[Foss4g2008loc] RE: irc / geodata

[graeme mcferren]

I will be the logical person to get the data to, Dup - I will be able to
load it onto the workshop machines image.

Graeme McFerren
Room B151
CSIR Site - Building 43
Meiring Naude Road
Brummeria
Pretoria
South Africa

Postal Address:
Meraka Institute
PO Box 395
Pretoria 0001
South Africa


Thanks
Graeme

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:30 +0200, Heindrich Du Plessis wrote:
> Josh
> Sue will be in contact with you.
>  
> Regards
> Dup
> 
> >>> Josh Livni <josh at umbrellaconsulting.com> 9/3/2008 9:13 PM >>>
> 
> I note the wiki page says the National link has 'lots of free gis
> data' 
> but I couldn't find any while tooling around in there (could have
> been 
> missing something obvious). 
> 
> More to the point, it sounds like (thanks Dup!) we now have a great 
> hookup for any data we need.  I will modify the wiki page as soon as
> I 
> can figure out my password for data I think would be good to request, 
> but I am not really familiar with what kinds of data is available, or 
> what might be more pertinent/interesting locally (wine regions?).  So
> it 
> would be good to hear from those who do know more of the local area 
> before we formally request it from  Sue Kirschner.
> 
> Finally - is someone local willing to volunteer to accept delivery of 
> the data in DVD, and upload it somewhere?   If we can't get a
> password 
> protected osgeo-hosted repository quickly, then I am happy to host on
> an 
> S3 instance if someone will upload the data to a server (which I can 
> also provide for this purpose).
> 
>   -Josh
> 
> Gavin Fleming wrote:
> >
> > Josh beat me to it and Dup has already responded, but this should 
> > still be useful:
> >
> > Josh Livni wrote:
> >
> > >Is there an irc channel you guys (who are working on the LOC) are 
> > hanging out to deal with discussion re FOSS4G?
> >
> > Yes, though not heavily used as many employers block irc: 
> > irc://freenode.net/foss4g2008
> >
> > >Is there a publicly available site where we can download South 
> > African / Cape Town based geodata?
> >
> > Please check out and edit this page: 
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/South_African_Geodata
> >
> > Gavin
> >
> >
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