[OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)]

Bruce,

I have been looking at the GeoScience Australia Downloads but all these 
are too broad for most of what I do. Need something at 1:25,000 or better.

I suppose the biggest problem is aerial photography. What little is out 
there is very broad scale regional stuff. Nothing showing just one small 
area at a scale typically used by people such as myself.

I am aware of the Australia Spatial Directory but I was hoping to find 
some freely downloadable and free to use datasets, before I go begging 
to data suppliers or data custodians.

Cheers Simon

Simon Cropper
Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
mailto: scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au 
<mailto:scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au>
web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au>


On 13/01/2010 11:07 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> Simon,
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> Check out the Australian Spatial Data Directory [1].
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> Geoscience Australia also have a wide range of datasets that I understand are now available via Creative Commons.
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> Bruce Bannerman
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> [1] http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/tech/zap/basic.html
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Simon
>> Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
>> Sent: Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:36 AM
>> To: OSGeo Discussions; Users and Developers mailing list
>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where
>> I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> *** Sorry for cross-posting for those people on both lists ***
>>
>> Does anyone have or know of some high resolution vector and
>> raster data that can be used in tutorials?
>>
>> The datasets need to be unfetted by intellectual property
>> constraints.
>>
>> Essentially I want to build a set of tutorials around this
>> data and have the users able to download and manipulate the
>> data without breaking any laws.
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>> Preferably I would like data for Australia, even better
>> southeast Australia.
>>
>> Data
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>> *	georeferenced aerial photography (ECW or JPG, 0.15m/pixel)
>> *	shapefiles showing cadastral data, soils, contours, roads
>> *	DWG files showing details of a development or plan
>>
>> Spatial Reference System
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>> *	GDA94 MGA55
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>> -- 
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>> Cheers Simon
>>
>> Simon Cropper
>> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
>> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
>> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
>> mailto: scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au
>> <mailto:scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au>
>> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
>> <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au>
>>
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