[GRASS-user] Obtaining map files

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, andy <geek_show at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hello all
>
>  I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding beyond
>  the spearfish files that are the default.

there is a new dataset available: OSGeo Edu dataset, North Carolina
http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php

> Specifically, I'm looking for  images for the UK.

It's not easy to find free European data. What do you specifically look for?
Some pointers:

http://openaerialmap.org/
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository

Best
Markus