Better Looking Maps

[Dean Gadoury]

I have worked with Tiger data and found that although it is not as high
quality as the commercial products it is detailed enough for most street
level mapping applications. There are even commercial locator services
out there using Tiger data. It is the only free, street level data
source for the USA I know of. There are other places to get the data too:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html
http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/
Dean


Sandeep Bashyal wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:30:52 -0600, Don Drake <dondrake at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> I've been working with Mapserver for the last few months and I like
>> what it can do when displaying my data stored in a PostGIS db.
>>
>> What I need is the maps to look more presentable.  My maps cover the
>> USA and I need road data, city data, airport data, etc.  The road data
>> really needs all streets, not just major highways.
>>
>> Can you provide some example of making better looking symbols?
>>
>> I have some data I've found on some USGS sites, but it's lacking
>> detail when zoomed to the street-level.  Is there a place that has
>> this in a .shp file?
>>
>> Any commercial mapserver alternatives that would run on Linux?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Don
>>
>>
>
> I don't know what level of accuracy you require but the ESRI website has
> downloadable Census 2000 TIGER/Line data in shapefile format for free.
>
> http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/
>
>
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