From: Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Cc: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: mp-geo Metapost package with ConTeXt
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:53:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C90697C-D852-497B-9FB3-F2FE5F808A82@scorecrow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d29ba1b-858d-107f-6d21-a74f65ec19cb@xs4all.nl>
> On 16 Jul 2021, at 20:55, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> On 7/15/2021 10:30 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>> On 15 Jul 2021, at 18:58, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was wondering about that too. I admit that I looked into maps years ago but never could find quality data files.
>> Does this help?
>> <https://www.naturalearthdata.com>
> i was halfway writing as reader for that fiel format when i noticed that is is also quite low res so i gave up on that and started playing (extending) with an more interesting alternative that mojca and i wrote years ago at a meeting
Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any higher resolution sources of global data - what scale were you thinking of?
For the UK there are free maps down to street level, either as a single file or API. The API details are here:
<https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/products/maps-api>
The license allows free use for apps made available to the public.
—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-14 14:43 Gavin
2021-07-15 15:48 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-15 16:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-07-15 17:58 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-15 20:30 ` Bruce Horrocks
2021-07-16 19:55 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-17 9:53 ` Bruce Horrocks [this message]
2021-07-17 10:20 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-07-17 10:45 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-17 11:05 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-10-22 9:31 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-10-22 13:35 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-10-22 14:16 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-10-22 14:27 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-07-17 10:53 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-07-17 10:53 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-17 12:42 ` Arthur Rosendahl
2021-07-17 18:50 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-18 17:36 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-07-16 16:20 ` Gavin
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2021-07-16 19:51 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-16 20:08 ` Alan Braslau
2021-07-26 21:29 ` Gavin via ntg-context
2021-07-26 23:01 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-07-27 6:12 ` Gavin via ntg-context
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