[R-sig-Geo] Very basic figure question

Albin Blaschka albin.blaschka at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 17:03:34 CEST 2009


 >  UK boundary data in the public domain? Ooh, I nearly laughed myself
 > off my chair! Are you american? No, UK border data is copyright,
 > controlled, restricted and if you want it you probably end up with an
 > MI5 file. Academics can get access to various boundary data sets via
 > ukborders. but we academics already have MI5 files as dangerous
 > intellectual subversives anyway:
 >
 > http://edina.ac.uk/ukborders/
 >


Hello!

Very basic borders can be found here...
GADM database of Global Administrative Areas - http://www.gadm.org/

Maybe data found here: http://www.geonames.org could also be helpfull

kind regards,
Albin

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
| Albin Blaschka, Mag. rer.nat - Salzburg, Austria
| http://www.albinblaschka.info   http://www.thinkanimal.info
| It's hard to live in the mountains, hard, but not hopeless!



More information about the R-sig-Geo mailing list