David wrote: > I intend to package some shapefiles available from NaturalEarth [0] (they > mostly are public domain) and from OpenStreetMap (which are under CC-BY-SA, > atm), which might come handy both as package Recommends, and as stand-alone > shapefiles (for use with things like qgis and grass, or even proprietary > applications one might use)
wrt Natural Earth, see the OSGeo LiveDVD install script: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/load_gisdata.sh as a low priority we've wanted to put most of what we install into .debs so would benefit from this packaging effort. wrt OSM, which layers exactly? I ask because there are longstanding wishes to merge or settle on the two main coastline formats used by the gmt, opencpn, xtide, and a few other packages. check the archives of this list for more. Tony: > What would be nice about data.debian.org (or similar) would be that the > data files could be volatile - i.e. not tied to a specific release > throughout the release cycle. I'm not entirely convinced that is a wise idea. fwiw existing DebianGIS webspace exists: http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/ but AFAIK only the tarballs/ dir is used right now, the root redirects to our wiki page. see also the gmt-coast-low package which installs a script to download a hi-res coastline from the internet. (which I would propose to just package as gmt-coast-full or so these days as disk space is cheap and the GSHHS dataset size has remained more or less static) regards, Hamish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
