<div dir="ltr">Hi Karsten,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM, karsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karsten@terragis.net" target="_blank">karsten@terragis.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018">Dear
All,</span></font></div>
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<div><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018"><font size="2" face="Arial">I just had a
colleague ask me about open data repositories for GIS files. Despite knowing the
usual suspects such as OSM, GeoWiki, Natural earth data , </font>
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<div class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097vote"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Global administrative areas<span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018"> and so on I am not aware that there would be a more
general option to store general research GIS data e.g. for scientific purposes
such as agricultural research results ...</span></font></font></div>
<div class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097vote"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018"></span></font></font> </div>
<div class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097vote"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018">The
original request from my colleague is: </span></font></font><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018"><i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018">"<span>Regarding
open GIS data, where are the most stable/accessible/well known depositories of
open access data that researchers can add their data to? We are thinking
of the possibilities for archiving data layers so that they can be used by
anyone, but ( ideally) without us having to take responsibility for running the
servers etc. As an example for non-spatial data we use
Dataverse.</span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018">"</span></font></i></span></div>
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<div class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097vote"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018"></span></font> </div>
<div class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097vote"><span class="m_-8537832106888044660gmail-m_-8863581069500479097755530313-28032018"><font size="2" face="Arial">Would
anyone be aware of such a repository ?</font></span></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have a look at WorldMap.<br></div></div><br><a href="https://about.worldmap.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">https://about.worldmap.<wbr>harvard.edu/</a><br><br>It shows the map online, you can download it, and the website says that they are working on an integration with Datavese. It is also fully open source.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Vaclav<br></div></div></div>