Difference between revisions of "Geodata Discovery Working Group"
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** TIGER/Line (USA) | ** TIGER/Line (USA) | ||
** RNF (Canada) | ** RNF (Canada) | ||
− | ** OpenStreetMap | + | ** [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] |
+ | ** [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer | ||
* Raster data | * Raster data | ||
** LandSat | ** LandSat |
Revision as of 08:31, 29 March 2006
This is a Working Group started by the Public Geospatial Data Committee.
While OSGeo can consider hosting sets of public geodata, (and for the purposes of offering maintained packages of high-quality data for education and demonstration, it probably will), we can compile a set of best practises and references to good prior art for building and maintaining collections of data and metadata.
Focus
- Metadata for collections of geographic information.
- Providing best practise and prototypes for geodata search facilities
- Help with providing input into the OSGeo repository/services at http://osgeo.telascience.org/
- Providing 'catalog'/discovery/search services as part of OSGeo activities in promoting access to public domain and open licensed bodies of data.
Participants
- Jo Walsh
- Schuyler Erle
- please add yourself
Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution
- Vector data
- VMap0
- GSHHS
- TIGER/Line (USA)
- RNF (Canada)
- OpenStreetMap
- Geonames.org gazetteer
- Raster data
- LandSat
- SRTM
- Blue Marble / Blue Marble NG