Re: [OSS] Re: Meeting Note: Japan Viet Nam Geoinformatics Consortium(JVGC)

At 01:19 24.02.2003 +0000, you wrote:
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>For some of the things GIS can do, general outline maps that resolve district
>or even commune boundaries are sufficient.

Why?
I might want for example to develop an application to track vehicles with
the help of GPS and GSM. For that I don't need district or commune
boundaries, but reasonably good street maps. Country wide or city wide.

Or is this not GIS?

>I don't think there are real problems with that. These data seem are
>available though you (and I) have in the past had trouble getting them
>gratis. I have what appears to be an up-to-date map to district level in
>an application supplied to one of our projects.

I have also a source for that. But everything is in TCVN/ABC :(
I did not try yet, whether it can handle Unicode ...

Stefan

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