[Geodata] Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ geodata on OSGEO?

[Hamish]

jo wrote:
> This has been niggling at my mind a bit. One reason is that both these
> projects and the mirror facility that would be an "OSGeo download"
> are *all hosted in the same place*, at Telascience; however you slice
> the index, the bits on the disk are all the same. 
> 
> Telascience is an amazing resource that really does keep on growing
> the more demand we have been able to create. However, this stuff wants
> to be syndicated. I wonder what other (likely academic) organisations
> who already have serious storage infrastructure could offer it freely
> on other continents.

I don't remember if I send this to the GeoData list or not, but Aarnet
might be a place to try for a "local mirror". No idea what they think
about datasets that big or if they would restrict to "AU+NZ only
downloads" to save some bandwidth.

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au


regards,
Hamish




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