Geodata Committee Seventh Meeting

Meeting Info

 Chair: Chris Schmidt 
 Minutes: Jo Walsh
 IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org
 Date: 2006-July-20 (at least in the Americas and Europe)
 Time: (fixed time)

This is intended as a fairly low-key and relaxed meeting - checking up on the status of our repository project - and a random brainstorming discussion about interfaces to it that was postponed from last week.

Agenda

• Checkup on telascience status for geodata processing - see also SAC Service Status
  • The Geodata Repository plan needs a person to be 'responsible' for helping people who have volunteered get the help or guidance they need.
  • Geodata Metadata Requirements - Jo's done some work on implementing a simple backend for this
• Any messages to put in a pamphlet for OSCON?

General discussion postponed from last meeting

• Some type of browsing interface for the data neccesary:
  • OpenLayers for Raster/Vector data? Easy to set up, might not be full featured enough for some people?
  • Perhaps Ka-Map's tile.php as cached layer to feed both kamap and openlayers?
  • Single-image screenshots for Raster data as overviews
  • Vector dataset descriptions: What various attributes are/mean (better metadata)
  • GeoRSS out to get updates, with bounding boxes -- need to get some way to display this data, does anything do GeoRSS rendering with bounding boxes right now?

• Feel free to add...