[Flightgear-devel] some terragear news

[Torsten D. <to...@t3...>]

Hi,

over the last couple of weeks, I finally succeeded to at least partly
process/regenerate the cs_* landcover data from Martins database. Recap:
This is the "best of breed" data set combining vmap0, corine and manual
edits of worldwide landcover. NLCD is not part of the dataset.

As Martin does not allow distribution of the raw postgis vector data, I ran
ogr-decode on all cs_* tables using this script:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/terragear/ci/master/tree/src/Prep/OGRDecode/process.sh
except
for the osm_* line feature tables. Using the terragear docker image based
on terragear/next, the script ran for some 680 CPU hours and I now have
approx. 100GB of clipped polygon data that we eventually can use to
recreate ws 2.x from.

I'd really love to make this processed data available online, which I
believe is in line with the restrictions Martin put on his database.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any free and public service to host that
amount of data and allow the bandwidth to handle it.

Theoretically, our sourceforge project and my dreamhost account offer
"unlimited" usage. However I have the gut feeling that we already push the
limits with our current use as terrasync mirrors and I would not want to
stress this any further.

-- 

Torsten