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

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

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On 13/01/10 01:19, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote:
> 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,

Take a look on the OSGeo Live DVD[1] for the FOSS4G at Sidney. I think
it had Sidney geodata probably useful.

Of course you can always use the classic North Carolina data set[2],
the geonames project[3] and review the Public Geospatial Data
Project[4] at OSGeo wiki.

Hope it helps
[1] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/
[2] http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php
[3] http://www.geonames.org/
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project


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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
http://es.osgeo.org
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

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