Hi Falk, Il 03/07/2017 20:03, Falk Huettmann ha scritto:
> my questions to you are: > -how can those data be served best to support QGIS, e.g. as a package or > plugin, > and is that needed and wanted ? I think they can be a very useful addition. Perhaps they could replace or be added to the good old Alaska sample dataset? > -what other data sources of that level exist and how to co-arrange ? > -how to make it dynamic so that other people can add and contribute + > update ? good question. I think GeoGit has been designed for it (mostly vector data, maybe), unsure about its current state. is anyone aware of a good general solution? > Another (species) data source is GBIF.org (an R package exist there but > a QGIS one would be a most excellent idea, e.g. to wrestle the entire > data set in one shot!). I remember a plugin directly accessing GBIF database. > Movebank is another one, but it's certainly not Open Access; too bad on > them. Yes, not a sound choiche IMHO. > (I am sure you have seen the Antarctic version of QGIS with data, run from > Norway). > > Funding remains a key question to get this done; my guess. > Perhaps the Academies of Sciences can take that on, serving the wider > public, > for a change ? hosting is not the main problem IMHO. maintenance is the big one. all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user