[OSGeo-Edu] FW: [Worldwind-dev] FW: GLOBE.gov & World Wind

[Norman Vine]

Hi all

I do not know what the data format issues are but this looks like 
a good opportunity to forge an alliance with NASA GLOBE project and 
get some interesting data sets exposed ala Open Standards

I suggest contacting Patrick Hogan if anyone is interested in pursuing this.

Cheers

Norman 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hogan [mailto:Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:42 PM
> To: nhv at cape.com
> Subject: FW: [Worldwind-dev] FW: GLOBE.gov & World Wind
> 
> Norman,
> 
> Thanks. I sent your message on to Karen.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> 
>  Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
>  Project Manager
>  NASA World Wind
>  650.604.5656 (office)
>  650.269.2788 (cell)
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hogan [mailto:Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:11 PM
> To: 'Karen Milberger'
> Subject: FW: [Worldwind-dev] FW: GLOBE.gov & World Wind
> 
> Karen,
> 
> Not sure if this is any help (see below), but I will continue to see 
> if we can get more of the open source community to help GLOBE.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> 
>  Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
>  Project Manager
>  NASA World Wind
>  650.604.5656 (office)
>  650.269.2788 (cell)
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: worldwind-dev at worldwindcentral [mailto:
> worldwind-dev at worldwindcentral]
> On Behalf Of Norman Vine, nhv at cape.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:00 PM
> To: worldwind-dev at worldwindcentral.com
> Subject: RE: [Worldwind-dev] FW: GLOBE.gov & World Wind
> 
> Patrick
> 
> I suggest Globe contact OSGeo geodata group 
> http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
> 
> discussion list
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: worldwind-dev-bounces at worldwindcentral.com
> > [mailto:worldwind-dev-bounces at worldwindcentral.com] On Behalf Of 
> > Patrick Hogan
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:43 PM
> > To: worldwind-dev at worldwindcentral.com
> > Subject: [Worldwind-dev] FW: GLOBE.gov & World Wind
> > 
> > GLOBE could use some help, in case anyone might be interested. TI 
> > believe that this would be a small coding effort in order
> to deal with
> > the issue mentioned in Karen's email below, specifically:
> > 
> > "The source of model data has changed its location and
> format and we
> > have not had the resources available to convert our
> processes to use
> > what is now available."
> > 
> > There is already code to do this 'data format translation' 
> > for the 'same'
> > data before the format changed in February of 2005. I believe that 
> > 'data format translator' may just need some doctoring.
> > If someone is interested I wouldn't mind being the initial 
> > intermediary to establish that dialogue.
> > 
> > Then there is the separate, and possibly bigger, issue of the
> > "4 new projects" which is a whole other dialogue.
> > 
> > If anyone would like to help, please feel free to contact me. 
> > Or, if you already understand the issue and simply wish to propose 
> > solutions, you may want to contact Karen Milberger directly.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> >  Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
> >  Project Manager
> >  NASA World Wind
> >  650.604.5656 (office)
> >  650.269.2788 (cell)
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karen Milberger [mailto:milberger at globe.gov]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:19 AM
> > To: Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
> > Subject: Re: GLOBE.gov & World Wind
> > 
> > Patrick,
> > 
> > Unfortunately we have not been able to resolve the issue on
> ingesting
> > the data and converting it for our servers to render. Since 2005 we 
> > have also lost other data feeds like Cloud, rainfall
> amounts, and ship
> > data from sources that are no longer providing it. The
> source of model
> > data has changed its location and format and we have not had the 
> > resources available to convert our processes to use what is now 
> > available. At this time GLOBE is able to provide data that was 
> > collected specifically for GLOBE, some Synoptic Metar observations, 
> > and reference data from before 2005. We hope to provide access to 
> > feeds of reference data in future years, but don't have a
> time frame
> > of when this will be yet.
> > 
> > We have been directed by NASA to focus most of our resources on 
> > supporting 4 new projects 
> > (http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?essp-announce), and as a 
> > result will be working on providing portals to the data
> connected to
> > these projects first. We hope to reuse frameworks developed for 
> > accessing these projects' data for additional reference
> data sets to
> > make available to the GLOBE community in the future. It has been 
> > decided that GLOBE will not start ingesting new reference
> data sets,
> > but will use web portals to access data residing on the servers of 
> > these 4 projects, and other data providers. We are looking
> at Open GIS
> > standards, and ESRI standards, as ways of doing this, but
> are still in
> > the planning stages.
> > 
> > Thank you for your interest and support. If you have any
> suggestions,
> > please let me know.
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> > 
> > > Did GLOBE ever get caught up with their data. 
> > > As of February 2006 (maybe it was even 2005), there was no
> > more daily
> > > data for the different criteria for which there was about nine 
> > > previous years worth of daily data.
> > > This was a result of servers shifting around and the 'translator' 
> > > bringing that data up was broken, so there was no 'new' data.
> > > I am dearly hoping this was fixed.
> > > 
> > > I am looking forward to GLOBE's success!
> > > 
> > > -Patrick
> > > 
> > 
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