I have downloaded many TB from USDA and other sites via FTP in past couple of years. Primarily from
http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ main idea was to avoid sending disks around. What I do is use Amazon EC2 instances for the ftp sessions, then store on S3. If you can get someone to store it long-term for you. It's easy for them to pull them from S3, after which you can delete them. Because EC2 is on-demand you can run multiple servers in parallel to download from the gateway. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote: >> So, basically, I could get the TIFF files from the USGS, cut them up >> into tiles myself, upload the tiles archive.org, and then I could use >> "tms:http://www.archive.org/blahblahblah"; in JOSM? > > By the way, another possibility, if it's too much for you to cut the > tiles up yourself, would be to upload the tiff files and we can do it > in a more distributed fashion. > > One thing you haven't mentioned is whether or not you have a way to > upload the files. If not it might be better to coordinate with > someone who has access to a fast upload pipe (alternatively maybe a > local university could let you borrow access for a day). If you're > going to bother sending a hard drive to USGS, might as well fill it up > with as much data as will fit :). > > Let us know your progress and what the results are when you finish. > This is something I've been meaning to do myself with the USGS imagery > for my county, but I haven't gotten around to it in the month or two > since I discovered that archive.org was willing to host this sort of > thing. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@host134.hostmonster.com > http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@host134.hostmonster.com http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
