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[Feng Wong]

I

Hello all,
I asked this question from openlayers list and been advised to send the same question to geodata list. Here is my question

I am  a newbie to the mapping application and I need your help. I am using openlayers and with the help of so many examples and extensive API, I am progressing very well. But, I have one request regarding data. I do not know where can I get free global raw data that  can use to run my application offline; i.e downloading to my local computer and being able to use it without connecting to the internet. Could you please give me some pointers to where I can download and use the data locally. Another question I have is how extensive is this data?  If I can get countries/states/regional boundaries, that would be sufficient for my application. Also, if there are any premium data as well, I would like to get the pointers for their sites.


Thanks again,
Feng

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[Keith Jenkins]

Hi, Feng.

For worldwide administrative boundaries, try:
    http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_home.htm

The SALB dataset is free for non-commercial use.  One thing to watch
for is that the precision may vary from country to country, since the
data is being compiled from many different sources...

Keith


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Feng Wong <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I
>
> Hello all,
> I asked this question from openlayers list and been advised to send the same
> question to geodata list. Here is my question
>
> I am  a newbie to the mapping application and I need your help. I am using
> openlayers and with the help of so many examples and extensive API, I am
> progressing very well. But, I have one request regarding data. I do not know
> where can I get free global raw data that  can use to run my application
> offline; i.e downloading to my local computer and being able to use it
> without connecting to the internet. Could you please give me some pointers
> to where I can download and use the data locally. Another question I have is
> how extensive is this data?  If I can get countries/states/regional
> boundaries, that would be sufficient for my application. Also, if there are
> any premium data as well, I would like to get the pointers for their sites.
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Feng
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[Keith Jenkins]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that the SALB data is only downloadable
country-by-country.

If you actually want the whole world, GADM has a single-file download:
    http://biogeo.berkeley.edu/gadm/

Keith


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Keith Jenkins <[hidden email]> wrote:
> For worldwide administrative boundaries, try:
>    http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_home.htm
>
> The SALB dataset is free for non-commercial use.  One thing to watch
> for is that the precision may vary from country to country, since the
> data is being compiled from many different sources...
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[Andrew Turner-2]

Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

There is a large amount of data (>6000 datasets) to download for free from GeoCommons, http://finder.geocommons.com

You can get Shapefile or KML for use in OpenLayers.

Andrew

On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:38 AM, "Feng Wong" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I

Hello all,
I asked this question from openlayers list and been advised to send the same question to geodata list. Here is my question

I am  a newbie to the mapping application and I need your help. I am using openlayers and with the help of so many examples and extensive API, I am progressing very well. But, I have one request regarding data. I do not know where can I get free global raw data that  can use to run my application offline; i.e downloading to my local computer and being able to use it without connecting to the internet. Could you please give me some pointers to where I can download and use the data locally. Another question I have is how extensive is this data?  If I can get countries/states/regional boundaries, that would be sufficient for my application. Also, if there are any premium data as well, I would like to get the pointers for their sites.


Thanks again,
Feng

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[hamish-2]

Feng Wong wrote:
> I have one request regarding data. I do not know
> where can I get free global raw data

try  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets


if you can find "admin98.zip" on the internet somewhere, it has political
boundaries.


Hamish



     

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[Nathan Gerber]

The Center for Disease Control released new political boundaries in 2000 which can be found here: http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/shape.htm

The World by Country file is a shape file of all countries. The World by State has the states and territory boundaries for all of the countries.
--
Nathan Gerber

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Hamish <[hidden email]> wrote:

Feng Wong wrote:
> I have one request regarding data. I do not know
> where can I get free global raw data

try  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets


if you can find "admin98.zip" on the internet somewhere, it has political
boundaries.


Hamish

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[Feng Wong]

Thanks everyone for your help on this. I will visit those sites and I hope that I will be able to get what I am looking for.

Thanks again,
Feng

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Hamish <[hidden email]> wrote:

Feng Wong wrote:
> I have one request regarding data. I do not know
> where can I get free global raw data

try  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets


if you can find "admin98.zip" on the internet somewhere, it has political
boundaries.


Hamish

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[Scot Wilcoxon]

http://mappinghacks.com/data/ has admin98.zip as well as the newer
country boundaries TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.2.zip

Feng Wong wrote:

> Thanks everyone for your help on this. I will visit those sites and I
> hope that I will be able to get what I am looking for.
>
> Thanks again,
> Feng
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Hamish <[hidden email]
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>     Feng Wong wrote:
>     > I have one request regarding data. I do not know
>     > where can I get free global raw data
>
>     try  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets
>
>
>     if you can find "admin98.zip" on the internet somewhere, it has
>     political
>     boundaries.
>
>
>     Hamish
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[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Scot Wilcoxon <[hidden email]> wrote:
> http://mappinghacks.com/data/ has admin98.zip as well as the newer country
> boundaries TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.2.zip

...and grab enhanced TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.zip at:
 http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php

Markus
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