[Freegis-list] Free data sources wanted (was SRTM FTP site gone or moved?)

[Brian Wilson]

> hmm... guess the US military will withdraw it, because of the terrorism 
> threat or some similar fake excuse

Really now, that's not an issue is it? Can you think of a terrorist
attack that could not be accomplished in the US with a 1978 AAA Road Atlas?

They give away all kinds of cool spatial data here, at very high
resolutions and in great detail, and the trend is still towards more
data becoming available. I guess the corporations don't consider it
competition so no one cares. They probably have access to data that
make what I get for free look like a felt pen drawing on a used
cocktail napkin.

Outside US I can understand why I can't get good data for areas where
there is not much infrastructure (say Belize) -- it does not exist or
is "classified" by their gov but where is free downloadable data for
Europe? According my carto teacher it's all copyrighted and locked
away...  please please prove him wrong and send me your URL's!  Just a
portal site would be fine. One day I hope to be able to use the 'data'
area of FreeGIS.org for this; currently it is boring 90% US and/or
small-scale world data.  ("Inside Idaho", yippee-eye-oh-kay-yay)

Brian