[Xastir-dev] Re: [aprssig] Re: Getting Tiger2000 data?

[Ken Koster]

On Thursday 29 August 2002 17:17, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ken Koster wrote:
...
> > Ok, I'm willing to host it on WETNET (http://wetnet.net) as long as we
> > don't end up outstaying our welcome at our current hosts.
>
> For the entire US?  Just WA?  Perhaps surrounding states as well?

The entire US is fine.  It's not disk storage that could be a problem, disks
are cheap and I already have a spare 40gig, more than enough for the whole
US.  If everyone decided they needed to download the whole US, that would
be a problem, we share the T3 with other colocated sites, but we're the
freebee so I don't want to impact the other users.  Lets worry about that 
later.  Get the archive built, see if we can get a couple of sites to mirror 
it, and see how it goes.

> > And if
> > someone wants to donate some time to help organize the files I would
> > appreciate it.
>
> I could help if we can agree on the "right" organization.
>
> It'd probably be good to state directories, then county directories
> below, with an extra "county" directory called ALL_COUNTIES:
>
>   wa/snohomish/rivers.zip
>   wa/snohomish/lakes.zip
>   wa/snohomish/roads.zip
>   wa/snohomish/designated_places.zip (2000)
>   wa/snohomish/county.zip (county2000 outline)
>   wa/snohomish/misc.zip
>   wa/snohomish/rail.zip
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/rivers.zip
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/lakes.zip
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/roads.zip
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/designated_places.zip (2000)
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/county.zip (county2000 outline)
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/misc.zip
>   wa/ALL_COUNTIES/rail.zip

As KD7NM pointed out in a seperate message to me the ALL_COUNTIES could
be soft links to save space.

>
> There are also:
>
>     landmark points
>     landmark polygons
>     line features: Hydrography (The one I called rivers?)
>     line features: Landmarks
>     line features: Non-visible
>     line features: Physical
>     key geographic locations
>
> and lots more stuff like school districts, urban areas (not as
> useful as you might think), congressional districts, voting
> districts, etc.

Yup, just which of these do we want, and if we don't put them them on our
site, how do we give our users the ability to add their own catagories?

Another question, xastir specific this time, if we modify the xastir map
chooser to allow the selection of tigermaps by layer, do we want it to
continue to do this alphabetically or should it understand something of
the directory structure?  And if so, how?  hard-coded? A config file?
Or should we have a structure for the archive, but then just use that to
populate a GIS aware database that xastir uses?

And how  do we want the tigermaps to integrate with other maps.  Tigermaps
are US only and while we could add shapefile maps for other countries we 
don't have them right now.  I want my xastir to display Tigermaps(shapefiles)
where available and other maps where they aren't.

Comments?

Ken,  N7IPB