On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Hugo Ahlenius <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi friends, > > In case it might be useful to anyone - I worked with some UN Population > Division statistics recently, and in the process I geocoded all the urban > areas in the stats. I thought I could release this enhanced database to the > community, to give something back for all the great free resources that I use > in my daily life. > > The data is here, and I have smacked a CC license on the database.
Many thanks for your generosity, however, in order to make the data really usable by anyone anywhere in the world, please consider releasing the data under a public domain waiver such as PDDL, or better yet, CC0, especially since your data may have copyrightable elements. CC0 is the most appropriate waiver for such data. CC licenses are not appropriate for data, and are discouraged by CC itself. > It is available for download in various formats, and I also created an > animation video clip, a kml-file and a nice looking map. > > The data contains a database of large urban areas for the whole world, > 1950-2050. > > http://nordpil.com/go/resources/world-database-of-large-cities/ > > Cheers, > Hugo > > > > -- > Hugo Ahlenius > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Hugo Ahlenius E-Mail: hugo.ahlenius(at)nordpil.com > Phone: +46 75 7575284 > Nordpil Fax: +46 8 6747020 > http://nordpil.com Mobile: +46 733 467111 > Skype: callto:hugo.ahlenius > > vCard: http://nordpil.com/hugoahlenius.vcf > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= Sent from Madison, WI, United States _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
