[mapguide-internals] Additional sample data set for MapGuide

[Trevor Wekel]

Hi everyone,

The OSGeo LiveDVD project has placed a subset of the Natural Earth data set (http://www.naturalearthdata.com) on the DVD for all projects to use.  They are only including a subset of the data to keep the disc usage in check.  Would it be reasonable to add the following dataset as an additional sample data set for MapGuide?  Should we also include additional data from Natural Earth?  The data is in SHP and TIFF format.

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/
# Populated Places (simple, less columns) 1:10m
# Admin 0 - Countries 1:10m
# Urban Areas 1:10m

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/10m-populated-places-simple.zip
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/10m-admin-0-countries.zip
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/10m-urban-area.zip

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/
# Land 1:10m
# Ocean 1:10m
# Lakes + Reservoirs 1:10m
# Rivers, Lake Ceterlines 1:10m
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/physical/10m-land.zip
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/physical/10m-ocean.zip
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/physical/10m-lakes.zip
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/physical/10m-rivers-lake-centerlines.zip

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-raster-data/
# Cross Blended Hypso with Shaded Relief and Water 1:50 million
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/raster/HYP_50M_SR_W.zip


I did a quick check on the website and there are roughly 100 vector data sets at various scales:
22 SHP files for 1:110m
33 SHP files for 1:50m,
58 SHP files for 1:10m

The full data set could be used as a freely-available "100 layer map" for testing purposes.  The download size for the full vector set is 145MB.  It would take a while to author a 100 layer map though... 


Regards,
Trevor