[SAC] Home for MetaCarta Labs Vmap0 tiles

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:17 PM,  <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The MetaCarta Labs vmap0 tile service (available for the
> past four years from
>
>  http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0
> )
>
> needs to find a new home. I'd like to host it with OSGeo,
> if that is amenable to SAC. I would hope to use a URL like
>
>  http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/
>
> And host it on the webextra VM.
>
> The service itself is reasonably optimized for performance,
> and has never caused a significant performance problem for the
> server it has been hosted on. The disk space requirements are
> approximately 4GB-5GB.
>
> I would set this service up and maintain it; if it turned out
> to be too heavy to be hosted as part of the webextra VM, I would
> look for another home for it.
>
> Is there anyone who would have a problem with that? Is there some
> more formal approval process, or is a majority vote of the SAC
> mailing list sufficient?

IMHO a nice asset for OSGeo to have more geodata in-house!

+1 if that matters,

Markus