Hello again, sharing ideas really can be fun sometimes. The general data I come across, every once in a while is like this:
ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/bmng_arcview/ and here too: ftp://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble/bmng/topography/ or even these: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO1/data/ice_surface/cell_registered/georeferenced_tiff/ These are generally available but what I would like to get my hands on are the landsat 7 swaths that are also freely available but are very hard to come by in download terms. Thanks again Carlos On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:36 PM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore <shor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A semi-minor point, re " ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data. >> ... ": Not axactly. The major TOU restriction is that their images may be >> used *only* with their API. > > Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in detail because I haven't > run into a situation where I would violate them. But, yes, one should > do their own due diligence on what is allowed and what is not. > > Anyway, the original thread is on how to make maps and data available > without Internet access. I hope the OP now has enough information to > know this is possible and relatively not-that-difficult. > >> >> OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API >> code. >> >> AS >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > > > -- > Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org > Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org > Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org > Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor > Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science > ======================================================================= > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss