Alright, There are two separate but very necessarily interrelated things here. Data Processing, and Data Hosting. Luckily, unlike the chicken and the egg, in this case we know which needs to come first.
I still think that the first priority is get the processes documented for both obtaining and post-processing public datasets to a well sorted/indexed/generalized form for different resolutions that can be useful for at least the three communities identified so far -- Geoserver, Mapserver, and WorldWind. For now let people get thier own data from the source and host it themselves --- just make it as easy as possible. Do we need another mailing list for this topic as well as a WIKI? I want to shove this forward as much as I can, but I'd like to have as large a pool of "data massagers" as possible to work on this. On a side note, the FEF sounds really cool. On 1/24/06, Matt Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Just signed up... > Wanted to add a bit to what Adam Hill said here. First off, we're not > 501(c)(3) tax exempt yet (We are an incorporated non profit, just not tax > exempt), but we're working on it. We expect to be tax exempt within the next > 6 months to 1 year. > > As we speak we have a Dual Xeon 3 Ghz machine with 1 TB of storage going > online in Seattle. Next to my desk, we have our next server, which is a Dual > Core Opteron with 800 GB of storage which will be online within a few weeks > (they shipped us out the wrong chassis). > > We're going to have about 48u of rack space available in Seattle Westin > (datacenter) for either our own equipment or other geo related stuff that > we'll be sponsoring. It will be behind a gigabit switch that is being > donated from Foundry Networks (foundry.com) and be on 450 mbps (3xOC3) of > bandwidth that is being donated by Randy Bush (psg.com). > > While it is true, that initially we're going to be offering only World Wind > Tile format, we're going to be working on getting WMS access to that up as > soon as possible. The reduce the cost of equipment, we've decided to get a > separate "processing cluster" which is going to be composed of (eventually) > 100 high end Pentium 3's (1 ghz, 256 MB ram, 20 GB disk). This is obviously, > to reduce our costs while still having an appropriate amount of "umph" > power. (We can get these Pentium 3's from anywhere from free to 50$ each) > > Anyway, feel free to let me know off-list of anyone needs anything in the > way of hosting or such, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll see if we can get > something arranged. > > Oh, and BTW, we're in talks with GeoEye to get some IKONOS imagery released > for use in World Wind ;) > > > Matt Mills > Director, The Free Earth Foundation > Office: (267)-895-0096 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Chris Holmes > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Multi-Resolution Dataset Wiki > > The FEF is a small 503(c), started by a bunch of WW hackers, that > pretty much only has bootstrap funding from Adsense and donations on > WorldWind Central (http://www.worldwindcentral.com). We dont have an > informational website up yet. (they are/were busy working on a > processing cluster) > > Basically we are looking for free datasets to archive, process and > tile, currently we are WorldWind centric on the serving side, since > our donators are only providing space and not a full hosting > environment, WW has a very simple level, x/y grid that can be served > up with only HTTP, no WMS required. The P2P idea is attractive, but it > doesnt seem scalable with 100's of 1000's of small JPG/PNG's. Someone > prove me wrong :) > > If we had some processing power that was scalable to 100K's of users > we could set up WMS/WFS as well. We have also thought about how to > present a 'default tile grid' spec to the OGC - > www.ceteranet.com/nww-tile-struct.pdf is the current way WW does it, > but are unsure about how it would be recieved. > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
