[mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

[Andrea Aime]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Edward Mac Gillavry <
emacgillavry at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Reinoud,
>
> For this, I'd recommend going with OpenStreetMap data (
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/). You can either download the whole data
> set for the world yourself and start building, or you can take mapping
> services from various suppliers. Check out http://www.switch2osm.org/ for
> further information. You'll be in good company!
>

I've also seen people download and use OSM data in locations where no
internet connection is available
(closed networks), they just downloaded the full OSM world file, imported
it in postgis using osm in a box,
and then used the osm in a box styles to map it with GeoServer.

If the dataset is too big and you just need to do low scale cartography the
"natural earth" dataset is also
quite good: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/

Cheers
Andrea

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