Difference between revisions of "Geodata Discovery Working Group"
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== Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution == | == Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution == | ||
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** [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ NGA GNS Gazetteer] | ** [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ NGA GNS Gazetteer] | ||
** [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/BlueMarble-Placenames.zip?download WorldWind Placenames] (markusN can provide PERL to read this) | ** [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/BlueMarble-Placenames.zip?download WorldWind Placenames] (markusN can provide PERL to read this) | ||
+ | ** [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer | ||
* Vector data | * Vector data | ||
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** RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada | ** RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada | ||
** [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] | ** [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] | ||
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* Raster data | * Raster data |
Revision as of 13:22, 30 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
- David Bitner
- Perry Nacionales
- please add yourself
- Mapdex is "a global Index of 2,018 servers, serving 37,168 map services, containing over 400,000 GIS Layers, covering more than 4,000,000 columns!"
- GeoTorrent hosts BitTorrents of shapefile/TIFF format data.
- GeoNetwork "Find Interactive Maps, GIS datasets, Satellite Imagery and Related Applications"
- DLESE Collection System offers a metadata repository and editor
Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution
- Gazetteer Data (basically placenames with coordinates)
- NGA GNS Gazetteer
- WorldWind Placenames (markusN can provide PERL to read this)
- Geonames.org gazetteer
- Vector data
- VMAP0 - 1:1Mio, very generalised vector data for many features, around 70 layers
- GSHHS - world coastlines, different scales available
- TIGER/Line (USA) - street and addressing data for the US
- RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada
- OpenStreetMap
- Satellite Data
- Landsat (OnEarth mirror already at telascience)
- Blue Marble / Blue Marble Next Generation (mirror already at telascience)
- ASTER
- MODIS
- Satellite Data
- Maps derived from Satellite Data
- AVHRR Landuse Map from GLCF
- natural earth
- City lights