[Live-demo] Natural Earth mirror/distribution

[Alex Mandel]

Brian,

I think we should bring it up with the OSGeo board. You can also mention
to Mr. Kelso that my lab might be interested in serving a mirror too.
http://ice.ucdavis.edu

Please pass him my contact info.

Thanks,
Alex

On 04/03/2010 09:19 AM, Brian Hamlin 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
> 
> ==
> Brian Hamlin
> planetwork.net
> OSGeo California Chapter
> (415) 717-4462 cell
> 
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