Hi Cameron: I am willing to switch the uDig examples over to the Natural Earth dataset; you could lighten up on the raster datasets in order to provide a more varied dataset. I also note that a DEM should be included in the mix for applications that wish to highlight that functionality.
You may also wish to choose some of the 1:110K data as that will hit many uses cases and the space requirements are smaller. Populated Places: 1:110k - 38.31 KB 1:50k 346.29 KB Admin 1 - States Provinces 1:110k 102.73 KB 1:50k 338.83 KB Jody On 11/06/2010, at 11:03 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > As we are running into physical size limits of the LiveDVD, and as we wish to > provide a level of consistency across applications, the next OSGeo Live DVD > will include a common dataset which we will encourage all applications to > make use of. > > For this coming release, we will not mandate use of the common dataset, but > we encourage projects to use it if they can. (We will likely be mandating > projects to use the common dataset in future releases) > > So our next question is "What dataset should we use?". > * The dataset needs to be reasonably timeless - (we don't want to ask > projects repackage new datasets every year) > * We want to cover a representative set of layers. > * We want the datasets to be able to be made to look "sexy". > * We want to keep the size of the datasets to a minimum. > * The data needs to be available with a suitable open licence. > > Unless someone suggests a better source, we will be using the data from: > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/ > > Which layers would be suitable for projects? > > I suggest: > > 1:50m Cultural layer > Admin (countries & states) polygons > Populated places - points > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/ > 21 Meg uncompressed (less if we trim) > > 1:50m River and Lake Centerlines - lines > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-physical-vectors/ > ~ 400K uncompressed > > 1:50m Natural Earth 1 with shaded relief and water, raster: > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-raster-data/50m-natural-earth-1/ > 171 Meg uncompressed > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source > http://www.lisasoft.com > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
