[Xastir] OpenStreetMap Shapefiles available.

[David]

Hi Carl.....thanks for the heads up on these files.....

where can one obtail the dbfawk for the Aus-Oc shp file

73 David VK4BDJ


Carl Makin wrote:
> Evening All,
> I haven't seen this mentioned around.  A company in Germany called 
> GEOFABRIK are processing the OSM data nightly into shapefiles and 
> making them freely available at;
>
> http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
>
> I've grabbed the Australia-oceania set which is about 70MB zipped.  
> I've got it running with an instance of Xastir on FreeBSD and a dbfawk 
> file custom built for it and it's quite good.
>
> Worth a look, especially for those of us outside of North America 
> which is all most of the online maps cover.
>
> Carl.
> (vk1kcm)
>
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