[OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello OSGEO enthusiasts I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do georeference tagging and mapping. When in the field, there is no

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:58 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello OSGEO enthusiasts I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Andy Turner
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps Hello OSGEO enthusiasts I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do georeference tagging and mapping

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters there are in the repository. Thanks On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters there are in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote: Yes that, and how you obtain the GMaps terrain without the internet. I don't. It is impossible to do that. You can't cache those as that would violate Google TOS even if you figured out how to do that. I just live without

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Ian Turton
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters there are in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello Ian and Kishor, It's strange you refer to google's TOS, which kinda reminds me of microsofts agreements on the stickers of original software, you have to buy but is never yours. To run around with the data in your cache isn't illegal? Anyways, I was wondering about other kinds of data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, carlos sousa springal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ian and Kishor, It's strange you refer to google's TOS, which kinda reminds me of microsofts agreements on the stickers of original software, you have to buy but is never yours. Nothing strange about it. It has

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Arnie Shore
A semi-minor point, re ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data. ... : Not axactly. The major TOU restriction is that their images may be used *only* with their API. OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API code. AS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore shor...@gmail.com wrote: A semi-minor point, re ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data. ... :  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may be used *only* with their API. Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Batty
The terms of service prohibit offline caching of Google Maps tiles. This is one major advantage of OpenStreetMap, which does permit you to do this. The terms are at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html Relevant items are: You must not ... 10.3 pre-fetch, cache, or store any Content,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello again, sharing ideas really can be fun sometimes. The general data I come across, every once in a while is like this: ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/bmng_arcview/ and here too: ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/topography/ or even these:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Hello again, Don't forget that i'm looking at this from the educational point of view. In the general royalty department, lets not forget the open source premises, that i'm gonna do a job for a determine customer, and the data i'm gonna generate will be, in the ultimate instance be shown, on a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Peterson
These are generally available but what I would like to get my hands on are the landsat 7 swaths that are also freely available but are very hard to come by in download terms. My sense is that there are quite a lot of Landsat 7 data available for free download. Scenes, though, not swaths.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

2010-11-09 Thread carlos sousa
Thanks a million Marc! Glovis is a treasure box ... i'm gonna role up them sleeves to put the images in my geoserver box. I'll post the result here! Thanks Carlos On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Marc Peterson marc.peter...@gmx.net wrote: These are generally available but what I would like to