[Geodata] Natural Earth mirror/distribution

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> Hi All-
>
>  At the just-over Where 2.0 OSGeo booth, Mr. Nathan Vaughn Kelso stopped by
> from the Washington Post. He and others are behind the cartographically
> lovely Natural Earth data set. The Natural Earth team I think they are
> pretty happy with the results, and have received critical acclaim...
>
>  http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
>
>  So Mr. Kelso inquired if and how we, OSGeo would like to host or promote
> the set... Apparently a minimal set of all vector, plus two basic raster, is
> around 670 mb.  (the whole set of rasters brings it up to 4-6 GB ?)
>
>  seems like a great fit to me... Ideas ?
>
>  best regards
>   -Brian

The GRASS project is mirrored at ibiblio,org. We just got this offer from
them which may be interesting here (fwd with permission):


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:55 PM, John Reuning <john at ibiblio.org> wrote:
...
> I also wanted to open a dialog about using BitTorrent for
> distribution.  ibiblio has a torrent site that we use for other
> projects.  http://torrent.ibiblio.org/  One of our goals for the next
> several months is to add more projects.  The grass software and gis
> sample data sets look like great candidates.  We have search/browse as
> well as seeding software designed for server use.  The torrents should
> never go stale as long as you intend to distribute the content.
>
> If you're interested, we'll make the files available and provide you
> links for your web pages.  In future updates to the web site, we plan
> to add self-service tools for you to take control over your content.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -John R.


cheers
Markus

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