[Freegis-list] German data

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Matthias Schäfer wrote:
> > I am a student of the University of Konstanz at Germany. For
> > my studies I need data about the coordinates of the German
> > "Bundeslaender". In the WWW there are always the complete
> > maps, but not the coordinates for them. Perhaps you could
> > help me and tell me where I can found data about this. I
> > would be very glad about your help.
> 
> the FreeGIS project is primarily interested in Free GeoData
> analog to Free Software. Unfortunately there are little
> useful free geogrpahic for areas other than the US.
> 
> For political boundaries this is even more annyoing since
> these geographic information are defined, not measured and
> thus should not be owned by anyone resticting the rights to
> use so drastically as it is the case e.g. for Europe.
> 
> For the meantime you will have to get proprietary data
> with all the restrictions.
> 
> There might be some less precise free data out there ...
> I would be happy to learn about such.

Hi,

probably these data are interesting:
http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/grid/all.html

Copyright ©UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva

Even if not free as we dream of, but interesting.

Cheers

 Markus