You can either use the google API and call it's maps via WMS which is all
free as long as the maps are public facing and you're not expecting millions
of hits per month. Alternatively you can use Open Street Map
http://www.openstreetmap.org for which the data is free to download and use
as you want and you can use their WMS server to provide the images or use
something like geoserver to do it yourself. The open street map data set is
not complete but is pretty close for London and many other major UK cities
and is almost certainly perfect for your needs.
Tom
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:02 PM, fx5900 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi guys,
>
> I am curious to know, i would like to obtain geographical data to show a
> road map of surrounding Londons' University of
> Westminster(http://www.nabble.com/forum/NewTopic.jtp?forum=4263) , but
> question is where exactly would google obtain this? How could you obtain
> this freely? Also how would you normally store this? As image file, vector
> or raster in a db?
>
> Thanks
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