<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Edward Mac Gillavry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emacgillavry@hotmail.com">emacgillavry@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Reinoud,<br><br>For this, I'd recommend going with OpenStreetMap data (<a 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 href="http://www.switch2osm.org/" target="_blank">http://www.switch2osm.org/</a> for further information. You'll be in good company!<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>If the dataset is too big and you just need to do low scale cartography the "natural earth" dataset is also</div><div>
quite good: <a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Andrea</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>-------------------------------------------------------<br>
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