[Geodata] geotorrents?

[John Graham]

Hi

I added another TB of storage to the blade server so you can put it on 
geodata.telascience.org  in /geodata

John

Jo Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:03:12PM -0500, Chris Holmes wrote:
>   
>>> Also remember 'no data without metadata'. It's incumbent upon me to
>>> provide you with a quick and clean way of annotating what is in your
>>> package. I wonder what it contains already. ,)
>>>       
>> I have a 'geoserver data directory' that links to the TIGER/VMAP0/GNIS 
>> metadata.  Tiger in particular is not all that helpful, since it says 
>> nothing about particular layers.  So I include a bit more in the W*S 
>> 'abstract' section of each layer, about what it contains and what 
>> generalization we did, ect.
>>     
>
> okay that sounds ideal, in the Capabilities looks like the best place
> for all that stuff. Your contact details as packager would be in there
> as well. 
>
> Hey, you know that ISO19115:2003 doesn't require that you provide any kind
> of contact details from a data provider, but does mandate that you
> specify their organisational role as one item from a code list?
>  
>   
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?component=Geodata
>>>       
>> I can create a ticket, but I'm not sure what for?  Just to have someone 
>> make a place for me to upload this to?
>>     
>
> i made one just to annotate this. perhaps putting 'oh yes must do
> that' thoughts into trac would be a way to help mutual promisekeeping. 
> i like the "if it's not in the tracker, you shouldn't be working on it"
> stance found in some software projects. 
>
>   
>> That'd be great.  I'm happy to share the load on TOPP servers, I've got 
>> 2-3 boxes I can put it on.  And I may know a few others who might offer 
>> resources as long as we're sharing.  I just don't want to be hit with 
>> the whole load, and I hope that this way as it gets out there more peers 
>> will share the load as well.
>>     
>
> Okay super, already a distributed data repository with a peer network. 
>
>   
>> Oh yeah, I've also got 2004 .6 meter orthos for all of NYC.  About 5 
>> gigs of tiffs.  I can throw them up on a geotorrent as well.  And don't 
>> we also have the boston orthos?
>>     
>
> There's a LOT of MassGIS data. They already run a geoserver 'cluster'?
>  
>   
>> Next step for me after that is to set up a WMS and TileCache.
>>     
>
> It would be great to do more to show off or propagate TileCache.
>
> thx,
>
>
> jo
>
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