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just yesterday I was searching for publicly available administrative geodata of European countries. it's not an easy task due to language barriers and fragmenta

just yesterday I was searching for publicly available administrative geodata of European countries. it's not an easy task due to language barriers and fragmentation. Does anyone know where to download the source data of this project?

fetbaffe 12y ago
Download here http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/ http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/ Instructions here http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgst.dk%2Femner%2Ffrie-data%2Fminecraft%2Fdownload-data%2F&edit-text=&act=url http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev=... Edit: You need a user to be able to download from Kortforsyningen. Not sure what the user agreements says about foreigners because the sign up form is in danish and the options are like if you are a danish city, citizen, ngo etc. What I can see you only need to supply user name and email address. What surprises me is that I can't find any pages in English. So good luck navigating if you don't understand danish.
- 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
  > What surprises me is that I can't find any pages in English. So good luck navigating if you don't understand danish. The American expat community hasn't grown large enough to form an effective separatist group and demand that the Danish government translate everything into English? How awful. /s
  - fetbaffe 12y ago
    Here is the Swedish equivalent. Seven languages supported. https://www.lantmateriet.se/ https://www.lantmateriet.se/
  - _delirium 12y ago
    The Danish government does translate a pretty large amount of stuff to English, not specifically for Americans but because it's the lingua franca used to interact with anyone non-Danish, even fairly nearby people like Finns and Germans (Finns are officially supposed to know some Swedish, which is similar to Danish, but in practice English is used even for intra-Nordic communication). Not everything is translated, but it's sort of trending in that direction. I would guess most "scientific" type stuff, like this data, will eventually join that group. On the other hand Google Translate tends to work pretty well with Danish anyway, because sentences are fairly short without complicated German-style clause structures that confuse the translator, and the grammar is not too different from English.
JonnieCache 12y ago
The GADM database of Global Administrative Areas has boundaries for every country, in a variety of formats. They're normalized into 4 "layers" IIRC. You can push them straight into postgis or whatever. http://www.gadm.org/ http://www.gadm.org/ (Oops, I just realised you're looking for full maps with elevation at each point, and this is just a bunch of polygons. Still a very useful resource.)

fetbaffe 12y ago

Download here http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/ http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/ Instructions here http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgst.dk%2Femner%2Ffrie-data%2Fminecraft%2Fdownload-data%2F&edit-text=&act=url http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev=... Edit: You need a user to be able to download from Kortforsyningen. Not sure what the user agreements says about foreigners because the sign up form is in danish and the options are like if you are a danish city, citizen, ngo etc. What I can see you only need to supply user name and email address. What surprises me is that I can't find any pages in English. So good luck navigating if you don't understand danish.

6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> What surprises me is that I can't find any pages in English. So good luck navigating if you don't understand danish. The American expat community hasn't grown large enough to form an effective separatist group and demand that the Danish government translate everything into English? How awful. /s
- fetbaffe 12y ago
  Here is the Swedish equivalent. Seven languages supported. https://www.lantmateriet.se/ https://www.lantmateriet.se/
- _delirium 12y ago
  The Danish government does translate a pretty large amount of stuff to English, not specifically for Americans but because it's the lingua franca used to interact with anyone non-Danish, even fairly nearby people like Finns and Germans (Finns are officially supposed to know some Swedish, which is similar to Danish, but in practice English is used even for intra-Nordic communication). Not everything is translated, but it's sort of trending in that direction. I would guess most "scientific" type stuff, like this data, will eventually join that group. On the other hand Google Translate tends to work pretty well with Danish anyway, because sentences are fairly short without complicated German-style clause structures that confuse the translator, and the grammar is not too different from English.

JonnieCache 12y ago

The GADM database of Global Administrative Areas has boundaries for every country, in a variety of formats. They're normalized into 4 "layers" IIRC. You can push them straight into postgis or whatever. http://www.gadm.org/ http://www.gadm.org/ (Oops, I just realised you're looking for full maps with elevation at each point, and this is just a bunch of polygons. Still a very useful resource.)