Thank you for your answers.
@Edward: Thank you for that link, just what I needed. I have been looking at OSM before but it
always seemed to be mainly about street maps with too many features and I never really found out how
to use it.
In the link you provided I now also see decent topographic maps so I'll
certainly give it a try!
@Andrea: Natural Earth indeed seems to be a good alternative to start with,
thank you for that link.
On 03/07/2012 10:02 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Edward Mac Gillavry <emacgilla...@hotmail.com
<mailto: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
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