[Freegis-list] Free Gis CDROM

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:40:01PM +0000, Sajith VK wrote:
> > On ??????, 2004-01-09 at 11:33, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
[...]
> > > As Markus points out, we might choose a completely different,
> > > but interesting data set. It certainly makes a lot of sense
> > > to use data which is close to the region (at least from the continent).
> > > 
> > Hi, I am from India 
> 
> I know, that is why I mentioned the regional focus.
> Localising this GIS Cd would mean to have data sets which are from
> the region. In your case it would be from India.
> It would be a major success if we would have complete data sets
> from at least the continents. Always using old ones from the USA
> is getting a bit boring I guess. :)

The data sets aren't old - but let's try to create a data set for
India. I have to look, maybe I have already available a climate
data base for India or at least the conversion scripts to rebuild
it from the GLOBALSOD data base:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/globalsod

Markus