[postgis-users] UK & Australia Geo dataset

[Dan Putler]

Hi G. Lu,

At this moment, only the US and Canadian governments have provided  
public geodata of the type you are hoping for. If you are interested  
in road network data, you might look at www.openstreetmap.org (which  
is generally known as OSM). This is an international volunteer effort  
to create a road network file for the entire planet (this largely  
involves people working with consumer market GPS units, but there are  
people involved in importing the US TIGER/Line data into OSM). The  
project started in the UK, so the UK road network has been more  
extensively mapped by OSMers then anywhere else (but still not to the  
level of coverage that TIGER/Line data is available for the US).  
OSMers are also becoming very active in other parts of Europe, and  
elsewhere. Each week the project makes a public release of their  
database (known as PlanetOSM). The database uses a XML format that  
the project developed for their own purposes (OSM XML). However,  
software has been written to import OSM data into other formats. You  
can get more information on PlanetOSM at http:// 
wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm

Dan Putler

On 6-Apr-07, at 9:42 PM, Ray G. Lu wrote:

> Dear PostGISers
>
> Does anyone have got information about,
> where can we get the Geo dataset from UK and Australia?
> The datasets I am talking about is like "TIGER/Line" dataset,
> of couse the dataset doesnt have to have same format as Tiger/LINE.
>
> I expect the datasets are from an official goverment department.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> G. LU
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