On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Christopher Schmidt<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
A good starting point could be the high res imagery that USGS has collected for it's map viewer (http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm) - if you click the legend for a particular layer you get a link to a WMS capabilities file for the area. This seams like a good way to deal with hosting and storage problems (for the US at least). Ian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
