[GRASSLIST:517] Re: Shipping data with GNU/Linux distributions

[Bernhard Reiter]

I believe that we should limit the amount of data or layers
in a first step and only make sure that there is a packaged
version for grass that you can add this data package to
and when you fire up GRASS for the first time, you have it
ready for display directly.

Thus for this first step it is desireable to have at least
one layer of each principle type of information.
This is good about spearfish, raster, vector and sites.

	Bernhard

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:05PM +1200, H Bowman wrote:
> > > > how feasible is it to have a default location? 
> [...]
> > > > Would you suggest shipping the spearfish data? 
> [...] 
> > Yes, but what is the use of spearfish?  Not much.  OK for practice,
> > but nothing else.
> 
> 
> That's the whole point isn't it? As many/most of the tutorials use
> Spearfish, it's exactly what is asked for. To cover data imports, maybe
> a WGS84 version of one of the site lists could be included in a
> x,y,label formatted ascii text file. 

> As far as a demo global datasets go, my list would include coastline,
> lakes, rivers, roads, and political boundaries. Soil/veg types may be
> too huge to use? If this could be kept smaller than ~5mb compressed, all
> the better, and that shouldn't be too hard if it is only vectors. 
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