[OSGeo-Edu] TIGER and status on my FOSS GIS course materials

[Markus Neteler]

On 12/8/06, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at tkk.fi> wrote:
> Charlie Schweik wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:15 -0500, Gary Watry wrote:
> >
> >> TIGER Data is built off  the U.S. Census data and covers just the U.S.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I was pretty much certain that was the case. I'm just trying to
> > think about various international "data inputs" to GIS related to
> > social/demographic data and wondered if there was any census data
> > standards emerging in the EU or elsewhere or if all countries appear to
> > be doing this differently.
> >
> I forgot the NUTS:
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/comm/eurostat/ramon/nuts/introduction_regions_en.html
>
> which is a common European system for demographic data and is not
> regular grid.


There is a small problem with NUTS-3: EuroGeographics is charging
22000 Euro for a single user *license* for that...:
http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/04_sabe_buying.asp
-> https://upd.geodatenzentrum.de/gdz/gdz_home1.gdz_home_start5_euro?gdz_home_spr=eng&gdz_home_para0=&gdz_home_para1=Customized%A0Packages&gdz_home_menu_nr=4&gdz_home_menu_nr2=2&gdz_home_para3=https://upd.geodatenzentrum.de/auftrupd/shopupdate1.shop_bear_start_euro?shop_mark=0!shop_para6=1!shop_sprache=eng
->  EuroBoundaryMap [scale 1:100 000]

(click through..., then)
EBM [scale 1:100 000] - EUR25
Display of selected parameters
Content 	Total content
Georeferencing 	GEO84
Format 	ArcInfo-EXPORT
Spatial structuring 	EU Countries
Area 	6158035 km²
Data medium 	DVD
Usage 	Single User Licence

Amount of data 	295,4 MB
Data carrier 	DVD
Licences 	Single User Licence
License price* 	22300,00 €

A bit discouraging for me...

NUTS-1 and NUTS-2 can be roughly extracted from VMAP0.

Markus