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Fast data representation on the vector layers

I have found an interesting article about how HTML5 supports representation on large datasets. Article can be found here. In the article it is said that HTML5 and feature simplification can ...
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Where can I find European City boundary data?

Does anyone know any sources for free European city boundary data? Thanks!
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Is there anywhere that I can obtain global UV data in either raster or vector format?

I'm looking for some UV data (currently with no spatial or temporal resolutions in mind, but ideally split into UV-A and UV-B) for the whole earth. Can anyone recommend a source for data like this or ...
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Power line and/or power station vector (shapefile) data in Turkey

Looking for transmission power line / power station vector (shapefile) data in the country of Turkey. KML/KMZ files would also work. Found great vector data here yesterday for roads, rivers, etc: ...
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How can we protect GIS data?

I have found a very interesting paper here related to this topic. I just want to have views/ideas from other professional about how we can protect GIS data using Cryptography or Digital Watermarking? ...
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Where can I find a Unesco World Heritage List as boundaries?

I was wondering if anyone knows where to find the UNESCO world heritage list with boundaries? I can extract point data from the json feed for the map on the website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list via ...
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Looking for an annotated vectorial map of the world

I'm looking for an annotated vectorial (PS/SVG/...) map of the world (+countries). Wikipedia contains many vectorial maps (e.g: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Blank_SVG_maps_of_the_world ...
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Creating a sidewalk map for a walkability survey

If I wanted to do my own walkability survey of my city, what tools could I use? I have map data from OpenStreetMap, but I have to consider that streets have two sides (which aren't always accessible ...
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Any freely available vector data in cylindrical projection?

I'm trying to develop an application in PHP to plot various points in Europe from a database, and serve them dynamically on a map. I think this should be relatively straightforward when using a map ...