Now, my other issue is I live in one of the other two states :-P
And I will be in the other next week. OK should is be the 50 State Group Project.
The current run of the what I am calling ver 1.0 is a one size fit all. The need to mach the contours and other local date to the map is the key to do good maps. I think contours need to be mach at less then the state level. 5 foot contours are good for most of Florida but 5 foot contours are to big for south Florida and the Keys.
Sites with data for Florida
http://www.fgdl.org/ over 350 current and historic GIS layers
http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis/data/index.htm * Geodetic Control
* Cadastral (property boundaries and ownership)
* Orthoimagery
* Elevation Elevation Contours and Depressions and Bathymetry
* Hydrography (rivers, streams, lakes, etc.)
* Administrative units (boundaries of cities, counties, and special purpose districts)
* Transportation (features such as roads, bridges, railroads, ports, and airports)
dhisum_dhisum
For just getting ver 1.0 of the map done the database is not needed. I would zipup all files needed to run the maps. Yes I have scripts that pull the data out of the database and then run cgpsmapper. So I setup the scripts that pull the data and then zip it up ready to up load. The person would need to downeloade, unzip and start a bat file to run the maps. And you will need to buy the shareware version of cgpsmapper (30$). If there was a shapefile to MP converter the free version of cgpsmapper would do.
savage
I think a 16 computer Linux cluster in the back room would be good.