Hi Karsten, On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM, karsten <kars...@terragis.net> wrote:
> Dear All, > > I just had a colleague ask me about open data repositories for GIS files. > Despite knowing the usual suspects such as OSM, GeoWiki, Natural earth data > , > Global administrative areas and so on I am not aware that there would be > a more general option to store general research GIS data e.g. for > scientific purposes such as agricultural research results ... > > The original request from my colleague is: *"Regarding open GIS data, > where are the most stable/accessible/well known depositories of open access > data that researchers can add their data to? We are thinking of the > possibilities for archiving data layers so that they can be used by anyone, > but ( ideally) without us having to take responsibility for running the > servers etc. As an example for non-spatial data we use Dataverse."* > > Would anyone be aware of such a repository ? > Have a look at WorldMap. https://about.worldmap.harvard.edu/ It shows the map online, you can download it, and the website says that they are working on an integration with Datavese. It is also fully open source. Best, Vaclav
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