new to postgris and GIS information systems and looking for info

[Ries van Twisk]

Hey list,

I'm totally new to GIS system.
The reason I have been subscribing to this list because I work with
postgresql a lot and I heard about the GIS capabilities.

What I want to do...
I have a DB with a lot of coordinates (long/lat) of city's and places
from all over the world....

For our traveling site we want to display a map in the webbrowser of the
place of the city.
What I'm looking for is province area information so I can draw lines of
countrys and provinces
and place a big colorfull dot of the city where the user was looking for.

It would be perfect if there are any highmaps available so I place that
on my map as well and make the
whole thing more attractive for the webuser.

Does anybody know where to find such hight maps... or any other kinds of
maps to make it more colorfull
and where I can find information about country and province information
to draw maps...

again, not sure if this is the right place to ask... As always... we are
in low budget so free maps or cheap maps
would be ok.. We don't need any really hight details (see streets etc.....)


thanks in advance,
Ries van twisk

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Ries,

Post by Ries van Twisk
What I want to do...
I have a DB with a lot of coordinates (long/lat) of city's and places
from all over the world....

PostGIS should serve fine as backend providing those data to a rendering
frontend (e. G. mapserver).

Post by Ries van Twisk
What I'm looking for is province area information so I can draw lines of
countrys and provinces and place a big colorfull dot of the city where the user was looking for.

For the US, the Tiger data is a free, medium quality source of such
information.

For europe, our company has licensed the data from NavTeq, but expect to
pay some money for them.

HTH,
markus

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[Ries van Twisk]

Post by Markus Schaber
Hi, Ries,

Post by Ries van Twisk
What I want to do...
I have a DB with a lot of coordinates (long/lat) of city's and places
from all over the world....

PostGIS should serve fine as backend providing those data to a rendering
frontend (e. G. mapserver).

Cool.. I thought so already... :)

Post by Markus Schaber

Post by Ries van Twisk
What I'm looking for is province area information so I can draw lines of
countrys and provinces and place a big colorfull dot of the city where the user was looking for.

For the US, the Tiger data is a free, medium quality source of such
information.

Medium quality (for whatever that is...) is I think fine with us... W
just wan't to show something nice to the user
so it has a idea of where a city is. No streets, realroads etc... are
needed..

Post by Markus Schaber
For europe, our company has licensed the data from NavTeq, but expect to
pay some money for them.

I'll check it out... thanks...

Post by Markus Schaber
HTH,
markus
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[Robin Chauhan]

I just googled for 'free gis data'. Try here:

http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/

Depending on what country you want, you might find something there.

Good luck,
-Robin Chauhan

Post by Ries van Twisk
What I want to do...
I have a DB with a lot of coordinates (long/lat) of city's and places
from all over the world....

[Benedetto Porfidia]

Post by Robin Chauhan
http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/
Depending on what country you want, you might find something there.
Good luck,
-Robin Chauhan

Post by Ries van Twisk
What I want to do...
I have a DB with a lot of coordinates (long/lat) of city's and places
from all over the world....

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