Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gvsig_english] New site demonstrating the use of Free & Open Source Software

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Cropper
Helena, Thanks for the comments. I have included some feedback regarding particular points below. On 30/04/11 11:53, Helena Mitasova wrote: I have prepared this data set because I thought that it would be useful to have a set of simple data sets for different regions with standardized name

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gvsig_english] New site demonstrating the use of Free & Open Source Software

2011-04-29 Thread Helena Mitasova
Just to add to the discussion: For introductory material a simpler, basic data set may be more useful than the rather complex nc_spm_08, for example, here is one in GRASS format (47MB) http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_basic_spm.tar.gz I have prepared this data set because I t

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gvsig_english] New site demonstrating the use of Free & Open Source Software

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Cropper
On 30/04/11 08:47, Hamish wrote: 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 thegeodata@lists.osgeo mailing list. GRAS

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gvsig_english] New site demonstrating the use of Free & Open Source Software

2011-04-29 Thread Hamish
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 da