[GRASS-dev] Week 02 Report: GRASS Locations from Public Data

[Luca Delucchi]

On 12 June 2017 at 09:48, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> Hi Zechariah,
>

Hi,

>
> IMHO, I think it would be better if we avoided additional outside
> dependencies as much as possible. Is it really that hard to implement our
> own download routine of SRTM ?
>

+1

>> - Researched USGS data download methods, REST API’s and HTTP protocol
>> - Reviewed The National Map (TNM) API documentation and tested
>> coordinate output methods from g.region as input to TNM API for SRTM ⅓
>> arc sec NED tiles
>
>
> I don't know if you have already made a list of target datasets, but I would
> plead for using global datasets, instead of USA-only datasets, whenever
> possible.
>

+1 also here

> You can check the wiki page on global data sets for inspiration:
>
> https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets
>
> Also don't hesitate to update this page if you come by any other interesting
> global datasets.
>

for example Sentinel data are missing...

> Moritz
>

-- 
ciao
Luca

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