[Gvsig_english] HELP PLEASE - Does anyone know where I can get high resolution GIS data for use in tutorials?

[Joseph Reeves]

Hi Simon,

I can't help with everything, but I'll make a couple of suggestions.

For road data, CloudMade produce shapefile exports from OpenStreetMap:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/oceania/australia

OSM is pretty exciting in Oz at the moment as there's a lot of users
tracing data from some superb NearMap imagery.

For topographic data there's Nasa's SRTM: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

As an example, the very nice Summer in Kabul mapping was based on
those two sources:
http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/nov/02/summer-kabul

Cheers, Joseph




2010/1/12 Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
<scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au>:
> Hi,
>
> *** Sorry for cross-posting for those people on both lists ***
>
> Does anyone have or know of some high resolution vector and raster data that
> can be used in tutorials?
>
> The datasets need to be unfetted by intellectual property constraints.
>
> Essentially I want to build a set of tutorials around this data and have the
> users able to download and manipulate the data without breaking any laws.
>
> Preferably I would like data for Australia, even better southeast Australia.
>
> Data
>
> georeferenced aerial photography (ECW or JPG, 0.15m/pixel)
> shapefiles showing cadastral data, soils, contours, roads
> DWG files showing details of a development or plan
>
> Spatial Reference System
>
> GDA94 MGA55
>
> --
>
> Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
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