Jody wrote: > > the natural earth dataset in order to be above board. Simon wrote: > This is good but very few people actually do work at > that scale. I hope that now we have some data at a finer > resolution we will see some other tutorials demonstrating > techniques typically done on a day to day basis.
you're in luck, for some years the North Carolina dataset has been collected and made available by and for OSGeo projects exactly for this purpose. I believe the main contact/coordination for that is Helena and Markus via the geodata@lists.osgeo mailing list. GRASS already uses the grass-ified version in its tutorials and ships+uses that on the OSGeo Live DVD, see http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php Creative Commons licensed. * List of map layers: http://www.grassbook.org/grasslocations/nc_spm_08_contents.html * Vector maps in SHAPE format (56MB) http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_shape.tar.gz * Raster maps in GeoTIFF format (48MB) http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_rast_geotiff.tar.gz * Raster maps in ArcGrid format (47MB) http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_rast_arcgrid.tar.gz * Sample vector maps in KML format (2MB) http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_kml.tar.gz ... and more ... * Original data sources in their native format: http://www.grassbook.org/ncexternal/index.html We're running out of things to chuck overboard & space is tight, but I'm confident we can find 106mb on the live dvd for that. regards, Hamish _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
