Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
Just, so people know, [[Bruce Perens]] has a complete street map of the United States on his ftp server (ftp://ftp.perens.com/pub/US-map/tiger2k), which is also available from the US Census site here (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2k/). AFAIR, it's not covered by copyright, having been created by the US Government, though I can look for the original announcement if required. So, no help for Europe, but could be useful for someone else.
Another offbeat possibility is FlightGear, who compose a bunch of PD map data layers into flight sim terrain. An overhead view with shading would make nice physical maps. All the raw map data one could want is in the public domain, the hard work is to assemble it into useful displays.
Stan