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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hey Folks,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I`ve been listening in for a while and been in on a couple of the IRC meetings. I am also helping the Ottawa OSGEO chapter get up and going.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As such we have merged two or three Open Source GIS groups in Ottawa. The one I was with was working with GRASS (</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">). We were working on Ottawa based datasets including converting much of the Atlas of Canada data to GRASS Location DB`s.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Since we have merged we are looking to OSGEO resources to help process, store and allow access to this data.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a telescience account set up and thought that the next stage would be to aproach the group and see what the options are.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I know there is a lot of talk about searching tools and metadata and such. This is great and I'm good to work on creating the right metadata. Right now I am looking for a place to store and process. A couple of GIGS would be good, some of our datasets are kinda large (even compressed) and often the raw data comes in large collections.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In addition, going back to some of the software requests from a few weeks ago the following would be a nice tool box. I don't know what is already installed on the telescience machine.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-FW tools</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-GRASS (QGIS optional)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-postgres/postgis</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-JUMP</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-OSSIM</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Right now the data we have:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Atlas Hydrology 161 MB</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Atlas Cencus 60.2 MB</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Atlas base 51.1 MB</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This data is currently housed here: </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/Members/drsampson/geodata/ogug-data/atlas-of-canada-in-grass-format/grass-format-of-the-atlas-of-canada/"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/Members/drsampson/geodata/ogug-data/atlas-of-canada-in-grass-format/grass-format-of-the-atlas-of-canada/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The problem is that the PLONE server relies on one person for admin and that is a large burden. Also for some reason PLONE is great for small files, but will crash on larger files. We need an alternative and I hope OSGEO resources will help</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So lets talk about how we can house data we all currently have. I'd like to try SVN with occasional snapshots myself…. I can also use an HTTP directory for direct DN or to link access.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT></SPAN>
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