Geodata Committee Meeting 20060406
Public Geospatial Data Committee Meeting 2006-Apr-06
Meeting Info
Chair: Jo Walsh Minutes: Schuyler Erle IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org Date: 2006-Apr-06 (at least in the Americas and Europe) Time: Wednesday, 16:00 UTC
Agenda Items
Old Business
- Review minutes from last meeting
- Actions from previous meeting
New Business
- Specific discussion of data sets to be hosted at Telascience
- Deciding on baseline Geodata Metadata Requirements
- Any other business?
Minutes
Attendance
Schuyler Erle, John Graham, Jeff McKenna, Jo Walsh, Frank Warmerdam
please add yourself ;-)
Data Hosting
- The [Public Geospatial Data Committee] plans to host data at http://osgeo.telascience.org/, courtesy of John Graham and the SDSC.
- Agreed we should start by hosting +/- two showcase data sets, one raster, one vector.
- Agreed we should host download via HTTP, download via BitTorrent, and OGC Web Service access.
- Agreed we should peer datasets through [GeoTorrent]. Noted that they have strict requirements vis a vis formats (Shapefile, GeoTIFF) and projection (EPSG 4326) of hosted data sets that may not meet our needs. Frank Warmerdam will speak with Richard Orchard about GeoTorrent about this.