[Qgis-user] How to covnert .jpg/.png to .shp

[Mike Swope]

http://download.geofabrik.de/ and http://download.cloudmade.com/ for the OSM
data.

<http://download.cloudmade.com/>Note, the natural earth data, just select
the polygons/countries you want and create a new file with that?


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:37 AM, emigrant <fromwindowstolinux at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:07 +0200, Micha Silver wrote:
> > There are lots of places to look for freely available GIS data. One
> > of
> > the popular one's is Open Streetmap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
> > OSM data are not shapefiles, but QGIS can read them.
> >
> > Another source for small scale maps (size of a whole country or
> > continent) is:
> > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
> > Their layers *are* shapefiles.
>
> Thank you very much for the reply.
> the first link seems does not have any option to download. the second
> link offers large pack of data. Which I think consist maps of all the
> countries.
> Is there anyway I can get the shapefile of South Asia alone?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
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