[GRASS-user] Obtaining map files

andy1 · March 20, 2008, 10:34pm

Hello all

I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding beyond the spearfish files that are the default. Specifically, I'm looking for images for the UK.

Any ideas about where I can get these.

Sorry about the poor terminology. I am very much on a steep learning curve.

Cheers

Andy

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neteler · March 21, 2008, 9:12am

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

Hello all

I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding beyond
the spearfish files that are the default.

there is a new dataset available: OSGeo Edu dataset, North Carolina
http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php

Specifically, I'm looking for images for the UK.

It's not easy to find free European data. What do you specifically look for?
Some pointers:

http://openaerialmap.org/
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository

Best
Markus

andy1 · March 21, 2008, 10:50am

Markus Neteler wrote:

Hello all

 I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding beyond
 the spearfish files that are the default.


there is a new dataset available: OSGeo Edu dataset, North Carolina
[http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php](http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php)

Specifically, I'm looking for  images for the UK.


It's not easy to find free European data. What do you specifically look for?
Some pointers:

[http://openaerialmap.org/](http://openaerialmap.org/)
[http://www.openstreetmap.org/](http://www.openstreetmap.org/)
[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository](http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository)

Best
Markus

Thanks Markus

I’ll follow those links to see what I can come up with. I am looking particularly for images for SE London, but these do seem quite hard to locate. I was under the impression the British Ordinance Survey office had released their data to the public domain since we pay for it in our taxes, but I could be wrong.

If anything else occurs to you or others on this list, please don’t be shy about letting me know.

Many thanks

Andy

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Wolfgang · March 21, 2008, 10:54am

andy schrieb:

Markus Neteler wrote:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:


Hello all

I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding beyond
the spearfish files that are the default.

there is a new dataset available: OSGeo Edu dataset, North Carolina
http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php

Specifically, I'm looking for images for the UK.

It's not easy to find free European data. What do you specifically look for?
Some pointers:

http://openaerialmap.org/
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository

Best
Markus

Thanks Markus

I'll follow those links to see what I can come up with. I am looking particularly for images for SE London, but these do seem quite hard to locate. I was under the impression the British Ordinance Survey office had released their data to the public domain since we pay for it in our taxes, but I could be wrong.

If anything else occurs to you or others on this list, please don't be shy about letting me know.

Many thanks

Andy

I've not tested if these are still online.
Be careful what you download, some of these are many GB big.

regards
Wolfgang

     ecwp://www.earthetc.com/images/uk/EdinburghCastle10cm.ecw
     ecwp://www.earthetc.com/images/uk/Edinburgh_map.ecw
     ecwp://www.earthetc.com/images/uk/Edinburgh1m.ecw
     ecwp://www.earthetc.com/images/glasgow/Glasgow.ecw
     ecwp://www.earthetc.com/images/uk/London.ecw
     ecwp://www.earthetc.com/images/uk/standrews_1999.ecw
ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/emapsite/emapsite_panorama_tile_chooser.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/emapsite/gm_os_2m_gb.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/getmapping/getmapping_2m_gb.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/ordnance_survey/esitestreet.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/emapsite/emapsite_5km_tiles_dtm.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/emapsite/emapsite_20km_tiles.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/ordnance_survey/os_250k_gb.ecw
     ecwp://data.emapsite.com/images4/uk/ordnance_survey/os_50k_gb.ecw

Paul_Bivand · March 28, 2008, 5:43pm

UK maps remain problematic. While there seems to some possibility of changing
the regime that requires the Ordnance Survey to recoup its costs from Users
(mostly other bits of government) this hasn't happened yet.

However, the Office for National Statistics doesn't have the same requirements
and has some vector boundaries freely available. However, this is free as in
cost not free as in software, and the licence precludes stepping too hard on
Ordnance Survey's toes. Therefore boundaries are only available for
ONS-originated geographies - Census Output areas and Super Output areas.
There are lookup tables to local authority and various other boudary sets,
but Ordnance Survey owns the definitive boudary sets for higher level
geographies.

The relevant ONS web page is here

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/boundaries.asp

Paul Bivand

On Friday 21 Mar 2008, andy wrote:

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>> Hello all
>>
>> I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding beyond
>> the spearfish files that are the default.
>
> there is a new dataset available: OSGeo Edu dataset, North Carolina
> http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php
>
>> Specifically, I'm looking for images for the UK.
>
> It's not easy to find free European data. What do you specifically look
> for? Some pointers:
>
> http://openaerialmap.org/
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Repository
>
> Best
> Markus

Thanks Markus

I'll follow those links to see what I can come up with. I am looking
particularly for images for SE London, but these do seem quite hard to
locate. I was under the impression the British Ordinance Survey office
had released their data to the public domain since we pay for it in our
taxes, but I could be wrong.

If anything else occurs to you or others on this list, please don't be
shy about letting me know.

Many thanks

Andy

Hamish · March 28, 2008, 10:27pm

andy wrote:

I'm wanting to obtain image files with which to start proceeding
beyond the spearfish files that are the default.

...

Specifically, I'm looking for images for the UK.

You can try r.in.onearth (from wiki addons) or r.in.wms to get 30m
LANDSAT-7 imagery. Or try to find some other Quickbird or MODIS or ...?
satellite data from NASA.

I have seen some scripts to download from Google Maps as well.

Hamish

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