[postgis-users] UK & Australia Geo dataset

[Ray G. Lu]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the email,

Btw do you know in euro or UK if there is a source of most accurate dataset?
I don't mind it cost or not,  as long as the data is reliable and quite
complete.


Regards,

G LU

On 4/7/07, Dan Putler <putler at sauder.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> 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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Ray G. Lu
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Ray G. Lu
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