[Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement

[Andrew Chapman]

Hi Noli

Ordnance Survey has confirmed that the best URL for sample files is
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/innovations/discoverdata.
html#mastermap.

Andrew
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From: Noli Sicad [mailto:nsicad at gmail.com] 
Sent: 04 March 2011 05:59
To: Andrew Chapman
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement

Hi Andrew,

> To encourage take-up for both GIS and QGIS, it may help if there were
> tutorials to take a new user of GIS through the steps to download data
from
> Ordnance Survey (probably only in GZ format for the topology layers).
> To date I've been getting data as shapefiles - when I last tried (an
earlier
> version) QGIS wouldn't load .gz and the support for .gml may have been
> incomplete.
> Is anyone else using Ordnance Survey .gz files directly?
> Would the best advice for users new to GIS be to convert to shapefiles or
> use a database (something I've not yet managed to do)?
> Are there any UK users involved with town or parish councils?

I think it would be wise to put an example of this OS gz file so we
can try if we can open it with QGIS. Just a very simple example of the
file :-).

Then, post the URL where we can  download it.

Noli 
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