/). You can either download the whole data > set for the world yourself and start building, or you can take mapping > services from various suppliers. Check out http://www.switch2osm.org/ for > further information. You'll be in good company! > I've also seen people download and use OSM data in locations where no internet connection is available (closed networks), they just downloaded the full OSM world file, imported it in postgis using osm in a box, and then used the osm in a box styles to map it with GeoServer. If the dataset is too big and you just need to do low scale cartography the "natural earth" dataset is also quite good: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/ Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf -------------------------------------------------------
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