[Foss4g2008loc] RE: irc / geodata

[graeme mcferren]

Hi Arnulf

I will have a bunch of WMS/WFS/WCS's set up on one of the fastest
network backbones in the country before the conference - more details to
follow as I set them up. Am keeping my head down on this very task at
the moment....

basic layers but also some application specific stuff around fires (big
datasets...)

Graeme

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:45 +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> I did not find any links to OGC WMS or WFS service capabilites with 
> local data on the Wiki page. Are there any, do you know of any? If not, 
> would anybody be interested in setting them up? I guess that many would 
> be highly interested in consuming them... :-)
> 
> At least a few aerial shots and a city map as backdrop to add a few POI 
> for the conference interactively would really be something that I would 
> sort of "expect" from a geospatial conference.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> graeme mcferren wrote:
> > 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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