[Live-demo] Last Call for PostGIS Datasets

[Brian Hamlin]

On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Brian,
> I hear what you are saying about the natural earth having bland data 
> to work with.
>
> I suggest that since we haven't much time for this release, go with 
> the natural earth dataset, and potentially get a better dataset with 
> the next release.
>
> Best to go for the simple and achievable right now, and improve later.
>

true
and, minutes ago, Mark Leslie initiated a contact with someone in Spain
regarding a decent data set...

how about...
I go ahead and add Natural Earth..
it will be there in any event, with little penalty, since its only 12MB

then in the next few days
if something spanish-friendy shows up, we can work with that

Somehow, parcel records from Oregon seem uniquely out of place for 
Barcelona
:-)

best regards from Berkeley
   -Brian


> On 19/07/10 11:32, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>> Hi All-
>>
>>    I am looking at the 10m Natural Earth vectors as a PostGIS 
>> database..
>> its very compact.. perhaps 12 MB when loaded.. on the other hand,
>> there aren't a lot of interesting corners in there, from a data point 
>> of view..
>> (not too surprising, since it is a visual treatment, first and 
>> foremost)
>>
>>  The basic dataset in the examples from the LiveDVD v3 was 'medford'
>> Medford is a rich, detailed and interesting set.. about 70-80MB when 
>> loaded..
>>
>>   At some point soon, the examples, quickstart, or equivalent are 
>> going to have to be written for the LiveDVD v4 such that it refers to 
>> something in PostGIS. Right now we have the osm_local, Barcelona, 
>> which, while great for rendering via Mapnik, is a particularly poor 
>> choice for general PostGIS demonstration..
>>
>>  So, I am wondering aloud what set(s) to use...
>>
>> (I am not going to dig up some cool Spain oriented set in time, of 
>> that I am sure..)
>> (the Sydney set from v3 is not worth re-using)
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>> ==
>> Brian Hamlin
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