[Freegis-list] Free high-quality country and administrative boundaries

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:33:47AM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:57:14AM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > What is the best *free* data in the following categories ?
> > I'm listing the best thing I've found so far.
> 
> > * political and administrative boundaries
> > 	CIA WDB2 (ouch - needs something much better)
> 
> its likely that you will find non-global datasets
> that are better.
> 
> > * roads, railways etc.
> > 	hardly anything found
> 
> well, at least there is VMAPL0.

Be sure to get VMAP0 R5 from 2000, not an earlier one.
R means release level. AFAIK the freegis package with
countries etc is based on an older R3.

Best

 Markus