[osflash] GIS data

[Johannes Nel]

does the esri stuff plugin directly into arcinfo?

On 10/20/05, David Mendels <dmendels at macromedia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Claus,
>
> Not open source, so this may not be of interest, but the folks from ESRI
> (http://www.esri.com/) were at MAX showing a extensive set of public web
> services for map and route data together with a set of UI components in
> Flex, and SWF/Vector based maps which they converted from original
> source data. It will be available fairly soon (a bit later this year).
> That said, it isn't open source, so forgive me if irrelevent to you.
>
> -David
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org
> > [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf Of Claus Wahlers
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:08 AM
> > To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
> > Subject: [osflash] GIS data
> >
> > Anyone here into GIS?
> > I'm searching for up-to-date (!), free (!), detailed and complete
> > (world) vector data of administrative country borders,
> > possibly also state/river/lake data.
> > Searching through heaps of bullshit edu/gov/mil sites, the
> > most appropriate match i found would be the "Digital Chart of
> > the World", or VMAP0 (from nga.mil <http://nga.mil>), a gigabyte-sized,
> quite
> > detailed collection of more or less everything. The problem
> > is that the VPF format they use is rather sophisticated and
> > complicated, and there are no free tools to convert it into a
> > simpler format such as SHP (there is one, MICRODEM, but it
> > refuses to work on my machine). I'd much prefer a less
> > sophisticated SHP format (i found numerous SHP resources, but
> > most of them are either incomplete, outdated or payware).
> > The alternative would be to sit down a few months and grok
> > VPF to write a VPF2SHP converter, extracting the data
> > relevant for me, but i wouldn't really want to do that ;) Anyone?
> > cheers,
> > claus.
> >
> > ps: i'm thinking about writing an open source worldmap
> > app/component for fp8.5/flex, just in case anyone would want
> > to join me
> >
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