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Thank you for your answers.<br>
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@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. <br>
In the link you provided I now also see decent topographic maps so
I'll certainly give it a try!<br>
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@Andrea: Natural Earth indeed seems to be a good alternative to
start with, thank you for that link.<br>
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Reinoud,<br>
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For this, I'd recommend going with OpenStreetMap data (<a
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href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a>).
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 <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.switch2osm.org/"
target="_blank">http://www.switch2osm.org/</a> for
further information. You'll be in good company!<br>
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<div>I've also seen people download and use OSM data in
locations where no internet connection is available</div>
<div>(closed networks), they just downloaded the full OSM world
file, imported it in postgis using osm in a box,</div>
<div>and then used the osm in a box styles to map it with
GeoServer.</div>
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<div>If the dataset is too big and you just need to do low scale
cartography the "natural earth" dataset is also</div>
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quite good: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/</a></div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Andrea</div>
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