[OSGeo-Discuss] Data for the Integration Showcase

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitchell at osgeo.org
Thu Aug 23 10:02:06 PDT 2007


Isn't part of the idea that the db can be hit live during the event -  
or was that a pipe dream?

Tyler

On 23-Aug-07, at 9:55 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:

> The link provided by Jody is more for people who can access the data
> directly from the postgis database.
>
> If you are looking to get at the original data you will have to  
> contact
> the provider of the dataset: myself, Dave Patton, or Jason Birch.
>
> -Justin
>
> Bob Basques wrote:
>> Jody,
>>
>> Not a big deal for me, just thinking about others that might try it.
>>
>> I started through the first entry in Dave Pattons's list and still
>> haven't figured out where the download spot is,  I'm doing this  
>> between
>> other things though, so I'm easily distracted.
>>
>> I'll do more of a random attempt at looking for the data sources  
>> next.
>>
>> bobb
>>
>>
>>
>> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>> Bob Basques wrote:
>>>> Jody,
>>>>
>>>> Ok, I must be dense, I don't see a link to any data anywhere on  
>>>> this
>>>> page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/ 
>>>> FOSS4G2007_IntegrationShowcase
>>>> A lot of reference and catalog description links though.
>>>>
>>>> Is this it?  :http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canadian_Geodata, not
>>>> exactly obvious from the previous page if you ask me.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, this is a neat idea, but shouldn't there be one spot with a  
>>>> copy
>>>> of the data someplace, even just a subset of smaller datasets would
>>>> start folks going.   It would make it much easier to get started on
>>>> participation.
>>> I only was aware of the data loaded into the PostGIS database there;
>>> you can access the database to rip it out onto your machine. But it
>>> sounds like the data is available separately at the link Dave Patton
>>> described:
>>> - http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canadian_Geodata
>>>
>>> We should edit the wiki to make this more obvious,
>>> Jody
>>>
>>>
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