[Live-demo] Re: [Geodata] Natural Earth on the OSGeo-Live DVD

[Cameron Shorter]

Nathaniel,
I'm impressed, you get started fast.
This is good material, but we need to summarise the content. You 
currently have  around 4 pages, and we need to cut back to around 1 
page, to be consistent with rest of material.

Could you also please start putting docs into subversion. You will need 
to start by creating an OSGeo user id here: 
http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid
  then ask me to give you permission to update the svn repository as per:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Subversion

The key principle here is "Less words get read by more people".

I'll email you a first review of your doc separately.

On 15/12/10 11:02, Nathaniel V. KELSO wrote:
> Here's a draft writeup:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NP0XvizA_Q0_2ELu10nincj52mrJ1_6g4s575kwj2As/edit?hl=en
>
> _n
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 15/12/2010 6:30 AM, Nathaniel V. KELSO wrote:
>>> Cameron,
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm best point of contact for Natural Earth.
>> Excellent.
>>> So you need two pages?
>>> http://live.osgeo.org/overview/openlayers_overview.html
>>> http://live.osgeo.org/quickstart/openlayers_quickstart.html
>> The Overview would be very valuable, but the quickstart is targeted at
>> applications rather than datasets, so I suggest Quickstart is not required.
>>
>> Of note, the template we have provided is targeted at applications, and may
>> need to be adjusted in places for a dataset description.
>>
>> I've created a new line item in our status spreadsheet for "naturalearth".
>> As you go through the process of getting naturalearth included, it would be
>> good if you could update this spreadsheet (you can start by adding your name
>> down as a contact):
>> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=8
>>
>> If you have any questions, please ask.
>>
>>> The overview page should be easy. The quickstart I'm a little less
>>> clear on. Is this needed? Or something that just walks someone thru
>>> adding a couple layers to QGIS?
>>>
>>> What is your deadline? Hopefully after the holidays...
>> We'd like Overviews complete by 24 January 2011, but if you can complete
>> sooner, than would be better, in order to give volunteers time to review and
>> translate. There are more details about the next release, including schedule
>> in our last press release here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_11
>>
>>
>>> _n
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Cameron Shorter
>>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> Hello Nathan,
>>>> I understand from this email thread below that you would be the best
>>>> point
>>>> of contact for the NaturalEarth dataset?
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to help promote NaturalEarth through the OSGeo Live DVD, which
>>>> is
>>>> handed out at Geospatial conferences around the world, and with the next
>>>> release, is expected to be getting translated into multiple languages
>>>> (currently 6).
>>>>
>>>> We have included some of the datasets on the LiveDVD and we are
>>>> encouraging
>>>> the 40 applications packaged on the DVD to make use of these datasets.
>>>>
>>>> What would be really helpful would be if you (or someone else at
>>>> NaturalEarth), could create and then maintain a one page marketing
>>>> document
>>>> for NaturalEarth which we can include on the DVD.
>>>>
>>>> You can see what such pages should look like by looking at the
>>>> application
>>>> overviews linked from here:
>>>> http://live.osgeo.org/overview/overview.html
>>>>
>>>> The process for creating a document is described here:
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview
>>>>
>>>> Nathan,
>>>> I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
>>>>
>>>> On 15/12/10 01:05, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Brian Hamlin<maplabs at light42.com>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All-
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   At the just-over Where 2.0 OSGeo booth, Mr. Nathan Vaughn Kelso
>>>>>> stopped
>>>>>> by
>>>>>> from the Washington Post. He and others are behind the cartographically
>>>>>> lovely Natural Earth data set. The Natural Earth team I think they are
>>>>>> pretty happy with the results, and have received critical acclaim...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   So Mr. Kelso inquired if and how we, OSGeo would like to host or
>>>>>> promote
>>>>>> the set... Apparently a minimal set of all vector, plus two basic
>>>>>> raster,
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> around 670 mb.  (the whole set of rasters brings it up to 4-6 GB ?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   seems like a great fit to me... Ideas ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   best regards
>>>>>>    -Brian
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>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>> Geospatial Director
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>>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
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>>
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>>
>>


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