vector data from google maps?

killingpeople

shot in the dark here,

but, i was wondering how one might go about exporting vector data from google maps? they use vectors, right? would that even be legal? or, maybe there is a resource that offered vector map data. i'd like zip codes boarders, state boards, roads, and stuff.

Tumerboy

are you trying to map out exactly where the ankle bracelet will let you go?

Racer445

Apparently google is letting people download the vector data, but right now they're only letting people download the data for kenya.

renderhjs

you might have better luck with open Street map
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
the open source (GNU) map project

frubes

There are ways and means of obtaining/creating it which are quite labourious. Alternatively, depending on what sort of scale you are looking for you could look at Digital Elevation Models (DEM's)

The USGS gives free data for the majority of the US but not the rest of the world. You can also buy DEM's from some sites. The alternative is getting hold of a good topological map and using programs to extract the vectors but that kind of sucks.

All that blurb was on the assumption you wanted to create digital models so ignore me if its not :P