ERDDAP: Diving into a Data Ocean
Data Lakes has become a popular term in the Big Data community. It’s used to refer to a large storage repository and processing engine. However there is now…
Tag: OpenData
Open Data in the UK
The Ordnance Survey is UK’s mapping agency and frequently releases free datasets. Their OpenData policy is quite progressive compared to Germany’s and they’ve recently published some fresh datasets…
geo.admin.ch: bringing Swiss geodata potential to life
A priorized project of eGovernment Switzerland Usage and exchange of geodata is fostered by geo.admin.ch in a significant way. The Federal geoportal is operated by the Federal Office…
DataSF or how to do open data right
In 2010 the City and County of San Francisco’s official open data portal was launched. To me it is the ultimate experience for publishing/consuming open data: based on…
Advanced access to free climate data for Germany of the Climate Data Center
Since July 1st 2014, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) eased restrictions for the usage of climate data and provides users with a big dataset of free climate data for…
short announcement: Berlin geodata downloadable…
I don’t know what’s wrong with the governmental insitutions in Germany/Berlin: They have this law, that all the geodata are somehow under an open license but to me…
Geoscience Australia – geodata collection via WMS, WFS and WCS
The Australian government now provides a bunch of commercial and free geodata on their Australia Geoscience-Portal. Like the well known U.S. data provider Earth-Explorer, you can do a product…
How to find geospatial data for Spain
In some countries, such as the USA and Spain, there is a very nice law that makes life easy for geoscientists. This law guarantees free access to a…