[MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest

evilbunny evilbunny at sydneywireless.com
Fri Dec 6 09:41:24 EST 2002


Hello Craig,

Yea, the free data is rather limited...

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Friday, December 6, 2002, 9:38:29 AM, you wrote:

CS> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:41:52PM +1100, evilbunny wrote:
>>   Since we can't seem to easily obtain decent mapping data, we're
>>   planning to actually create our own...
>> 
>>   The data will be fairly basic vector type layers that can be munched
>>   into something meaningful...

CS> there's a lot of free GIS data at the Geoscience Australia web site it's
CS> not "free" as in Free Software, but the license terms are quite
CS> reasonable.

CS> http://www.auslig.gov.au/download/

CS> (you have to register to get a login & password).  

CS> i've already downloaded the "Free Global Map Data Australia 1M 2001"
CS> collection and will start looking around for free GIS software to work
CS> with it.  i'm not sure whether this will be any use yet because i think
CS> that the 1M refers to 1:1000000 scale.  i suspect we'll need 1:100000 or
CS> better to be any use.

CS> craig
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