[Geoserver-users] Who has interesting datasets?

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1

Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We're working on a few new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we're wondering if anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for demos and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We're mostly going to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time and extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time _and_ height, like buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we'll promise to keep it private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:

Chris

2

What size of dataset are you looking for? (I would guess there would be an
upper limit, if you wanted to distribute it as a demo)

I don't have an exact dataset in mind, but if the intent is to show off KML
features, then it would be nice to have something that is international so
that it spans the globe (in addition to being temporal).

A good source of international data would be the United Nations Common
Database (UNCDB) at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp which has
country statistics reported by year.
We could select a few interesting attributes (examples.. births, deaths, ag
production, CO2 emissions, GDP, # of internet users) for a range of years
(maybe a decade) and use them to attribute some country boundary polygon
layer.

If this sounds interesting, vote for your favorite country statistics from
the list at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_list_series.asp

I'll give a vote for:
Series 30249
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC/MDG)
216 countries
1980-2003

- Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:

Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We're working on a few
new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we're wondering if
anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for demos
and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice
detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of
attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We're mostly going
to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with
links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time
elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time and
extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time _and_ height, like
buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we'll promise to keep it
private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:

Chris

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Oh that sounds great. Are you volunteering to put the data layer together in to a shapefile?

I'd vote for:

25720 Television receivers per thousand inhabitants 185 countries
1990-1997

If we get time and extrudes both in GeoServer we could do _really_ fun visualizations, with like energy consumption as the height, and air pollution as the color, and let people slide it over time...

Chris

Tyler Erickson wrote:

What size of dataset are you looking for? (I would guess there would be an
upper limit, if you wanted to distribute it as a demo)

I don't have an exact dataset in mind, but if the intent is to show off KML
features, then it would be nice to have something that is international so
that it spans the globe (in addition to being temporal).

A good source of international data would be the United Nations Common
Database (UNCDB) at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp which has
country statistics reported by year.
We could select a few interesting attributes (examples.. births, deaths, ag
production, CO2 emissions, GDP, # of internet users) for a range of years
(maybe a decade) and use them to attribute some country boundary polygon
layer.

If this sounds interesting, vote for your favorite country statistics from
the list at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_list_series.asp

I'll give a vote for:
Series 30249
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC/MDG)
216 countries
1980-2003

- Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:

Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We're working on a few new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we're wondering if anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for demos and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We're mostly going to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time and extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time _and_ height, like buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we'll promise to keep it private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:

Chris

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Sure, I will put the shapefile together.
I'll wait a bit longer to see if anyone else wants to vote for an
attribute....
- Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:

Oh that sounds great. Are you volunteering to put the data layer
together in to a shapefile?

I'd vote for:

25720 Television receivers per thousand inhabitants 185 countries
1990-1997

If we get time and extrudes both in GeoServer we could do _really_ fun
visualizations, with like energy consumption as the height, and air
pollution as the color, and let people slide it over time...

Chris

Tyler Erickson wrote:

What size of dataset are you looking for? (I would guess there would be
an
upper limit, if you wanted to distribute it as a demo)

I don't have an exact dataset in mind, but if the intent is to show off
KML
features, then it would be nice to have something that is international
so
that it spans the globe (in addition to being temporal).

A good source of international data would be the United Nations Common
Database (UNCDB) at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp which has
country statistics reported by year.
We could select a few interesting attributes (examples.. births, deaths,
ag
production, CO2 emissions, GDP, # of internet users) for a range of years
(maybe a decade) and use them to attribute some country boundary polygon
layer.

If this sounds interesting, vote for your favorite country statistics
from
the list at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_list_series.asp

I'll give a vote for:
Series 30249
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC/MDG)
216 countries
1980-2003

- Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:

Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We're working on a few
new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we're wondering if
anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for demos
and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice
detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of
attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We're mostly going
to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with
links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time
elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time and
extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time _and_ height, like
buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we'll promise to keep it
private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:

Chris

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There is tons of data for download, along with shape files at:

http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

I have access to lots of health related data as well that can be seen at

http://www.who.int/globalatlas/

If you are interested in any of the data sets (HIV, Child Mortality, etc) which span time, I can help with this.

Best regards,
Jason Pickering

On 7/25/07, Tyler Erickson <tyler.erickson@anonymised.com> wrote:

Sure, I will put the shapefile together.
I’ll wait a bit longer to see if anyone else wants to vote for an
attribute…

  • Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:

Oh that sounds great. Are you volunteering to put the data layer
together in to a shapefile?

I’d vote for:

25720 Television receivers per thousand inhabitants 185 countries
1990-1997

If we get time and extrudes both in GeoServer we could do really fun
visualizations, with like energy consumption as the height, and air
pollution as the color, and let people slide it over time…

Chris

Tyler Erickson wrote:

What size of dataset are you looking for? (I would guess there would be
an
upper limit, if you wanted to distribute it as a demo)

I don’t have an exact dataset in mind, but if the intent is to show off
KML
features, then it would be nice to have something that is international
so
that it spans the globe (in addition to being temporal).

A good source of international data would be the United Nations Common
Database (UNCDB) at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp which has
country statistics reported by year.
We could select a few interesting attributes (examples… births, deaths,
ag
production, CO2 emissions, GDP, # of internet users) for a range of years
(maybe a decade) and use them to attribute some country boundary polygon
layer.

If this sounds interesting, vote for your favorite country statistics
from
the list at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_list_series.asp

I’ll give a vote for:
Series 30249
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC/MDG)
216 countries
1980-2003

  • Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:

Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We’re working on a few
new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we’re wondering if
anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for demos
and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice
detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of
attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We’re mostly going
to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with
links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time
elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time and
extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time and height, like
buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we’ll promise to keep it
private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:

Chris

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Ok, here is my first crack at an temporal dataset. It looks interesting, but
I think it may be way too large...

The shapefile is based on the UN environment data (downloaded from the
website that Jason listed).

Time Range: 1990-2003 (annual statistics)
Attributes:
    Internet Users Per 100 People
    Mobile Phone Subscribers per 1000 People
    Carbon Dioxide Emissions - per Capita (UNFCCC-CDIAC)
    Carbon Dioxide Emissions - Total (UNFCCC-CDIAC)
No Data value: -999
Time column: RPT_YEAR (stored as an integer)

This ends up being quite a large shapefile (88MB uncompressed, 30MB zipped),
because the geometry is repeated for each of the 13 years. The 30MB zipped
shapefile is located at:
ftp://ftp.mtri.org/pub/GeoServer/countries_temporal.zip
ftp://ftp.mtri.org/pub/GeoServer/countries_temporal.zip

I'm not sure how useful it will be for demos, given it's size. To get it to
a reasonable size, we would need to limit the number of time periods,
simplify the geometry, or remove some of the countries.

- Tyler

jpickeri wrote:

There is tons of data for download, along with shape files at:

http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

I have access to lots of health related data as well that can be seen at

http://www.who.int/globalatlas/

If you are interested in any of the data sets (HIV, Child Mortality, etc)
which span time, I can help with this.

Best regards,
Jason Pickering

On 7/25/07, Tyler Erickson <tyler.erickson@anonymised.com> wrote:

Sure, I will put the shapefile together.
I'll wait a bit longer to see if anyone else wants to vote for an
attribute....
- Tyler

Chris Holmes wrote:
>
> Oh that sounds great. Are you volunteering to put the data layer
> together in to a shapefile?
>
> I'd vote for:
>
> 25720 Television receivers per thousand inhabitants 185 countries
> 1990-1997
>
> If we get time and extrudes both in GeoServer we could do _really_ fun
> visualizations, with like energy consumption as the height, and air
> pollution as the color, and let people slide it over time...
>
> Chris
>
> Tyler Erickson wrote:
>> What size of dataset are you looking for? (I would guess there would
be
>> an
>> upper limit, if you wanted to distribute it as a demo)
>>
>> I don't have an exact dataset in mind, but if the intent is to show
off
>> KML
>> features, then it would be nice to have something that is
international
>> so
>> that it spans the globe (in addition to being temporal).
>>
>> A good source of international data would be the United Nations Common
>> Database (UNCDB) at
>> http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp which has
>> country statistics reported by year.
>> We could select a few interesting attributes (examples.. births,
deaths,
>> ag
>> production, CO2 emissions, GDP, # of internet users) for a range of
years
>> (maybe a decade) and use them to attribute some country boundary
polygon
>> layer.
>>
>> If this sounds interesting, vote for your favorite country statistics
>> from
>> the list at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_list_series.asp
>>
>> I'll give a vote for:
>> Series 30249
>> Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2
(CDIAC/MDG)
>> 216 countries
>> 1980-2003
>>
>> - Tyler
>>
>>
>> Chris Holmes wrote:
>>> Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We're working on a
few
>>> new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we're wondering
if
>>> anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for
demos
>>> and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice
>>> detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of
>>> attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We're mostly
going
>>> to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with
>>> links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time
>>> elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time
and
>>> extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time _and_ height,
like
>>> buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we'll promise to keep
it
>>> private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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>>> fn:Chris Holmes
>>> n:Holmes;Chris
>>> org:The Open Planning Project
>>> adr:;;349 W. 12th Street, #3;New York;NY;10014;USA
>>> email;internet:cholmes@anonymised.com
>>> title:Managing Director, Strategic Development
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Attached is another sample dataset (zipped shapefile), that would potentially
useful for demonstrating the temporal aspects of KML. The data are from one
of our research sensors (ALWAS), which is a floating data logger with water
quality sensors and a GPS. More info about the sensor:
http://tinyurl.com/27yx3p The data were collected near the Bering Glacier
in Alaska, so the Google Earth visualizations are fairly scenic...

The shapefile contains time information in two columns. The MEAS_DATE
column is a date datatype, and contains the date of the measurement. The
MEAS_TIME column is a string datatype, and contains the measurement time in
an HH:MM:SS format. (At this point I haven't been able to get the KML time
templates to work on this dataset in GeoServer, so let me know if a
different time format is needed.)

For each record there are many physical attribute columns (i.e. water depth,
temperature, conductivity, pH, etc.) that could be displayed in KML as
height extrusions. The XML metadata give a short description of each of the
attributes.

- Tyler

http://www.nabble.com/file/p12053760/alwas_bering.zip alwas_bering.zip

Chris Holmes wrote:

Hey everyone, a request from the GeoServer team. We're working on a few
new features and hopefully lots of new tutorials, and we're wondering if
anyone has access to cool datasets that they could let us use for demos
and tutorials? Stuff that you can release, but with lots of nice
detail, since good data makes for nice demos. Hopefully with lots of
attributes we can play with to do even cooler stuff. We're mostly going
to be doing KML stuff, customizing the pop-up bubbles, so things with
links are extra good. And if you have cool datasets that have time
elements and height elements those will also spur us on to get time and
extrude KML support. And if anyone has one with time _and_ height, like
buildings going up over time, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for anyone who sends us data, we'll promise to keep it
private, um, I mean spread all over the web :wink:

Chris

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