On 18 Feb 2010, at 9:10 , Tyler wrote: > Isn't it 1.5 Tb or something? I agree torrenting would work, but that would > take quite a while to get to any reasonable amount of seeds. What about > Geocommons? Isn't that their thing? >
can't imagine it's that big. srtm data for US is in 30m resolution is ~ 15G in compressed form. maybe the full USGS dataset is in multiple formats or in an uncompressed format. For some regions they have higher accuracy available but that should still be in the 100G range > Also, what about using an S3 bucket with a CoralCDN redirect, so the only > bandwidth costs would be the initial seeding to the Coral network? > www.coralcdn.org no experience with it but sounds like an interesting option > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Apollinaris Schoell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2010, at 5:36 , Lars Ahlzen wrote: > > > Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > >> Anyone knows where to get NED data for large areas? The seamless > >> server is such a pain and it will take forever just for a single > >> state. or we could start a crowd source effort to download and share > >> them. > > > > They don't exactly advertise it, but USGS will actually take an external > > hard drive that you provide, fill it with NED data and ship it back to you. > > > > We're trying to find a place to host this massive data set, though, so > > hopefully downloading will get a lot easier soon. > > > > thats cool do you have the data already? What about providing it as a set of > torrent files? Torrent is the perfect protocol to distribute such a huge set > of data. btw how big is it? > > > > > - Lars > > > > -- > > Lars Ahlzen > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
