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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* Gazetteer Data
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** [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ NGA GNS Gazetteer]
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** [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/BlueMarble-Placenames.zip?download WorldWind Placenames] (markusN can provide PERL to read this)
  
 
* Vector data
 
* Vector data
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** VMap0
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** VMAP0 - 1:1Mio, very generalised vector data for many features, around 70 layers
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** GSHHS
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** [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html GSHHS] - world coastlines, different scales available
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** TIGER/Line (USA)
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** TIGER/Line (USA) - street and addressing data for the US
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** RNF (Canada)
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** RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada
 
** [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap]
 
** [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap]
 
** [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer
 
** [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer
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** WorldWind Placenames
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* Raster data
 
* Raster data
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** LandSat
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** DEM
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** SRTM
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*** [ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2 SRTM V2]
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** Blue Marble / Blue Marble NG
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*** [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html ETOPO2]
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** ASTER
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** MODIS
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** Satellite Data
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** AVHRR
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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]
  
 
== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==

Revision as of 13:21, 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

Existing and related projects

  • 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

  • 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
    • Geonames.org gazetteer


See Also

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