Geodata Committee Meeting 20060406

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Public Geospatial Data Committee Meeting 2006-Apr-06

Meeting Info

 Chair: Jo Walsh
 Minutes: Schuyler Erle
 IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org
 Date: 2006-Apr-06 (at least in the Americas and Europe)
 Time: Wednesday, 16:00 UTC

Agenda Items

Old Business

New Business

Minutes

Attendance

Schuyler Erle, John Graham, Jeff McKenna, Jo Walsh, Frank Warmerdam

please add yourself ;-)

IRC Log

Data Hosting

  • The [Public Geospatial Data Committee] plans to host data at http://osgeo.telascience.org/, courtesy of John Graham and the SDSC.
  • Agreed we should start by hosting +/- two showcase data sets, one raster, one vector.
  • Agreed we should host download via HTTP, download via BitTorrent, and OGC Web Service access.
  • Agreed we should peer datasets through [GeoTorrent]. Noted that they have strict requirements vis a vis formats (Shapefile, GeoTIFF) and projection (EPSG 4326) of hosted data sets that may not meet our needs. Frank Warmerdam will speak with Richard Orchard about GeoTorrent about this.

Metadata Standards

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