On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:16:53PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Richard Weait <[email protected]> writes: > > > Agenda > > ===== > > 1. discover current hosting and hardware details. > > 2. establish future hosting and hardware requirements and wish list. > > ... > > n. meet in person, raise toasts. > > We should heed crschmidt's message. The amount of data is vast. > Besides a registry of where data is, a federated approach could include > having parts of the imagery hosted in various places. I could see a few > people in mass getting together to host massgis orthophotos, and other > regions doing that too. Using the OSM model, the goal would be to have > the overall structure and indices, and also available tools to enable > others to host parts of the entire dataset with minimal effort.
Note that MassGIS *already* hosts their own orthos via a GeoServer WMS. Other state agencies may as well -- and I feel that a federated approach where people work with state agencies to publish their data via WMS or other means is much more likely to be effective in the long term than a centralized, 'one big st of tiles' approach -- not to mention that it's a task that more people can participate in working towards. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
