[Live-demo] What dataset should your application use on the LiveDVD?

[Micha Silver]

On 06/11/2010 09:55 AM, Hamish wrote:
> Micha wrote:
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>> I've collected, for a training course, a dataset of the
>> region of Bosnia-Herzegovina which includes some layers from
>> naturalearth.com and
>> VMAP0, two bands of a a landsat tile (4&  3 for an NDVI
>> exercise) the
>> SRTM coverage for that region, and an OSM file of Sarajevo.
>> Zipped up
>> with 7z it comes to 100 MB. Unzipped it's over 300 MB.
>> All sources are unfettered with licencing problems.
>>      
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> nice!
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I've not done anything special, just cookie cutting.
> image is compressed, so zipped size is what matters.
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> OSM data should be re-downloaded at the last minute using Xapi
> (see install_osm.sh).
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> landsat etc in geotiffs? natural earth,vmap0 in shapefiles?
> (esp do not want raw vmap0 dcw format; too complicated)
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Yes, all shape and geotiffs.
> is the training course material published under a C.C. license
> or so? :)
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Yes. It's directed towards QGIS, but that would be easy to adapt to any 
other desktop GIS.
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