On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:36:11AM +1100, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: > 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?
MassGIS. http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm Ortho imagery up to 15cm. DEMs. Vector data, including every road in the state, water, parks, and everything down to Abandoned Cranberry Bogs (yes, really). There isn't a better source of unfettered high quality GIS data around. (Okay, maybe there is, but since I live in Mass... not one that I care about :)) > 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. > mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au > <mailto:scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au> > web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss