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Posted by Le Chaud Lapin on December 4, 2007, 1:42 am
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Hi All,
Even if I am biased, I must say that I am impressed with the work that
the USA Census and its partner organizations have done with producing
the TIGER/Line database, especially since it is free.
Not to berate the governments of other countries, but my guess is that
the existence of such databases or the quality and completeness
thereof will drop significantly as per-capita GDP of the country
drops. Is this true?
To what extent have other countries created (free) analogous
databases?
TIA,
Reference: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2006se/tgr2006se.html
-Le Chuad Lapin-
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Posted by Jeremy Parker on January 19, 2008, 6:23 pm
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> Hi All,
>
> Even if I am biased, I must say that I am impressed with the work
> that
> the USA Census and its partner organizations have done with
> producing
> the TIGER/Line database, especially since it is free.
[snip]
Because of the attitude of many governments to their data, there is
now an organization called Open Street Map www.opernstreetmap.org in
competition, using a model similar to open source software. Here in
Britain it's getting remarkably good, remarkably quickly.
People also copy maps old enough to be out of copyright. Some things
don't change.
Jeremy Parker
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Posted by Jeremy Parker on January 21, 2008, 3:03 pm
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but should have written
> Because of the attitude of many governments to their data, there is
> now an organization called Open Street Map www.openstreetmap.org
sorry for the typo
Jeremy Parker
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Posted by Le Chaud Lapin on January 22, 2008, 6:33 pm
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> but should have written
>
> > Because of the attitude of many governments to their data, there is
> > now an organization called Open Street Mapwww.openstreetmap.org
>
> sorry for the typo
Thanks for the link...but...I need the raw data itself, not the maps.
There are maps everywhere. :)
-Le Chaud Lapin-
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Posted by Jeremy Parker on January 23, 2008, 4:17 pm
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> wrote:
>>
>> but should have written
>>
>> > Because of the attitude of many governments to their data, there
>> > is
>> > now an organization called Open Street Mapwww.openstreetmap.org
>>
>> sorry for the typo
>
> Thanks for the link...but...I need the raw data itself, not the
> maps.
> There are maps everywhere. :)
>
> -Le Chaud Lapin-
Well, if it's open, working to the principles of the GPL, or
whatever, then I presume the raw data would be open too. You would
have to look at the Open Street Maps stuff to find out more
Jeremy Parker
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