[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gvsig_english] New site demonstrating the use of Free & Open Source Software

[Hamish]

Jody wrote:
> > the natural earth dataset in order to be above board.
Simon wrote:
> This is good but very few people actually do work at
> that scale. I hope that now we have some data at a finer
> resolution we will see some other tutorials demonstrating
> techniques typically done on a day to day basis.

you're in luck, for some years the North Carolina dataset has
been collected and made available by and for OSGeo projects
exactly for this purpose. I believe the main contact/coordination
for that is Helena and Markus via the geodata at lists.osgeo mailing
list. GRASS already uses the grass-ified version in its tutorials
and ships+uses that on the OSGeo Live DVD, see
  http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php

Creative Commons licensed.

* List of map layers:
 http://www.grassbook.org/grasslocations/nc_spm_08_contents.html

* Vector maps in SHAPE format (56MB)
 http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_shape.tar.gz

* Raster maps in GeoTIFF format (48MB)
 http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_rast_geotiff.tar.gz

* Raster maps in ArcGrid format (47MB)
 http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_rast_arcgrid.tar.gz

* Sample vector maps in KML format (2MB)
 http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_kml.tar.gz

... and more ...

* Original data sources in their native format:
  http://www.grassbook.org/ncexternal/index.html


We're running out of things to chuck overboard & space is tight,
but I'm confident we can find 106mb on the live dvd for that.


regards,
Hamish