Better Looking Maps

[Don Drake]

Thanks for all of the replies.

I'll be contacting a few of you directly for more information.

-Don


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:33:57 -0500, Dean Gadoury
<dgadoury at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> 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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> Dean Gadoury
>
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>
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