[postgis-users] new to postgris and GIS information systems and looking for info

[Ries van Twisk]

Markus Schaber wrote:

>Hi, Ries,
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>Ries van Twisk schrieb:
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>>What I want to do...
>>I have a DB with a lot of coordinates (long/lat) of city's and places
>>from all over the world....
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>PostGIS should serve fine as backend providing those data to a rendering
>frontend (e. G. mapserver).
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Cool.. I thought so already... :)

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>>What I'm looking for is province area information so I can draw lines of
>>countrys and provinces and place a big colorfull dot of the city where the user was looking for.
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>For the US, the Tiger data is a free, medium quality source of such
>information.
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Medium quality (for whatever that is...) is I think fine with us... W 
just wan't to show something nice to the user
so it has a idea of where a city is. No streets, realroads etc... are 
needed..

>For europe, our company has licensed the data from NavTeq, but expect to
>pay some money for them.
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I'll check it out... thanks...

>HTH,
>markus
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