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== Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution ==
 
== Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution ==
  
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* Gazetteer Data (basically placenames with coordinates)
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=== Gazetteer Data ===
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** [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ NGA GNS Gazetteer]
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... basically placenames with coordinates ...
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** [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/BlueMarble-Placenames.zip?download WorldWind Placenames] (markusN can provide PERL to read this)
 
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** [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer
 
  
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* Vector data
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* [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ NGA GNS Gazetteer]
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** VMAP0 - 1:1Mio, very generalised vector data for many features, around 70 layers
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* [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/BlueMarble-Placenames.zip?download WorldWind Placenames] (markusN can provide PERL to read this)
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** [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html GSHHS] - world coastlines, different scales available
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* [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer
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** TIGER/Line (USA) - street and addressing data for the US
 
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** RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada
 
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** [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] - data available through a [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST HTTP based XML interface]. They've also been getting requests for shapefile and GML output of their data.
 
  
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* Raster data
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=== Vector data ===
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** DEM
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* VMAP0 - 1:1Mio, very generalised vector data for many features, around 70 layers
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*** [ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2 SRTM V2]
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* [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html GSHHS] - world coastlines, different scales available
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*** [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html ETOPO2]
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* TIGER/Line (USA) - street and addressing data for the US
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*** [http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html TOPEX]: SRTM30 (with GTOPO30 data for high latitudes where SRTM data are not available)
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* RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada
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*** [http://ekman.csc.noaa.gov/TCM/ NOAA TCM] LIDAR / IfSAR
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* [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] - data available through a [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST HTTP based XML interface]. They've also been getting requests for shapefile and GML output of their data.
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** Satellite Data
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*** Landsat ([http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ OnEarth mirror already at telascience])
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=== Raster data ===
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*** [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ Blue Marble] / [http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/stockli/bmng/ Blue Marble Next Generation] (mirror already at telascience)
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* DEM
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*** ASTER
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** [ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2 SRTM V2]
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*** MODIS
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** [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html ETOPO2]
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** Maps derived from Satellite Data
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** [http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html TOPEX]: SRTM30 (with GTOPO30 data for high latitudes where SRTM data are not available)
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*** [http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/landcover/ AVHRR Landuse Map] from GLCF
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** [http://ekman.csc.noaa.gov/TCM/ NOAA TCM] LIDAR / IfSAR
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*** [http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural/ natural earth]
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* Satellite Data
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*** [http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/projects/lights.html City lights]
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** Landsat ([http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ OnEarth mirror already at telascience])
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** [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ Blue Marble] / [http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/stockli/bmng/ Blue Marble Next Generation] (mirror already at telascience)
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** ASTER
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** MODIS
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* Maps derived from Satellite Data
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** [http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/landcover/ AVHRR Landuse Map] from GLCF
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** [http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural/ natural earth]
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** [http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/projects/lights.html City lights]
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** [http://www.worldwildlife.org/freshwater/hydrosheds.cfm HydroSHEDS] - Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales
  
 
== Hosting Plan ==
 
== Hosting Plan ==

Revision as of 03:13, 20 April 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

Existing and related projects

Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution

Gazetteer Data

... basically placenames with coordinates ...

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 - data available through a HTTP based XML interface. They've also been getting requests for shapefile and GML output of their data.

Raster data

Hosting Plan

(placeholder for an initial hosting plan sketch)

See Also

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