[OSGeo Africa] Zambia information request

[Gavin]

Hi Gilbert

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 10:58 -0500, Gilbert Makungo wrote:

> hello everyone, I am new to the mailing list so I am not fully
> familiar with the protocol involved so please bare with me. 


no worries, perfectly good question.


>  I wanted to know if anyone would be able to help me get spatial data
> about Zambia or at least point me in the right direction.  I've
> recently discovered Openlayers and all the interesting things you can
> do with maps and would like to see what I can create for Zambia.  Any
> kind of Zambian data would be great.  thank you in advance for your
> help


Some free and open general sources to start with include:
http://www.naturalearthdata.com
http://osm.org
 http://worldmap.harvard.edu/ 
http://www.fao.org/geonetwork 

There are lots more - just do some searching.  





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