Hi Yves, been away and sick, so a late response...
Not sure whether you want a GIS package or data. On the data side, there is a global name place DB by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency that has name places (but not ZIPs) and some centroid coordinates (rounded to the minute--about 2 km). I used this extensively for a project for FAO... On the SW side, someone has already pointed out GRASS and the free gis site (can't remember URL--Freshmeat shoudl have it) where you find most free packages indexed. GRASS is quite nice--but mostly raster and really hard core (I used it for some things). Something not listed anywhere is a free (as in beer) Brasilian GIS that is multiplatform and called SPRING. Not great but I believe usable. If you let me know in more detail what you want to do, I'll answer more... ciao --bud On Monday 25 February 2002 01:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > slightly off topic but I would like to tap into the common knowledge of > bright people of this list. > > I am looking for geocodes for Europe on the basis of country, city or zip > and the possibility to put them on European maps. Do any of you know if > such a database already exists in Open Source? or the software to do this? > > I saw that there is an initiative called open gis (www.opengis.org) but it > just seems to be a standard body of GIS companies. I also think that the > state of Florida did something alike (cf. a recent ieee computer mag). > > It's just slightly off topic: for a health authority, having the ability to > map cases of specific disease outbreaks, ... or types of interventions > helps the capacity planning... even if I'm not using it in this context > right now. > > Thank you! > > -Yves
