Fw: Re: [Live-demo] how much space for data?

[Hamish]

[fwd due to non-subscription bouce. sorry about the horrible
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Tyler wrote:
> I encourage its use, but also a Sydney/AU example would be certainly
> cool for the locals to see in action.

Helena wrote:
> - see my previous email - how about making an australian version
> of smaller NC dataset? It has just a few rasters and vector data
> maps that I am sure are available in AU.
> I can send you a list of what is in there, even further subset of
> it would work - just the names should be the same so that the
> tutorials do not need any changes,


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--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:

> From: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity.ncsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] how much space for data?
> Cc: live-demo lists.osgeo.org, geodata lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 3:43 AM
> Hamish,
> 
> I prepared a simpler, smaller subset of this data set
> (47MB, simpler,  
> easy to understand names) -
> it is available from here:
> http://grass.osgeo.org/download/data.php
> 
> I noticed they are  packaged in an extra directory -
> let me know if  
> that is an issue,
> I can re-package. I was hoping that others would prepare
> data sets  
> with the files
> with the same names but from different countries so that
> the same  
> tutorial
> written based on this data set can be run with data from
> different  
> countries without
> the need to change the tutorial.
> 
> The larger data set is also availble as shape, geotiff
> and  
> geodatabase with some
> data provided as KML as well.
> 
> Helena
> 
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:31 PM, Hamish wrote:
> 
> > Ricardo wrote:
> >> DVD Disk space is limited! (to 4.7 GB)
> >> But we will soon fill it all with installed apps!
> >> There seems to exist lots of FOSS4G nowadays.
> hehe...
> >
> > Stefan wrote:
> >> As far as Postgres/gis is concerned, I think, it
> might be
> >> a good idea to have a single instance running that
> is started
> >> during the boot process.
> >> Many of the apps on the VM/DVD will be able to
> access it. It
> >> could provide a rather limited sample data set,
> which the other
> >> apps can use in their examples.
> >
> > so a great way to save on disk space would be to all
> share the
> > same dataset whenever possible.
> >
> > Apparently lots of software want to a PostGIS DB,
> great.
> >
> >
> > For others, anything that can be represented by
> GeoTIFFs,
> > Shapefiles, and the like could all start their
> tutorials with
> > the common task of importing them.
> >
> >
> > I'd note there is already a sample dataset prepared
> for OSGeo
> > Edu, namely the North Carolina free dataset (native
> format
> > edition)
> >
> > see  http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php
> >  (original formats download near the end of the
> page)
> >
> >
> >
> > Hamish