Just a thought, but Bittorrent would be a great way to share large map datasets. I personally don't have a public domain dataset of the world but if someone did it would be an easy and economical way to share this information.
Actually a bittorrent + mapserver solution is a novel one. You make a map request to a location-based torrent and receive layer data from one of many seeds. Looking at a way map caching works, the most active location would offer the seed for that location. The major problem is it takes a whole lot of work to create a basemap that is worth a darn, so people license their hard work (and rightly so). It would be a nice, noble effort to provide this information but I have yet anyone take the plunge and offer it for free. Perhaps as the geowanking community is larger you'll start to see this kind of cooperation. /ramblings -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bitner My initial thoughts were that I have seen time and time again efforts to try to host these datasets that just hosting directions to get and process the datasets would get around all that. With hosting like that, it wouldn't hurt to try to get some nice "nested" datasets that can go through the whole gammut of resolutions reasonably seamlessly hosted somewhere. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
