CHEST is pleased to announce that it has signed an Agreement with Tele
Atlas for the provision of their MultiNet digital map data to Higher and
Further Education, CHEST Ireland, SURFdiensten, IATUL and Associated
Sites.
Although CHEST has for some time offered UK digital map data, it has
never, until now, been able to offer data from other countries. This
new Agreement is seen as an opportunity to make new data available that
will be of interest not only to Geographers, but to other sectors of
academia that are carrying out research using street level data in other
countries as well as the UK. The Universities Transport Study Group
members have shown a particular interest in this data.
Countries available include Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg, Denmark,
France and Monaco, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Portugal,
Spain & Andorra, Sweden, Switzerland & Liechtenstein, The Netherlands,
and USA.
The data includes:
* detailed road network coverage
* junctions and intersections
* restrictions eg one way streets, no entry, no right turn etc signposts
* Traffic Management Codes
* administrative areas
* tolls and ferry connections
* bridges and tunnels
* railways
* waterways
* thousands of Points of Interest eg hotels, petrol stations
* phonetic transcriptions – to allow speech recognition
* house number ranges
* post codes
Data format
* Vector database currently available in GDF and Shape format.
* Shape format is compatible with ESRI and MapInfo GIS products
Sites have the option in the first year of the Agreement to commit for a
period of 3 years or for the full 5 year term. Each database is
licensed separately, and discounts are offered to sites that pay the
fees as a one-off lump sum.
The fees include the provision of support and upgrades. It is
anticipated that new data will be added to the portfolio during the
lifetime of the Agreement.
For full details of the Agreement, maps showing the areas currently
available, and information on how to place an order, see our web site
at: http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/teleatlas
Regards
Judy
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Judy Adams
Senior Contracts Officer
Tel: 01225 474331
Fax: 01225 474301
Web: http://www.chest.ac.uk
CHEST
Queen Anne House
11 Charlotte Street
Bath BA2 1NE
CHEST is a service of EduServ
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