We actually had shortlisted the requirement for a DEM as part of the demo dataset; so it may not be too late (it is hard to demo raster symbolization for example without a DEM).
The mandate for http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ is about making pretty pictures with high quality data; so they really do not provide a DEM (http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-raster-data/) Jody On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Johan Van de Wauw <[email protected]> wrote: > In that case maybe some raster data should be added to the mix: the > only raster which is available now is an already rendered image, which > is not very useful if you want to show some raster processing > capabilities. > > Perhaps too late for this edition, but later the global elevation > could be added. This and some other global raster datasets can be > downloaded from this site (we should check license etc.. though) > http://www.worldclim.org/current > > Anyway for the time being I've kept my example using our own dataset. > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Cameron Shorter > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm encouraging projects to make use of the naturalearth dataset for demos, >> as these datasets are global, and hence quickstarts will not need to be >> rewritten every year. >> >> You can see which datasets are available by looking at the >> bin/install_gisdata.sh script. >> >> On 27/07/10 19:34, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I was expecting to find some more demo data from the region around >>> Barcelona (especially the SRTM), and to use that one for the >>> quickstart guide for saga gis. >>> >>> Are there still plans to add such files, or should/can I add my own >>> demo file (in the install script?) >>> >>> (It's just a file of halve a megabyte, so size shouldn't be an issue) >>> >>> Johan >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Live-demo mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo >>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >>> >> >> >> -- >> Cameron Shorter >> Geospatial Director >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
