If we could use Codehaus that would probably be better than myself just setting something up on my ISP account.
It looks like the links you sent are already a great start (also if its in PostGIS, its only a pgsql2shp away from being a shapefile). It's exactly the problems inherent in trying to assemble and then host these datasets that I would hope we could get around by having easy enough scripts that anyone could use to assemble from the original government sources. Let the public agencies host the data in whatever format and then just provide an easy way for anyone to stitch it together however they want. > David Blasby wrote up a lot of his notes when he was going through the > process of attempting to set up a public WMS/WFS (which hit many > roadblocks of faulty servers, but which we still hope to get up). It's > on a wiki, though currently within the GeoServer documentation: > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Data+Loading I think if there > was a more generic place for us to post this type of information we'd > be happy to put it there. It's focused on PostGIS instead of > shapefiles, but I think a nice wiki would give people a few options, > and discuss the advantages/disadvantages of each. I do think it's a > great idea to have a public wiki to post this information, since many > people are grappling with the same set of problems. > > If you don't want to host the wiki yourself, I imagine we could fairly > easily get a new space on codehaus's confluence, which is a really nice > wiki, where GeoServer, GeoTools and MapBuilder also live. They could > probably also host a subversion repository for scripts. Once The Open > Planning Project gets the WMS/WFS up we could consider hosting straight > shapefiles as well (though GeoServer can produce Shapefiles through its > WFS, so one should be able to get polished shapefiles directly out of > it, but we may need some scalability improvements to the server if it > becomes popular). > > best regards, > > Chris > > *** > Chris Holmes > The Open Planning Project > thoughts at: http://cholmes.wordpress.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: https://webmail.limegroup.com/ > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
