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Contents 1 In the UK 2 Germany 3 France 4 Sweden 5 Somewhere in space

In the UK

• Free Map - Nick Whitlegg's countryside mapping
• Free The Postcode - brute force GPS powered postcode data entry site (see also Free The Postcode page)
• LondonFreeMap (Dead project)
• Wireless London, including a map of wireless access points
• geowiki (dormant at present)
• freeworldgazetteer (Dead? Site appears completely vandalised Nov 2006)
• MapServer demo from the Nov 2004 London Dorkbot meeting (Dead? Nov 2006)

Germany

• http://www.gpspunkte.de
• http://www.opengeodb.de
• http://www.maps4free.de/
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-AC1
• http://bbbike.sourceforge.net/ - free streetmap data about almost all of berlin, could be probably used for osm (different/incompatible (?) licences: BBBike is under GPL while OSM is under CC)
• Frida: Freie Vektor-Geodaten Osnabrück see dedicated Frida import page
• http://eworld.sourceforge.net/ - eWorld uses OSM data for traffic simulations

France

• http://www.upct.org/ - Un Point C'est Tout - apparently founded in March 2004

Sweden

There are lots of nice reports about maps in sweden, about historical maps and all that.

• Stockholm GIS info site with some free (as in speech) data about Stockholm. E.g. Dangerous goods roads, nature reserves, built up areas. Everything in ziped shapefiles.
• statistics about places in stockholm To add the most important places on the map, they are all in excel.
• Vägverket has a DB called NVDB, there is a swedish document describing this:search for "NVDB ­ SPECIFIKATION AV INNEHÅLL VÄGNÄT",

Somewhere in space

You can see a collection of interesting databases on the Potential Datasources page.

• OneMap
• Satellite images from ResMap,they provide free online access to GIS-ready satellite data.
• Wikipedia has seen several proposals, most of which are linked from m:Wikimaps
• GPSvisualizer plots individual tracks in color on existing background maps, http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/
• Create individual map interfaces with any WMS you find in the world with the Mapbender project
• http://mapgeneration.berlios.de/tiki/tiki-index.php "The idea of the MapGeneration Project is to collect GPS data from all over the world and automatically create a digital road map, that is freely available for everybody."
• http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Mapmaking_Expedition -- Wikitravel has need of "travel guide"-style maps -- icons for important sites, leaving out some streets and features that aren't important to travellers.
• http://www.planiglobe.com/ -- Free (CC-by-2.5) graphical maps
• http://mapalong.com/ - forthcoming 'social mapping' project. Some notes found here.
• World Wind - an open source 3d world viewer developed by NASA. Majority of datasets displayed by it has some of the "lighter" licenses, e.g. public domain.