[mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

[Reinoud Bokhorst]

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 <emacgillavry at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:emacgillavry at 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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