There used to be a service called geotorrent. It'd be nice if someone started that back up.
How much data are you trying to download? You can still find some of the DEMs as a file download without having to deal with the seamless site. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ron M <rm_post...@cheapcomplexdevices.com>wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Stephen Woodbridge (wood...@swoodbridge.com) wrote: > >> Thanks! that is exactly what I needed to know. I'm in the painful > >> process of downloading the NED data from there seamless download > >> application - I can not tell you how frustrating these stupid apps are. > >> Just give me a simple ftp site and wget would be so much easier for the > >> users. > > > > Sure would be nice of someone to put up the data set on an FTP (or, even > > better, easily wget'd HTTP) site once they've pulled it from the USGS > > site... :) > > Or at that size, perhaps bittorrent. > > > > Or, another potential place -- an Amazon Web Service Public Data Set: > http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ > "Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of > public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS > cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets > at no charge for the community" > > I find their pre-loaded PostGIS open-street-map and 2008 TIGER/LINE > data extremely convenient: > > http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=275 > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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