[Talk-GB] UK administrative subdivisions

[Richard Fairhurst]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> It is hard to find out who exactly prepared the list. I downloaded a
> huge shapefile with administrative subdivisions for many countries
> from the GADM project, and they say their EU data comes from UNEP/
> GRID. The UNEP/GRID web site (http://www.grid.unep.ch/) has a
> download in Arc/Info file format (.e00) but I wasn't able to process
> that usefully.

http://search.cpan.org/~zummo/Geo-E00-0.05/lib/Geo/E00.pm

I've "hand-parsed" E00s in the past - there's a document describing  
the file format somewhere on the web - so let me know if there's  
anything I can do to help.

cheers
Richard