[Freegis-list] Germany Shape files?

[Markus Neteler]

Hi all,

here a personal mail I received: Does anyone know where to get
second level boundaries for Germany (and other countries)?

Arnolds suggestion might be interesting for "freegis.org":
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 07:14:51PM +0200, ROSIELLE, ARNOLD A [AG/5040] wrote:
> Markus - here is the url - where you can get the first level admin.
> boundaries for Germany and second level for some countries (e.g. France).
> The only suggestion I have found for the second level is to buy it from ESRI
> (800DM for a lot of stuff I will never use).    If you can find the second
> level boundary shape file somewhere in the public domain I'd appreciate
> knowing it.  
> 
> Regards
> 
> Arnold
> 
> http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/EIshape.htm 
>