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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Feng,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If you are in the US, census.gov has a ton of data for
boundaries and states.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The tiger data set of data is the most popular -- <A
href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html">http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>and is free and contains boundaries, hydrology, landmarks
etc for all counties/states in US.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Canada has a similar source for their road networks,
hydrology and boundaries and I think a lot of those are free
too</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> - <A
href="http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/geo/index-eng.cfm">http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/geo/index-eng.cfm</A><A
href="http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss2006/DataProducts/RNF2006_e.jsp"></A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>All the above have their data in ESRI Shape which is pretty
much a defacto standard of transport in GIS work so for sophisticated queries
you'll</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>want to load these up in something like PostGIS or you can
keep them raw. Either way you'll want to put a web mapping server behind
them such as MapServer or GeoServer or FeatureServer, TileCache or a combo
of those depending on what you are trying to do.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>For just looking at the raw ESRI shapefiles, I would
recommend something like OpenJump,Quantum GIS, uDig, gvSig which are all
cross-platform</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage">http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.qgis.org/">http://www.qgis.org/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://udig.refractions.net/">http://udig.refractions.net/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.gvsig.gva.es/">http://www.gvsig.gva.es/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>(I've found OpenJump and Quantum the easiest to figure out
how to use if you are just getting started). The others have their own
advantages but for more sophisticated stuff.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>As far as playing around locally. There is a USB
toolkit that admittedly I haven't had a chance to take for a full-spin but may
be very useful for your case just to experiment and get going. It has
prepackaged a lot of the above UMN Mapserver,
GeoServer, FeatureServer, TileCache, Apache, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MySQL, Quantum,
Grass, FW Tools and I think even some sample data.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/">http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>As Chris mentioned - good to check out </FONT><SPAN
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<P></SPAN><A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata"><U><SPAN
lang=EN><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata</FONT></U></SPAN></A></P>
<P><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For more
suggestions on sources of data.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hope
that helps,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=056115911-13112008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Regina</FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> users-bounces@openlayers.org
[mailto:users-bounces@openlayers.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Feng
Wong<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:56 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
users@openlayers.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [OpenLayers-Users] GIS Map
Data<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hello all,<BR>I am a newbie to the mapping application and I
need your help. I am using openlayers and with the help of so many examples and
extensive API, I am progressing very well. But, I have one request regarding
data. I do not know where can I get free global raw data that can use to
run my application offline; i.e downloading to my local computer and being able
to use it without connecting to the internet. Could you please give me some
pointers to where I can download and use the data locally. Another question I
have is how extensive is this data? If I can get countries/states/regional
boundaries, that would be sufficient for my application. Also, if there are any
premium data as well, I would like to get the pointers for their
sites.<BR><BR><BR>Thanks again,<BR>Feng<BR></BODY></HTML>
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