On 10/20/05, David Mendels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Claus,
Not open source, so this may not be of interest, but the folks from ESRI
( http://www.esri.com/) were at MAX showing a extensive set of public web
services for map and route data together with a set of UI components in
Flex, and SWF/Vector based maps which they converted from original
source data. It will be available fairly soon (a bit later this year).
That said, it isn't open source, so forgive me if irrelevent to you.
-David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Claus Wahlers
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:08 AM
> To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
> Subject: [osflash] GIS data
>
> Anyone here into GIS?
> I'm searching for up-to-date (!), free (!), detailed and complete
> (world) vector data of administrative country borders,
> possibly also state/river/lake data.
> Searching through heaps of bullshit edu/gov/mil sites, the
> most appropriate match i found would be the "Digital Chart of
> the World", or VMAP0 (from nga.mil), a gigabyte-sized, quite
> detailed collection of more or less everything. The problem
> is that the VPF format they use is rather sophisticated and
> complicated, and there are no free tools to convert it into a
> simpler format such as SHP (there is one, MICRODEM, but it
> refuses to work on my machine). I'd much prefer a less
> sophisticated SHP format (i found numerous SHP resources, but
> most of them are either incomplete, outdated or payware).
> The alternative would be to sit down a few months and grok
> VPF to write a VPF2SHP converter, extracting the data
> relevant for me, but i wouldn't really want to do that ;) Anyone?
> cheers,
> claus.
>
> ps: i'm thinking about writing an open source worldmap
> app/component for fp8.5/flex, just in case anyone would want
> to join me
>
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