Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding Data Sets
Hi Bruce, thanks for the tip! Erik On Jan 23, 2008 8:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik A place to start may be the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) registry: http://registry.gsdi.org/browse.php?order=title Bruce Bannerman Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24/01/2008 08:22:38 AM: A friend of mine is building a website and wants to add a map of India. He asked me today where he could find some good map data on India and I had to reply that I have no clue. I know that this list is not the appropriate venue for this sort of question, but I am hoping that maybe someone on this list would know and could point me in the right direction? Cholmes sort of unconvincingly suggested [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone else have a thought? Thanks, Erik ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Notice: This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check for and remove viruses. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. You are not authorised to use, communicate or rely on the information contained in this email. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding Data Sets
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:22:38PM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote: A friend of mine is building a website and wants to add a map of India. He asked me today where he could find some good map data on India and I had to reply that I have no clue. You could try the freemap.in list - http://lists.freemap.in/mailman/listinfo/freemap - this is more a source of high-resolution data for particular cities than an india-wide effort. e.g. http://mumbai.freemap.in/ There's also an OSGeo-India local chapter, and i bet some overlap between these lists. http://mappinghacks.com/2005/08/22/open-geodata-policy-shift-in-india/ is an old blog entry with a bunch of India-policy links, but not data ;P I'm sure others will have more concrete suggestions. and could point me in the right direction? Cholmes sort of unconvincingly suggested [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone else have a thought? Well, it's interesting to hear about use cases there. And the committee has a remit to run a public geodata registry / repository; so we ideally *should* be able to offer this kind of answer. cheers, jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding Data Sets
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:41:53PM -0500, Chris Holmes wrote: committee has a remit to run a public geodata registry / repository; so we ideally *should* be able to offer this kind of answer. Yeah, my thought was that ideally that list would have a bunch of people who are really good at finding GIS data, and when someone asks a question like that if it's not already in the repository they would have good leads on how to hunt it down, and then be able to easily add it to the repository. But I realize that's not how it's set up now, which was why my answer was unconvincing. Recently when i run across unusual sets of particularly boundary and other vector data, I've been noting them down in the CKAN index - http:/www.ckan.net/ - at least this provides a way of publically noting name, url, keywords, that is guaranteed to stay around awhile. It has no spatial properties or query but is a place to start. http://www.ckan.net/tag/read/geodata I *have* been working on a CKAN-inspired spatial metadata/search project for a little while and would love to test out an open source release on OSGeo's systems but i don't want to talk about it too much yet Of course there's GeoNetwork, OSGeo's own metadata catalog system, I see they have a new release candidate due out very soon. It raises the bar somewhat, offering support for OGC and ISO standards which may be overkill for simple web mapping use cases. The more the merrier though, and there are plenty of systems resources to run all this stuff on, what's missing is peoples' time to setup and contribute to a repository effort that'll make future questions easier to answer without repeating ourselves :) cheers, jo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding Data Sets
Erik A place to start may be the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) registry: http://registry.gsdi.org/browse.php?order=title Bruce Bannerman Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24/01/2008 08:22:38 AM: A friend of mine is building a website and wants to add a map of India. He asked me today where he could find some good map data on India and I had to reply that I have no clue. I know that this list is not the appropriate venue for this sort of question, but I am hoping that maybe someone on this list would know and could point me in the right direction? Cholmes sort of unconvincingly suggested [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone else have a thought? Thanks, Erik ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Notice: This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright.No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check for and remove viruses. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. You are not authorised to use, communicate or rely on the information contained in this email. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
