[Freegis-list] Where ho get geodata 4 Germany

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Thomas Sebastian wrote:
> i'm pretty new in working with gis.
> i installed the FGS-Package from maptools.org and it is working pretty 
> good.
> but now i need the maps of my city ( leipzig/germany ).
> Now my question: does  anybody  have a hind  where to get (open-source) 
> maps for free ?
> I'm part of the Freifunk in Leipzig ( http://leipzig.freifunk.net ), and 
> want to create a map  where all our hot-spots and the network between is 
> shown.

I am afraid, but you won't find any detailed maps
for Leipzig as free data (as in Free Software).
AFAIK, only for Berlin and Osnabrück are detailed
vectordata available.
Maybe you find some aerial raster images of your city,
but these are usually also not free. Sometimes
your find low-cost or even gratis stuff, but have a look
at the licenses - you might not be allowed to publish these
on the Internet.

Finally, you might consider using one of those services
where you use maps from somewhere else and draw your
points of interest on. There are two options for this.
Either you send your POIs somewhere and they are drawn
on a map by some services or you find e.g. a WMS Internet
resource for Leipzig, set up your own Web Mapping application
and integrate the WMS resource drawing your POIs yourself
onto the map.

Best

	Jan

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