Jamie Honan wrote:
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> Free map data for Australia would be really cool.
The closest you will come is the AusLIG CD for $99? Has raster images at
1:250K. You need that other OS to extract data. I've had a quick look at
it and thought it was terrible and probably only good for a wall map.
I'm looking for something I can overlay bicycle touring information on.
When I explained what I wanted it for, AusLIG mumbled something about
$1/map for each download - right skip that.
> 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.
The Geographic Information Systems industry is dominated by US companies
because the US governement took this approach. They have all this data
to play around with to develop product to sell. Australia has a USER
PAYS approach.
The expensive part in GIS is data acquisition. The real problem with
data from various sources is getting it all to match up - this is very
big problem.
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