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		+	*[[Web Map Service]] ([[WMS]]), aka [[ISO 19128]]
	*[[LandVoyage]]		*[[LandVoyage]]
	*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdorje/Tracks		*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdorje/Tracks

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Text 2.1 Interesting stuff 2.2 Proprietary stuff (to reimplement!) 3 Stuff you can do 4 Stuff I have to do

Welcome

Hello. For now this is a wiki to discuss free geographical information available online. I'd like to eventually start a wiki to actually create and distribute free geographical information, but not yet.

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• types of stuff

Interesting stuff

• Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
  • http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm
• Web Map Service (WMS), aka ISO 19128
• LandVoyage
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdorje/Tracks
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dschwen/WikiMiniAtlas
• http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html
• NASA World Wind
  • http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Google_Earth_comparison
  • http://bullsworld.blogspot.com/ - This and that, mainly NASA World Wind news
  • Blue Marble at 1 kilometer resolution (and Blue Marble: Next Generation at 500 meter resolution)
  • Landsat 7
  • SRTM
  • NASA SVS
  • MODIS
  • GLOBE
• Geocoding
• reverse geocoding
• http://alteviltech.com/blog/
• http://nasaworldwind.blogspot.com/
• http://ccablog.blogspot.com/
• http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=27_58_15_N_82_27_6.72_W_type:city(326,519)
• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ - very small project right now, aiming to create open street maps
• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
• TIROS (of historical interest)
• How Much Do Satellites Cost? - $50-400 million

Proprietary stuff (to reimplement!)

• http://www.schwen.de/wiki/GMap (while GMap itself is GPL, the embedded maps, from Google Maps, are proprietary)
• http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ - text only, but very well presented information - a free version of this would be a great start (then worry about maps later)

Stuff you can do

• To increase the amount of space we have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the Link Quota Page to increase your uploads quota.
• Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:

1. Wikipedia list of wikis
2. WikiIndex
   

• Add the url for this wiki to the Categorized wiki list. Simply edit that page and put this wiki under the appropriate category.
• Add this wiki to the map of wikis
• Add a message to the Feedback Page if you see anything that could be improved.

Stuff I have to do

• On this page: image_logo_url put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki.