[Freegis-list] vmap0 copyright

[Benoit Véler]

Hello to all,

         and thanks very much for your replies to my question about vmap0 
and dcw copyrights. To resume these replies, it appears that actually only 
Vmap0 is free of copyright, DCW being copyrighted by Esri.
         The only drawback is that a part of Vmap0 is also copyrighted by 
Esri, the boundaries layers (and particularly the regional boundaries 
layers). See the text below, which is contained inside the readme1 file 
that you can find inside the v0eur repertory.

         I have found two other sources for free world data :

         http://www.iscgm.org (for non profit organizations)

         http://www.intramap.co.nz/atlas/freeworldmaps.html (I haven't 
checked, but according to the adress, it should be quite interesting).

         Thanks for all,

         Ben.

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