Hi Noli Ordnance Survey has confirmed that the best URL for sample files is http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/innovations/discoverdata. html#mastermap.
Andrew ________________________________________ From: Noli Sicad [mailto:nsi...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 March 2011 05:59 To: Andrew Chapman Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement Hi Andrew, > To encourage take-up for both GIS and QGIS, it may help if there were > tutorials to take a new user of GIS through the steps to download data from > Ordnance Survey (probably only in GZ format for the topology layers). > To date I've been getting data as shapefiles - when I last tried (an earlier > version) QGIS wouldn't load .gz and the support for .gml may have been > incomplete. > Is anyone else using Ordnance Survey .gz files directly? > Would the best advice for users new to GIS be to convert to shapefiles or > use a database (something I've not yet managed to do)? > Are there any UK users involved with town or parish councils? I think it would be wise to put an example of this OS gz file so we can try if we can open it with QGIS. Just a very simple example of the file :-). Then, post the URL where we can download it. Noli ________________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3479 - Release Date: 03/03/11 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
