I have an application where I need some street-level maps of Sydney (other 
capital cities would be nice, too; Melbourne and Brisbane, in particular) in 
a format that I can decipher via some code, or where there exist Linux 
libraries or other tools to do the decoding for me.

I've already purchased some Sydney and ACT street-level maps on CD ROM, with 
some software that runs under Windows, called "MapSend".  However, the data 
is in some binary form.

What I'm trying to do is get portions of the maps into the form of PalmPilot 
bitmaps (not sure whether that is equivalent to some standard and hence 
whether tools exist to do so, or whether I'll have to write some code once I 
have the data).

I also bought a CD ROM of Geodata 2000 release 2, which has maps at a scale 
of 1 : 250 000 of much of Australia.  Again, though, I don't know the format 
of the data it contains.

It could be that the CDs I already have are using a standard format that's 
specified somewhere, but being cartographically challenged, I wouldn't know.

In any case, can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA,

Harry O.
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