[MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest

[paul van den bergen]

I have an interest in Geology as well (mineral collecting mostly).  while 
growing in popularity, use of GPSs is still somewhat limited in this respect 
as regards to readily available data for mines, etc. personally I can see a 
use for such data (from any source I can get it) to augment such activities.



On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:38 am, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:41:52PM +1100, evilbunny wrote:
> >   Since we can't seem to easily obtain decent mapping data, we're
> >   planning to actually create our own...
> >
> >   The data will be fairly basic vector type layers that can be munched
> >   into something meaningful...
>
> there's a lot of free GIS data at the Geoscience Australia web site it's
> not "free" as in Free Software, but the license terms are quite
> reasonable.
>
> http://www.auslig.gov.au/download/
>
> (you have to register to get a login & password).
>
> i've already downloaded the "Free Global Map Data Australia 1M 2001"
> collection and will start looking around for free GIS software to work
> with it.  i'm not sure whether this will be any use yet because i think
> that the 1M refers to 1:1000000 scale.  i suspect we'll need 1:100000 or
> better to be any use.
>
> craig

-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
caia.swin.edu.au
pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
would somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?

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