Geodata Repository

The notes on the Talk:Geodata_Repository Talk page for this page describe the background to this effort

= Data sources =

Sources of public geodata for initial setup in a repository.

VMap0

 * PostGIS storage for vector data.
 * Geoserver as a WFS
 * Ongoing generation of per-country and per-region shapefiles; distribution via HTTP and via geotorrents.org

Blue Marble NG

 * Mapserver as WMS

Landsat-7

 * Mapserver as WMS
 * Telascience already serving the raw data - http://onearth.telascience.org/

Status
A full list of suggestions for public domain data sets that are nice-to-haves is maintained at Geodata Discovery Working Group

Metadata

 * Geodata Metadata Requirements - a baseline for what would be asked for / expected of data sets in an OSGeo repository
 * A simple metadata-in-GeoRSS webservice that is also as FGDC compliant as possible/desirable.
 * WCS?

Related efforts

 * MapDex offers a metadata search facility
 * GeoNames is a gazetteer and naming collection
 * http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.search
 * http://geoportail-geoportal.ainc-inac.gc.ca/metaindex_e.asp