User talk:Shak

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Hi Shak! Yes, I used data from several sources, and it was all public domain. Some of it ships with ArcGIS 9.2. The software itself is the priciest part, but if you are a student you can almost certainly use the program in your school's GIS lab (usually they have one somewhere). I'm not sure where you are, but if you are interested in U.S. data you can go to places like the usgs.gov web site for their GIS data (I used the hillshade from them); the GIS download sites from different states for their data (I used California state data, such as the oilfields, from DOGGR); the US Census TIGER data for streets, highways, urban areas, water boundaries, things like that. There's a lot of free, public domain data online, but sometimes it takes some digging to find what you need. Also check out GIS Data Depot where you can get free data. When I make maps for Wikipedia I'm careful to use only public domain stuff. Have fun! Antandrus (talk) 20:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)