Geodata processing at telascience.org

Background

As one objective of OSGeo, we want to generate/update/enhance existing free geodata for the community. This comprises re-packaging, data storage in convenient formats, tiling and other.

We are kindly supported by http://telascience.org (available resources).

Status of geodata.telascience.org

Participants

• Markus Neteler
• Frank Warmerdam
• Martin Spott

Installed Software

I have installed the following software packages on geodata.telascience.org:

• geos 2.2.3
• proj 4.5.0 - SPEC file
• ogdi-CVS (17 August 2006) - compiled with external proj, expat, zlib
• GDAL 1.3.2 - SPEC file
• GRASS 6.2.0 - SPEC file
• GDAL-OGR-GRASS plugin - SPEC file
• OSSIM (19 August 2006) - default compilation
• FWTools 1.0.5 - in /usr/local/FWTools-1.0.5, use "fwtools" alias to add to path

Source code:

• /home/neteler/software/<software>
• if taken from CVS, anon-CVS was used
• configuration is saved in each subdir as "conf_<software>.sh"

Binaries:

• all binaries are installed into /usr/local/*
• /usr/local/lib was added to /etc/ld.so.conf

Apache

Apache is running with a default configuration. The web site contents goes in /var/www/html. After a machine restart it may be necessary to restart apache with "apachectl restart" as root/sudo.

Geodata processing

• data are stored on geodata.telascience.org in /geodata/<user>
• only root/sudo can add further directories in /geodata/ (FrankW, markusN, hobu, ...)

Data: VMAP0 1:1Mio World Vector Data

• /geodata/markus/vmap0/
• eur, sas, soa are from 2000, noa from 2002
• status: downloaded
• TODO:
  • convert to SHAPE
  • tile into smaller pieces
  • cleanup attributes
  • remove annoying grid lines (dissolve in GRASS)
  • enrich country maps with population data (see here for inspiration, I have their SQL code somewhere)
• There is now also a PostGIS installation of VMAP0 on the xxx telascience machine (define access possibilities here)

Data: GSHHS World Costline Vector Data

• /geodata/markus/gshhs1.5/
• from Sept. 2004
• status: downloaded (original server disappeared, but MN had a copy)
• TODO:
  • convert to SHAPE
  • tile into smaller pieces
  • cleanup/add attributes

Data: Gazetteer data World from geonames.org

• /geodata/markus/geonames.org/
  • database dump in dump_17aug2006/
  • docs in docs/
  • fetch.sh script in the dump/ directory for future downloads
• status: downloaded
• TODO:
  • convert to SHAPE?
  • insert into PostGIS? - see docs/geonames_dump_into_postgresql.txt