Geodata Discovery Working Group

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

• Jo Walsh
• Schuyler Erle
• David Bitner
• Perry Nacionales
• please add yourself

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
  • GSHHS
  • TIGER/Line (USA)
  • RNF (Canada)
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Geonames.org gazetteer
  • WorldWind Placenames
• Raster data
  • LandSat
  • SRTM
  • Blue Marble / Blue Marble NG
  • ASTER
  • MODIS
  • AVHRR

See Also

• Geodata Packaging Working Group
• Geodata Licensing Working Group