Re: [Geoserver-users] Who has interesting datasets?

[Tyler E. <tyl...@mt...>]

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 ;)
>>>
>>> Chris
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