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Mikel Maron contacted me recently about adding more precise location data to cafe entries on coffee.gen.nz.
I replied that I would love to... if I had a) a way to find the precise location of each cafe, and b) a way to present it.
Mikel pointed me to the New Zealand Open GPS Maps Project, which seems to have a lot of data. It's GPL-licensed. I think the license covers the work Graeme Williams has done to combine a bunch of free datasets and put them in Garmin format though, rather than the original datasets, which I might be able to use.
But then - hey - what's this? multimap.com seems to have a pretty decent view of New Zealand! Here's Cathedral Square, the centre of Christchurch, for example. I guess this is what I want :)
Update on Graeme's sources: Graeme's data originally came from the New Zealand Topographic Database. This costs $1500 for 12 gigabytes of maps - ouch! However, Olliver and Company distributes it for $800, or $200 for the 2001 data. Graeme is using the 2001 data, which also has a much less restrictive copyright.
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