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Micha,<br>
Can you please CC my response to the spatialite list.<br>
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Micha and Spatialite users,<br>
Firstly, thank you for contributing spatialite to osgeolive.<br>
<br>
Re Datasets: We have run out of room on the OSGeo-Live DVD, so
anything we add requires us to take something else off.
Consequently, we strongly encourage all applications to make use of
the existing common datasets already installed on OSGeoLive. These
are explained here:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets</a><br>
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and marketing descriptions are here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/naturalearth_overview.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/naturalearth_overview.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/nc_dataset_overview.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/nc_dataset_overview.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/osm_dataset_overview.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/osm_dataset_overview.html</a><br>
<br>
In answer to some of the questions of "why?". It is a great
marketing tool. Docs are translated into 5 languages, and the next
release of OSGeo-Live DVD and associated lightening overview will be
presented/handed out at 10 international conferences in the
following 6 month period (before our next release).
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History</a><br>
<br>
With regards to who we are targeting: Our target audience are new
users - maybe techies with minimal GIS experience, or GIS people
with minimal tech experience, who want to quickly find out what is
available in the Open Source GIS space.<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 17/02/12 21:29, Micha Silver wrote:
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On Feb 17, 10:09 am, Jukka Rahkonen <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> > On Friday 17 February 2012 08:06:34 Micha wrote:> 0-
Before I re-invent the wheel, is there any other ready to use<br>
> > > spatialite DB with some "tasty" tables which can be
freely downloaded<br>
> > > for use on the LiveDVD?<br>
> <br>
> > You've asked this question before, and I think perhaps
you didn't get the<br>
> > answers you were looking for because the question is a
bit too vague. Why are<br>
> > you including sample data? That is, what is the sample
data meant to be used<br>
> > for? Demos? Training? Something else?<br>
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Yes, I guess I left a bit too much to readers imagination...<br>
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> <br>
> > There is data on the spatialite website, and I'm sure
there are other sources,<br>
> > or you could create your own (e.g. importing a
shapefile). It all depends on<br>
> > what you need the data for.<br>
> <br>
> LiveDVD is a fine way for Open source GIS projects for
advertising<br>
> about their existence and capacities. LiveDVD maintainer
cannot master<br>
> all the softwares so it is up to the projects to make the
package. If<br>
> we want that a newcomer would get interested in Spatialite
then it is<br>
> essential to have some valid and interesting demo data
included. I do<br>
> not know if, for example, those Spatialite 2.4 demo datasets
should be<br>
> updated to 3.0 for giving a better experience. Quantum GIS is
also<br>
> included in LiveDVD so it would be bad to include such
Spatialite demo<br>
> data that could not be opened with QGis. QGis users will be
able to<br>
> see also the spatial views from the database if they are
registered<br>
> correctly so such things might be good to have in the demo
data. They<br>
> do not increase the size of the database but they could make
it look<br>
> much more interesting. A single shapefile imported into
Spatialite<br>
> does not look so much different than the original one.<br>
> <br>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-<br>
> <br>
><br>
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Hi Brad:<br>
Jukka explained very well. Each of the projects on the LiveDVD
includes a "quickstart" document explaining the basic operations
of the application. For that each supplies some demo data. The
tables in the samples.tar.gz seem to be fine for this, but spread
among three DB's with duplication a bit of wasted disk space.
Those are the only issues I want to address.<br>
<br>
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> <br>
> > > 1- Are the data in the samples.tar.gz freely
redistibutable?<br>
> > > 2- Is there any limitation to reorganizing the
tables from those three<br>
> > > original sqlite files into one?<br>
> > > 3- Would the spatialite devs want to host this
single, consolidated<br>
> > > sqlite DB (~3MB zipped) along side the
samples.tar.gz<br>
> <br>
> > I don't have answeres to any of these questions, but
you should not expect an<br>
> > answer from Sandro for at least a few days.<br>
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OK, thanks<br>
<br>
> <br>
> > Brad <br>
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