[Live-demo] What common datasets do we need?

[Cameron Shorter]

Bob, Nathan, and others,

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the suitability of Simon's 
datasets, described below, for use as a common OSGeo-Live dataset.

On 27/05/11 09:05, Simon Cropper wrote:
> On 27/05/11 08:36, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> On 27/05/11 07:27, Bob Basques wrote:
>>> Personally I believe there needs to be a set of data for various
>>> levels of resolution as a global set, and I don't see the GE datasets
>>> filling this need entirely (yet), Maybe the GeoMoose datasets can be
>>> used in some of this capacity. The reason I thought of putting them
>>> into their own containers (folders) was to provide a flexibility for
>>> others to use if they so desired. They can also be easily removed in
>>> the future. I'm also planning on building separate Viewers for each,
>>> but I can also build a composite viewer. Each of these using a single
>>> frontend jump page (index.html) to get to.
>>
>> Bob,
>> If the Natural Earth dataset doesn't provide data in the right format to
>> highlight GeoMoose examples, then we should probably source another
>> common dataset which can be used by multiple applications.
>> I remember Simon Cropper had similar comments a while back when he was
>> creating tutorials for gvsig.
>>
>> So my question is, what dataset should we provide? (The data should be
>> suitably licenced, either public domain as per Natural Earth, or another
>> open licence like Creative Commons).
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> 1. I am not part of the live-demo at list.osgeo.org group so not sure it 
> will get to the list so you may wish to repost this response there.
> 2. I have collated data suitable for use on the live-demo CD either to 
> be distributed with it or referenced and downloaded on demand as the 
> current dataset is done. All the datasets collated are CC-BY-SA and 
> are at a resolution that most Natural Resource Managers in Australia 
> use. Check out this description of what is available here....
>
> http://gis.fossworkflowguides.com/#data
>
> 3. Cameron, from a users point of view I believe that most people 
> trialling the software on the live-demo-CD want to play using 
> information at a resolution they would typically encounter. In my 
> experience this involves local to occasionally regional datasets. It 
> is rare that people use continental or global datasets. Things like 
> what I have provided and some of the USA sites with high resolution 
> imagery and vector data are ideal.
>


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