-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 11/06/10 03:03, Cameron Shorter escribió: > 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 > >
The gvSIG sample project uses uDig and OpenJUMP sample data :-) With more time I would like to add also PostGIS and any OGC service is running on the LiveDVD... but first I have to got gvSIG installed! Note that the Cartography Institute of Catalonia will free a sample dataset, it would be great to have it at the LiveDVD if it's not too much disk space. Anyway, we don't know when it will be ready so I wouldn't count with it for this version. Best - -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://es.osgeo.org http://jorgesanz.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMEd3CAAoJEAOYD75lvHdBR0sH/jR/kSlTH+3UFGlgU05DzRhg p7dTW6Y5m8F4zaT8ssFJYlAkH7tzPPiKxAARkLu2SPllrlR+1NZC/SYbNqlyxW/n kizt9LffIg4tmkPRRQ4Q6Ji2/AVwlInJ4C3aKBVho/jSoNfGjCMW2nI+Fp4EAxbB xvSOBULb6whO/tEurYQuFFb5wbxcxgz3pjS3ZinpA9TJQ40QAc8JiOFJp1iWrlkS hEQ6JFAQljkmVXlorEZXelpdOnJSg6rkSnDUGutYlqU8ZCPSmiqPeSQoYkCPaccQ zIB4USGfqT9KRdiQ8W8Oczn6i1BKPWaCrAXYnEwndqa1Cr9WayQ3/i5tfbMZMC4= =BoD5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
