I think having this data packaged in Debian would be very useful, and as you pointed out especially useful as a Recommends for other packages.
I think your proposed naming and installation location is good. If you were going to package the raster data I would presume you need the source, not the end binary on naturalearth.com On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:59 PM, David Paleino <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello people, > I intend to package some shapefiles available from NaturalEarth [0] (they > mostly are public domain) and from OpenStreetMap (which are under CC-BY-SA, > atm), which might come handy both as package Recommends, and as stand-alone > shapefiles (for use with things like qgis and grass, or even proprietary > applications one might use) > > [0]: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ > > Before uploading things to NEW, and then going through the hassle of renaming > packages and changing everything, I'd like to establish some sort of policy > about the package names, and file locations. > > Here's my proposal: > > - package name: shapefile-<provider>-<name>(-<scale>?) > > Example: > - shapefile-naturalearth-countries-{large,medium,small} > > That package name would correspond to, respectively, > 10m-admin-0-countries, 50m-admin-0-countries and 110m-admin-0-countries. > We could also decide that "large", "medium" and "small" are too generic, and > therefore we could use the scale in the package name (i.e. 1:10.000 would be > "10m"): > > - shapefile-naturalearth-countries-10m > > I don't know what other providers look like, and if we don't know the scale > we could just drop it from the package name (say, like the openstreetmap > coastlines shapefiles). > > - file location > I'd suggest using /usr/share/shapefiles/<provider>/<name>/. > In the example of NE's "countries" above, we would have the following tree: > > /usr/share/shapefiles/ > \ -- naturalearth/ > \ -- countries/ > | -- 10m-admin-0-countries.{shp,...} > | -- 50m-admin-0-countries.{shp,...} > \ -- 110m-admin-0-countries.{shp,...} > > What do you think about all this? > > Have a nice day, > David > > -- > . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino > : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ > `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal > `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cad5vjsukautfsqac_cgdf8hbj1yw0xq_f4exkn-k-hcj+yy...@mail.gmail.com
