Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Carlos Cerdán
Hi Jim Diva GIS has also free vector and raster data for all world at http://www.diva-gis.org/Data Regards from Perú Carlos Cerdán El 15/11/11 05:50, Jim Brown escribió: Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread adams
Dear Jim, probably the OSM files for South Africa are a good point to start. Get them here: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/africa/south_africa_and_lesotho.shp.zip Regards, Till On 15.11.2011 11:50, Jim Brown wrote: > Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, > sorr

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Noli Sicad
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/natural-earth-version-1-3-release-notes/ Noli On 11/15/11, Jim Brown wrote: > Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry > about that... > > When I downloaded Qgis I got the Alaska map. I'd like to do my learning on > somethin

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 15/11/2011 11:50, Jim Brown a écrit : Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got the Alaska map. I'd like to do my learning on something closer to home which is Johannesburg, South Africa. Or failing that, the Eastern

[Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Brown
Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got the Alaska map. I'd like to do my learning on something closer to home which is Johannesburg, South Africa. Or failing that, the Eastern Cape as shown in some of the pix in Tim *e