[GRASS-user] Re: Any freely available topographical maps for (South-) Germany ?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 19:01 -0700, Hamish wrote:
> WolfgangZ wrote:
> > Yes the server provides only white images when less then 2
> > meter / pixel resolution.
> 
> the DOP photo layer worked for me even at 2 arcsec resolution and appropriate region. the topo maps seemed more insistent at being at a sane resolution for the given data.
> 
> 
> > I used a own written script which downloads the
> > images with some overlap to get rid of the copy right notice.
> 
> using r.in.wms's default http POST method instead of the -g flag's GET method returned images without the (c) plastered on every tile.
> 
> 
> 
> > There was also some time ago a library to convert the data
> > from the "Top50" CDs that you can purchase for low money,
> > but that is offline again ;-( http://libmpr.origo.ethz.ch .
> 
> maybe the wayback machine helps?
>  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://libmpr.origo.ethz.ch
> 
> (but it's offline too right now :)
> 
> 
> Hamish

Great!!! Thanks to all ;-)