[Freegis-list] Bad link/Server mis-configured

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:

> I will ask Bruce about this.

Thanks Jan.

> There is an alternative however:
> http://freegis.org/details.en.html?name=TIGER/Line+1997

I think I looked at this but I'm trying again right now.

> It is quite important which type of data you ar looking for
> (which resolution, features). The situation about free geo-data
> is bad in general, but for the US more comfortable than for the
> rest of the world.

Well I do have some semi-public data I got while working forthe US
Forest Service.  They used MOSS before moving to the ESRI stuff so I've
got a bunch of USGS Quad level stuff (vector) for the National Forest
Lands of North Idaho.  I can't remember the standards - accuracy, etc.
   I also have the DEMs for the same areas.

When I get PostGIS installed I am planning on sharing the data via the
Internet.

> Many public or university libraries in the US offer hundreds
> of CDs with geo-data to copy.

I've worked with one locally but they were very unsure about sharing
their data - copyright laws, etc.  I'll be checking with some others and
persuing this one a little more indepth.

> The FreeGIS project has concentrated on software far more
> than on data by now. I added the need to refine the data
> situation and availability to the todo list.

This sounds great.

What I would like to see is a mostly seamless GIS/Mapping database(s) -
as in not delimited by USGS Quad and other _standards_ edges - that
could be queried for data to be pulled back locally and processed.  My
main interest is in creating custom (recreational) maps.
   Enough rambling.

Again thanks for checking on this.


Rod
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