[OSGeo Africa] Zambia information request
Reinier Battenberg
reinier.battenberg at mountbatten.net
Mon Feb 20 00:52:53 EST 2012
to add a little to that, you can download relatively recent OSM data in
several formats (including shapefiles) from
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/africa/
pre continent or per country.
On Sunday 19 February 2012 17:49:37 Gavin wrote:
> 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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> > Africa at lists.osgeo.org
> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa
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