> Has anyone used the CDROM version of the UBD Street > Directory ? I'd like to hear opinions on the format used here, > do you suppose it's vector or raster based ?
Haven't seen this particular one, but I imagine it is vector format in mapinfo format. From memory, one of the formats is fully defined and in ascii. (unlikely to be the one on CD). Free map data for Australia would be really cool. A lot of the stuff comes from 'Public Sector Mapping Agencies'. The dept of lands for each state has the survey info for every 'parcel of land' - called cadastral data. The RTA, the railways, water board, county councils, every bloody department has some mapping data, none of it co-ordinated except by commercial bodies. Try PSMA, ANZLIC, AUSLIG in your search engine. Also mapinfo. None of it is free, yet we've already paid for it. The copyright must be a fine line. The raw data just is : the collation, the presentation is probably where the copyright applies. I've never understood why cycling groups don't get together with a few GPS recievers and make some really nice cycling maps. For personal use, you could 'screen scrape' some whereis queries : e.g. using whitepages. Jamie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
