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<div>GADM's ultimate origins are also one of the great mysteries of the GIS world. GADM's maintainer is notoriously un-responsive to requests so I wouldn't hold your breath about getting open data licensed information that way.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Paul Norman <<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com">penorman@mac.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:26 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Nadeem Sardar <<a href="mailto:nadeem_qln@yahoo.com">nadeem_qln@yahoo.com</a>>, Severin MENARD <<a href="mailto:severin.menard@gmail.com">severin.menard@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>"
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [HOT] Admin level 2 for CAR and Malawi<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">GADM is under a non-commercial license and thus not open data, or compatible with OpenStreetMap.<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-07-03 9:34 PM, Nadeem Sardar wrote:<br>
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<div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">here you can look at following sources.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gadm.org/" class="" style="">Global Administrative Areas | Boundaries without limits</a><br class="" style="">
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<div class="" style="width: 168px;" align="center"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gadm.org/" class="" style="text-decoration: none !important;
color: #000000 !important;"><img moz-do-not-send="true" alt="image" src="http://www.gadm.org/../img/gadm2_low.png" class="" style="display: block; margin: auto;" height="87" width="168"></a></div>
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<span class="" style=""></span><span class="" style=""></span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gadm.org/" class="" style="text-decoration: none !important; color:
#000000 !important; line-height: 100%;
font-size: 18px; display: block;"><span class="" style="margin: 0; font-weight:
normal;margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 18px;
line-height: 21px; max-height: 43px; color:
#000000; overflow: hidden !important; display:
inline-block;">Global
Administrative Areas | Boundaries without limits</span></a>
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color: #999999; max-height: 81px; font-family:
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GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software.
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<div class="" style="font-size: 0pt;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gadm.org/" class="" style="color: black; text-decoration:
none !important;cursor:pointer !important;" target="_blank"><span class="" style="display:
inline-block; line-height: 11px; max-width:
145px; min-width: 85px; overflow: hidden;
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#999999; -moz-text-size-adjust: none;
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text-size-adjust:none;">View
on <span style="font-weight: bold" class="">www.gadm.org</span></span></span></a></div>
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by Yahoo</span></div>
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<div class="" style=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://geocommons.com/" class="" style="">GeoCommons</a> </div>
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