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  • From: Paul d'Aoust <paul@heliosville.com>
  • To: pcdb <pcdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcdb] Categorizing Setting Using Nested Hierarchical Taxonomies
  • Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:40:25 -0700

On Tue, 2007-03-04 at 19:46 -0700, Bear Kaufmann wrote:
> This appears to be the WWF ecosystem map, which is available as an
> ESRI shapefile (a format used in GIS). This can be processed by
> MapServer (open source) to produce dynamic maps. If we wanted to go
> that route, there are a number of other GIS vector and surface layers
> that would be helpful to present to designers.
>
> From here -> http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/g200eco.cfm :
> This data is available for use for valid scientific, conservation,
> and educational purposes as long as proper citations are used. We ask
> that you credit the Global 200 Ecoregions data as follows:

Wow, that is an exciting resource; thanks for that info. I wonder how
easy it is to use ESRI shapefiles with the Google Maps API (would save
us rolling our own map thingy).

Paul





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