[GRASS-dev] sample vector temporal data

[Moritz Lennert]

On 26/11/14 18:10, Luca Delucchi wrote:
> On 8 October 2014 at 03:21, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>> as you know we need to decide which data are we going to use for t.vect.*
>> examples. One possibility is to use oceanfront shorelines of North Carolina,
>> we can get this data easily from here:
>>
>> http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/cm/download-spatial-data-maps-oceanfront
>>
>> It includes these years, interval data in case of older data, and instance
>> data from the past years:
>> 1849 - 1873, 1925 - 1946, 1933 - 1952, 1940 - 1962, 1970 - 1988, 1997, 1998,
>> 2003, 2004, 2009
>>
>> The advantage is that the data is public and basically ready to use. If we
>> decide to use it, should we include the entire NC shoreline or just some
>> detail (look at the attachment)?
>>
>> In addition, we can also create a vector time-series where the geometry is
>> not changing, just the attribute changes (derived from the climate data for
>> example).
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>
> After some weeks without any comments I think we could proceed to
> create the dataset.
>
>> By the way, the climate dataset seems to be fine, we got the confirmation we
>> can use it, it is not subject to the PRISM licence since it was interpolated
>> at NC State Climate Office.
>>
>
> I would like to work on it and on temporal documentation in the next
> two days, so what do you think about this plan starting from the
> sample data for the temporal workshop [0]?
> - remove some years from climate_2000_2012 data, for example keep no
> more that 5 years, because right know the location is a little bit
> heavy (about 700MB) and for documentation 5 years should be fine.

+1

> - create vector for static temporal dataset from towns querying the
> rasters in climate_2000_2012 to create something like virtual weather
> stations

Not sure what you mean by static temporal dataset ? Why do we need this 
in addition to the below shoreline data ?

> - add the shoreline ocean data, maybe in a new mapset

+1, including for separate mapset

> - create at least one temporal dataset for each type (strds, str3ds, stvds)

+1, but as you say yourself, be careful about mapset size !

> - update the temporal documentation according the new dataset.
> what do you think?

Sounds good to me.

Thanks a lot for taking care of this !

Moritz