[Freegis-list] RE: Free geographic data

[Adrian Custer]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 11:27, YC Nyon wrote:
> Hi,
> I got 2 questions.
> 
> 1. I remember there were some party doing up free street data in Canada (i
> think). The aim was for everyone to contribute
> some data that would be available for others. Anyone got the url?
> 
> 2. Regarding to the intention of 'giving' data in exchange for others, will
> it work. www.communityupdate.com is one example.
> A simpler example would be MapXchange at Nationalgeographic.com. These days,
> collecting data is so easy with GPS. If we could
> 'split' the work and get a application to combine all these data, then data
> wouldn't be so difficult to get.
> Like to hear opinions. I am from Southeast Asia, so there is not GDT or
> Navtech.

Yeah, this has occurred to a lot of us. Only it's not that simple
because there needs to be some editing/evaluation of the stuff as it
comes in. Take a look at the cooperative gis {should be gps} project:
http://gis.anu.edu.au/
and the thread on the mailinglist starting at:
http://www.intevention.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-March/000312.html
Also check out the project on a street map of Oslo and for all your
other needs "search" on freegis.org is your friend,

--adrian

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> Nyon
> 
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