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 (e.g. 'we') 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 these datasets in their original formats first, before adding derivative/value-added versions.
- 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 data format requirements for hosted data sets that may not meet our needs -- e.g. VMap0. Frank Warmerdam will speak with Richard Orchard of GeoTorrent about this.
- Schuyler volunteers to sketch out a plan for hosting two initial datasets, most likely VMap0 and Blue Marble NG (both of which John already has downloaded to the server).