No it does not come with maps or data, and that data is hard to find most of the times.<br><br>2 noteworthy initiatives:<br><br>-Open Street Map, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a><br>
-Open Aerial Map, <a href="http://www.openaerialmap.org/">http://www.openaerialmap.org/</a><br><br>Best regards,<br>Bart<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 19, 2007 4:28 PM, David H. McCoy <<a href="mailto:davidhmccoy@cox.net">
davidhmccoy@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello!<br> I'm new to Mapserver and trying to understand something. I'm working for
<br>company that has an application with a mapping component. Currently, that<br>component uses Google maps. I am replacing the Google Maps API with<br>Openlayers and the mapping component with Mapserver. The goal is that while
<br>a customer can elect to use say Google maps, they can also host the maps<br>internally, thus having no external dependencies.<br><br>In additional to server maps, does Map server actually have maps available?<br>Perhaps a better question would be are there any open source or freeware
<br>apps comparable to Google maps that I can retrieve for local use and utilize in<br>Mapserver?<br><br>Thanks for your time.<br></blockquote></div><br>