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Revision as of 11:39, 22 October 2006
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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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Interesting stuff
- Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
- 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)
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:
- 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.
