[Mapserver-users] maps of the US (west coast or more)

[Gerry Creager]

The Strategic Mapping Initiative (StratMap) has a pretty good selection 
of Texas maps available in the public domain.  The majority are 
available in .e0 form.

http://www.tnris.state.tx.us/digital.htm

Gerry

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> Jeramie Gatchell wrote:
> 
> 
>> I finally got the mapserver running thanks a TON for all the help.
>>
> Great, congratulations.
> 
>>
>> Does anyone know where I can get maps (down to the street level) for 
>> the US (just need the west coast area for now, but all would be fine 
>> too)?  I found a place that sells the tiger data for $60, which is 
>> perfectly fine with me if this is the data I need.
> 
> 
> you can down load tiger data from the US census for free, but is is not 
> very useful except as a base to convert to shapefiles. Other people have 
> used ogr2ogr to convert tiger data to shapefiles. ogr2ogr is part of the 
> gdal distribution. You can also download some Census data in shapefile 
> format like state, county, and various other polygon boundary files. 
> There is also other data available from the various free download sites 
> for gis data.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=gis+data+shapefile+download
> 
> -Steve W.
> 
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