[OSGeo-Edu] Educational/training data set proposal

[Puneet Kishor]

This may be a dumb question, but have you considered making a GRASS
teaching/example dataset out of the Itasca data that has been
traditionally used to demo MapServer?

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Helena Mitasova and me have drafted a Wiki page for a new
> Educational/training data set
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina
> 
> Helena selected an area in North Carolina where plenty of data are
> available under reasonable licenses or in public domain.
> 
> So far it is an ideas collection. We want to create this new data set
> similar to the GRASS Spearfish SD data set which is used a lot for teaching
> but is somewhat limited (and old meanwhile).
> 
> Please let us know your thoughts. We'll continue to work on the page
> of course and one day start downloading/packaging.
> 
> Best regards
> Markus