Hi Peter!
2010/9/21 Peter Körner <osm-lists(a)mazdermind.de>de>:
Am 21.09.2010 19:23, schrieb Andreas Trawoeger:
But it would be great if I could donate &
keep updating the 10GB of
pre-rendered Night Lights PNG tiles I already have to the Wikipedia
tile-toolserver setup.
We have a very similar setup with the hillshading tiles
[1]. They are about
492.62G in 126629282 files so far away from your 10G. If no one opposes we
could set up an rsync process to sync the changed tiles in regular
intervals.
The satellite data I'm working on is comparable low-res (150m/pixel)
and only updated once a year (if ever). Main reason for updating the
tiles is that I'm still experimenting with thing like PNG quantization
and compression options.
What could become interesting in near term is the European Global
Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) satellite project.
Which despite having the name security in it is supposed to have an
Open Data Policy [1].
European institutions tend to have a strange implementations of "Open
Data Policies", but continuous and free access to multi spectral
satellite data with 10m/pixel resolution could keep us pretty busy.
cu andreas
[1]
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/100630-officials-open-data-policy-gmes.html