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
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
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
Cameron,
On 30/04/11 08:20, Cameron Shorter wrote:
On the point of datasets, I'm open to incorporating a fine grained
dataset on OSGeo-Live, if it is going to be valuable to a number of
projects, and is suitably compact to fit on the OSGeo-Live DVD.
That's the communities choice.
My stance is
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
Simon, I'm also watching your progress with interest, and hope that we
can align your work and the OSGeo-Live material.
On the point of datasets, I'm open to incorporating a fine grained
dataset on OSGeo-Live, if it is going to be valuable to a number of
projects, and is suitably compact to fi
On 28/04/11 11:28, Jody Garnett wrote:
You should find that the committees mentioned are aware of these issues. In
particular the osgeo live project is standardising on the use of the natural
earth dataset in order to be above board.
This is good but very few people actually do work at that sca
>
> I have visited a lot of tutorial sites and left just as perplexed about how
> to get the program to work as I was when I started.
>
Indeed :-)
I am happy to include any tutorials as long as they have the appropriate
> licenses for all content used. A lot of the OSGeo tutorials have dubious
>
