User:Candrsn

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===Carl Anderson===

[[File:OSGeo_compass300.png|thumb|right|100px|Carl Anderson]]

Location: Bradenton, FL, United States

Carl Anderson is a Geo-Spatial Solutions Architect. He's developed opensource solutions for Local, State and Federal Purposes.

;http://www.twitter.com/candrsn
;http://www.linkedin.com/in/https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-anderson-a0a2063/

;OSGeo Experience
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]: QGIS, PostGIS, GDAL, ELGIS, MapServer, Spatialite, Deegree, GeoNetwork, GeoNode, Geos, MapGuide-Open-Source

;Local Chapter
[[Southeast US| Southeast OSGEO Chapter]]

;Description of OSGeo Experience:
*Advocate of the OSGEO Live Suite

;Contact:
: Email: carl.anderson AT vadose DOT org
: Phone (work): 1-404-906-3470

;Spoken Language(s): English

;Profile last updated: 05 14 2018

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

OSGeoUS

2018-05-14T20:59:03Z

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For the latest information visit [http://osgeo.us OSGeo.US] online, or our [https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/osgeo-us/ page] on the OSGeo website.

== Mission ==

OSGeo.US will cultivate and support local OSGeo chapters and projects in the United States. OSGeo.US will also support activities and events that build awareness of the OSGeo and create opportunities to grow the OSGeo community.

==Goals==

* Chapter is in the process of forming, initial goal is to be recognized as an official local chapter
* Start to hold meetings
* Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
* Develop an OSGeoUS presence at conferences

==Meetings==

Please join us at foss4gna for our first f2f meeting!

==Activities==

OSGeo.US is supporting the [[FOSS4GNA_Code_Sprint_2018]], obtaining a venue for sprint participants.

==Email list==
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/us

==Membership==

[[user:rjhale1971|Randal Hale]]

[[user:Kurt_Menke|Kurt Menke]]

[[user:Micheletobias|Michele Tobias]]

[[user:kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]

[[user:gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]

[[user:jrosenthal|Josh Rosenthal]]

[[user:paylakatel|Kayla Patel]]

[[user:Chrismarx|Chris Marx]]

[[user:erikfriesen|Erik Friesen]]

[[user:candrsn|Carl Anderson]]

Geodata Discovery Working Group

2006-10-29T03:27:35Z

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This is a [[Working Group]] started by the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]].

''NOTICE'': There are two BOFs on this topic at [[OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006#BOFs|FOSS4G2006]] on ''Geodata'' and about ''Geodata Discovery and Metadata Models''.

While OSGeo can consider hosting sets of public geodata, (and for the purposes of offering maintained [[Geodata Packaging Working Group|packages]] of high-quality data for education and demonstration, it probably will), we can compile a set of best practises and references to good prior art for building and maintaining collections of data and metadata.

== Focus ==

* Metadata for collections of geographic information.
* Providing best practise and prototypes for geodata search facilities
* Help with providing input into the OSGeo repository/services at http://osgeo.telascience.org/
* Providing 'catalog'/discovery/search services as part of OSGeo activities in promoting access to public domain and open licensed bodies of data.

== Participants ==

* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:bitner|David Bitner]]
* [[User:Pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:virtualmemorys|Bob Wang]]
* [[User:Ocantan|Oscar Cantán]]
* [[User:Sfkeller|Stefan Keller]]
* [[User:candrsn|Carl Anderson]]
* ''please add yourself''

== Existing (Meta) Search Projects and Related Efforts ==

More on metadata models at [[Geodata_Metadata_Requirements]]

Search services:
* See [[Geodata_Metadata_Requirements#Discovery]]
* (Meta) Data Catalogues / Data Repositories
** [http://www.mapdex.org/search/ Mapdex] is "a global Index of 2,018 servers, serving 37,168 map services, containing over 400,000 GIS Layers, covering more than 4,000,000 columns!"
** [http://www.geotorrent.org/ GeoTorrent] hosts BitTorrents of shapefile/TIFF format data.
** [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/ GeoNetwork] "Find Interactive Maps, GIS datasets, Satellite Imagery and Related Applications"
** [http://www.dlese.org/libdev/dcs_overview.html DLESE Collection System] offers a metadata repository and editor and supports OAI-PMH as data provider and harvester
** [http://gis.hsr.ch/gmdb/ Geo Meta Data Base (GMDB)] - Metadata repository and editor based on ISO 19115/119 Metadata and Dublin Core with XML export and OAI-PMH data provider support (german only)
** GDI Portals (country specific): [http://www.geodata.gov US], [http://www.gogeo.ac.uk UK], [http://www.geoportal.bund.de D], [http://www.geoland.at/ A], [http://www.geocat.ch CH], [http://geodaten.llv.li/geoshop/public.html LI], [http://www.geoportail.fr/ F], ...
* (Meta) Search engines:
** [http://geometa.info/ geometa.info] - search engine for geospatial services, data and documents combining structured and unstructured data (currently german only)
** [http://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl%3A+getcapabilities Google search] using 'allinurl' parameter

Lists about data sources and services:
* Lists on web services:
** http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/ger/wms_serverlist.html simple WMS service URL list
** http://www.refractions.net/white_papers/ogcsurvey/ Automated OGC Survey on the Web (WMF, WFS, ...)
** http://geometa.info/search.jsp?query=type%3Awms WMS search engine
** http://exploreourpla.net/maps/
** [[Orthophotography]] Annotated list of Orthophotography WMS Services
* Lists on data services:
** http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ US data servers

== Public Datasets for Possible Mirroring or Distribution ==

=== Gazetteer Data ===
... basically placenames with coordinates ...

* [http://www.geonames.org/ Geonames.org] gazetteer (includes [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ NGA GNS Gazetteer])
* [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/BlueMarble-Placenames.zip?download WorldWind Placenames] (markusN can provide PERL to read this)

=== Vector data ===
* VMAP0 - 1:1Mio, very generalised vector data for many features, around 70 [http://www.terragear.org/docs/vmap0/coverage.html layers] (already at telascience) - see also [http://www.mapability.com/info/vmap0_index.html here] for docs
* [http://aprsworld.net/gisdata/world/ World map for APRS], 1:1.1mio
* [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html GSHHS] - world coastlines, different scales available
* TIGER/Line (USA) - street and addressing data for the US
* RNF (Canada) - street and addressing data for Canada
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] - data available through a [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST HTTP based XML interface]. They've also been getting requests for shapefile and GML output of their data.
* [http://www.maplibrary.org/stacks/Africa_lite.asp African geodata]

=== Raster data ===
* DEM
** [ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2 SRTM V2]
** [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html ETOPO2]
** [http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html TOPEX]: SRTM30 (with GTOPO30 data for high latitudes where SRTM data are not available)
** [http://ekman.csc.noaa.gov/TCM/ NOAA TCM] LIDAR / IfSAR
* Satellite Data
** Landsat ([http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ OnEarth mirror already at telascience])
** [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ Blue Marble] / [http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/stockli/bmng/ Blue Marble Next Generation] (mirror already at telascience)
** ASTER (from GLCF)
** MODIS (from NASA EDC)
** USGS Urban Orthos (URL?)
* Maps derived from Satellite Data
** Nested Imagery Layer (Best of -- resolution -- with seamless zoom through multiple levels)
** [http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/landcover/ AVHRR Landuse Map] from GLCF
** [http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural/ natural earth]
** [http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/projects/lights.html City lights]
** [http://www.worldwildlife.org/freshwater/hydrosheds.cfm HydroSHEDS] - Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales
** [http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/ UNOSAT imagery] http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp

== Wishlist for Public Datasets ==

* Orthophotos
** Possible sources:
** http://www.fgdl.org/download/index.html
** http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

== Search Protocols ==

* GIS specific:
** OGC's CSW 2.0 (work in progress...)
*** [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/29 OpenGIS Catalogue Services - ebRIM (ISO/TS 15000-3) profile of CSW]
*** (ISO/OGC's "ISO19115/ISO19119 Application Profile for CSW 2.0")
*** See a comparison between [http://www.gis.hsr.ch/wiki/OAI-PMH CSW and OAI-PMH]
** OGC's WFS (profile) serving (profiled) ISO 19115/19119 metadata format...?
** 'Lean and mean' proposals on project level...
*** [[Simple Catalog Interface]]
* Related search protocols - possibly to be profiled or specialized by geoinformation requirements:
** [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0] (OAI-PMH)
** [http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/ Search/Retrieve via URL] (SRU/SRW)
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch OpenSearch] proposal from A9
** [http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/document.html Z39.50 ANSI/NISO standard protocol]
** [http://www.ebxml.org/ ebXML]/ebRIM Messaging Service 2.0

== Hosting Plan ==

(placeholder for an initial hosting plan sketch)

== See Also ==

* [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]]
* [[WMS Tile Caching]] proposal
* [[Geodata processing at telascience.org]]

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