[Talk-GB] UK administrative subdivisions

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 3 Dec 2007, at 12:02, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> It's quite possible that the polygons are good, but the list
>> incomplete (maybe they included only the ones they have good data
>> for?).  Are the polygons available for viewing somewhere?
>
> The whole world shapefile is available here:
>
> http://biogeo.berkeley.edu/gadm/data/gadm_v0-6_shp.zip
>
> I'ts quite big (a 250 MB download) and loading it into qgis or
> similar is possible but slow. I'll try to excerpt the relevant
> regions into a small shapefile and then get back to you.

If you load this shapefile into postgis (shp2pgsql - comes with  
postgis), you'll be able to use sql to extract interesting parts.
Also, ogr2ogr would translate e00 files.
HTH
Cheers
Artem

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> Frederik
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