Short summary, after brief discussion about if there was a plugin to pull SRTM (DEM) data for the canvas (which we never found), we turned to discussing the possibility of build a framework for public data downloading by canvas extent.
We want to avoid duplication of the same common core functionality, and make it easy to plug new data in, and for users to be able to find what they're looking for. Ideally to me this is just an improvement to CSW, WCS and WFS. However many such data sets don't exist under services, and are just file based downloads. This email is to gauge interest in co-developing such an option in QGIS. Ideas welcome and encouraged. Thanks, Alex -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] SRTM-plug-in? Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:25:16 -0800 From: Alex M <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]>, [email protected] On 11/18/2015 10:21 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 18/11/2015 19:44, Alex M ha scritto: >> On 11/18/2015 06:14 AM, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote: >>> Hi, >>> there once was a plug-in in the repository, that downloaded SRTM-DEM > >> Did the plugin do 30m or 90m SRTM? > > Hi all, > agreed, it would be good to have it back. BTW, there is a growing number > of plugins dowloading data (e.g. from NASA, from FAO, etc.). it would be > good to have a general framework where a single service could be plugged > in, instead of developing over and over very similar stuff. > Any interested dev? > All the best. > A framework for the common parts would be nice, or an easily clone-able basic plugin that just needs a specialized function to each service. Of course, this is kind of the point of CSW, WCS and WFS standards. And we really should encourage the use of standards. This idea is similar to the getData function of the Raster package in R: http://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/raster/functions/getData Which does include the 90m SRTM already processed (CGIAR version http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/) I'd be interested in moving this discussion to the developer list and participating. I'm involved with the management of the data for the above mentioned R function. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
