[OSGeo-Discuss] Please help me add "The 10 most relevant links to geospatial data on the web"

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi all,
I'm writing you because we are in the final stages of a new version  
of GeoNetwork opensource version 2.1 (http://geonetwork- 
opensource.org) to be released early July.

I'm updating a list of links that is included by default in the  
application and I would like to make sure that page has a concise  
list of relevant websites that provide access to geospatial data or  
to important initiatives related initiatives.

I would like to see your contributions reflected, so please provide  
me with the best link(s) you know :-)

At OSGEO there's a list with useful links (http://wiki.osgeo.org/ 
index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project) of which I could use some too.

The current list is the following (not claiming to be the best at all  
and definitely biased towards GeoNetwork catalogs :-) !):
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GeoNetwork opensource related links
http://geonetwork-opensource.org	The GeoNetwork opensource Community  
website contains software, documentation, tutorials, excersises etc..
http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork	The GeoNetwork opensource Developer  
website
http://www.osgeo.org	The Open Source Geospatial Foundation

GeoNetwork catalogs
http://www.fao.org/geonetwork	GeoNetwork at the Food and Agriculture  
Organization of the United Nations
http://vam.wfp.org/vamsie	GeoNetwork at the The Vulnerability  
Analysis and Mapping (VAM) Unit from the World Food Program (WFP)
http://geonetwork.unocha.org/	GeoNetwork at the United Nations Office  
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
http://geonetwork.csi.cgiar.org/	GeoNetwork at the Consultative Group  
for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR)

Spatial Data Infrastructures
http://www.ungiwg.org/	United Nations Geospatial Information Working  
Group (UNGIWG)
http://www.gsdi.org/	Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)
http://www.earthobservations.org/	Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

Standards
http://www.opengeospatial.org/	Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
http://www.isotc211.org/	ISO - TC211 Geographic information/Geomatics
http://www.fgdc.gov/	US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC)

Mapping Initiatives
http://www.iscgm.org/">International Steering Committee for Global  
Mapping

Other related sites
http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/adds/	African Data Dissemination Service
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/	NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, NGDC
http://www.nga.mil/	US National Geospatial-intelligence Agency (NGA)
http://www.eoportal.org/	Earth Observation Portal (ESA)
http://www.esri.com/data/	ESRI ArcData Online
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Thanks in advance for contributions. I'll include a maximum of 10 new  
links to keep the list manageable :-)

Ciao,
Jeroen