[postgis-users] UK & Australia Geo dataset

[Dan Putler]

For commercial or fee based "semi-public" data you have some choices.  
The Ordinance Survey is the UK's (now quasi-private) national mapping  
agency, and my guess is they would be happy to sell shapefiles to you  
under license. The same is likely to be true for both TeleAtlas and  
Naveteq.

Dan Putler

On 6-Apr-07, at 10:59 PM, Ray G. Lu wrote:

> 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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