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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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• types of stuff

Interesting stuff

• Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
  • http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm
• NASA World Wind
  • NASA World Wind image server [1]
• standards
• Geoserver [2]
• 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
• 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.