[postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

[Mike Swope]

There used to be a service called geotorrent. It'd be nice if someone
started that back up.

How much data are you trying to download? You can still find some of the
DEMs as a file download without having to deal with the seamless site.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ron M
<rm_postgis at cheapcomplexdevices.com>wrote:

> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Stephen Woodbridge (woodbri at swoodbridge.com) wrote:
> >> Thanks! that is exactly what I needed to know. I'm in the painful
> >> process of downloading the NED data from there seamless download
> >> application - I can not tell you how frustrating these stupid apps are.
> >> Just give me a simple ftp site and wget would be so much easier for the
> >> users.
> >
> > Sure would be nice of someone to put up the data set on an FTP (or, even
> > better, easily wget'd HTTP) site once they've pulled it from the USGS
> > site... :)
>
> Or at that size, perhaps bittorrent.
>
>
>
> Or, another potential place -- an Amazon Web Service Public Data Set:
>   http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
> "Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of
> public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS
> cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets
> at no charge for the community"
>
> I find their pre-loaded PostGIS open-street-map and 2008 TIGER/LINE
> data extremely convenient:
>
> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=275
>
>
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