[Openstreetmap] Downloading VMAP level 0 data for Germany

[Arnulf Christl]

Jeremy Stocks wrote:
> Hi there,
>  
> I would like to download this dataset for Germany.
>  
> I have managed to organise a Bittorrent client for the download but the 
> download is over 200mB. This is rather large for rmy home PC and may 
> cause me exceed my monthly DSL 1 Gb per month free data limit.
>  
> Tell me, is it anywhere possible to download this data purely by 
> country? I am specifically interested in Germany, ideally Bavaria.
>  
> Thax in advance,
>  
> Jeremy Stocks.
> 
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Hi,
you find some Free data for Germany on the homepage of the mapbender 
project (http://www.mapbender.org) in the download section (Files) on 
SourceForge. It ist the NIMA data as shapes or WKT ~23 MB postal codes 
as polygons or simple centroid.

Maybe have a look at this list (German lang):
mailto:opengeodb at phpbar.de
http://opengeodb.de/

They are into something similar to OpenStreetmap in Germany - but by far 
less deeply involved. i am currently trying to talk them into using OGC 
standards.

Moreover we have just today bought a really big machine (dual itanium 
loads of RAM) and have finally found a provider with (almost) flatrate 
so that we can start some wikimaps stuff in summer - hopefully.
You can contact me off list if you need more details on the situation of 
Free data in Germany. It is ugly... but there are quite a lot of "demo" 
services in the web that can be used perfectly (technically) as 
digitizing background...

Best,

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