http://download.geofabrik.de/ and http://download.cloudmade.com/ for the OSM data.
<http://download.cloudmade.com/>Note, the natural earth data, just select the polygons/countries you want and create a new file with that? On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:37 AM, emigrant <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:07 +0200, Micha Silver wrote: > > There are lots of places to look for freely available GIS data. One > > of > > the popular one's is Open Streetmap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ > > OSM data are not shapefiles, but QGIS can read them. > > > > Another source for small scale maps (size of a whole country or > > continent) is: > > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ > > Their layers *are* shapefiles. > > Thank you very much for the reply. > the first link seems does not have any option to download. the second > link offers large pack of data. Which I think consist maps of all the > countries. > Is there anyway I can get the shapefile of South Asia alone? > > Thank you very much. > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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