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<td>Re: [Live-demo] What common datasets do we need?</td>
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<td>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:13:33 -0400</td>
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<td>Nathaniel Kelso <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nvkelso@gmail.com"><nvkelso@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td>Cameron Shorter <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"><cameron.shorter@gmail.com></a></td>
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<pre>I'll have a deeper read. The basic approach NE takes is to have scale
sets. I would suggest also some more local data than natural earth,
the problem is always "I don't know this place. It's not similar to
where I live." three other scales, 20k, 250k, and 1,000k are the next
logical steps. OSM at 20k. DCW at 1,000k, perhaps some US national
atlas at 1:250k.
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On May 26, 2011, at 20:05, Cameron Shorter <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"><cameron.shorter@gmail.com></a> wrote:
> Bob, Nathan, and others,
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> I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the suitability of Simon's datasets, described below, for use as a common OSGeo-Live dataset.
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> On 27/05/11 09:05, Simon Cropper wrote:
>> On 27/05/11 08:36, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> On 27/05/11 07:27, Bob Basques wrote:
>>>> Personally I believe there needs to be a set of data for various
>>>> levels of resolution as a global set, and I don't see the GE datasets
>>>> filling this need entirely (yet), Maybe the GeoMoose datasets can be
>>>> used in some of this capacity. The reason I thought of putting them
>>>> into their own containers (folders) was to provide a flexibility for
>>>> others to use if they so desired. They can also be easily removed in
>>>> the future. I'm also planning on building separate Viewers for each,
>>>> but I can also build a composite viewer. Each of these using a single
>>>> frontend jump page (index.html) to get to.
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>>> Bob,
>>> If the Natural Earth dataset doesn't provide data in the right format to
>>> highlight GeoMoose examples, then we should probably source another
>>> common dataset which can be used by multiple applications.
>>> I remember Simon Cropper had similar comments a while back when he was
>>> creating tutorials for gvsig.
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>>> So my question is, what dataset should we provide? (The data should be
>>> suitably licenced, either public domain as per Natural Earth, or another
>>> open licence like Creative Commons).
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>>>
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>> Hi Guys,
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>> 1. I am not part of the <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:live-demo@list.osgeo.org">live-demo@list.osgeo.org</a> group so not sure it will get to the list so you may wish to repost this response there.
>> 2. I have collated data suitable for use on the live-demo CD either to be distributed with it or referenced and downloaded on demand as the current dataset is done. All the datasets collated are CC-BY-SA and are at a resolution that most Natural Resource Managers in Australia use. Check out this description of what is available here....
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>> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gis.fossworkflowguides.com/#data">http://gis.fossworkflowguides.com/#data</a>
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>> 3. Cameron, from a users point of view I believe that most people trialling the software on the live-demo-CD want to play using information at a resolution they would typically encounter. In my experience this involves local to occasionally regional datasets. It is rare that people use continental or global datasets. Things like what I have provided and some of the USA sites with high resolution imagery and vector data are ideal.
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