[wellylug] JPL OnEarth GeoTIFF Global Landsat7 Mosaic

Jo 'Mangee' Booth thegeek at mangee.net.nz
Tue Nov 1 08:34:05 NZDT 2005


On 1/11/2005, at 08:10 , Brent Wood wrote:

>
>
> --- Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:07 +1300, Brent Wood wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone playing with the LINZ vector data might also be interested  
>>> in this.
>>>
>>> High res global satellite imagery just released from JPL. Total  
>>> dataset
>>>
>> only 1.3Tb :-)
>>
>>
>> Come on Brent, we all know that this GIS stuff you do is simply an
>> excuse to give your wife, so that she allows you to buy big expensive
>> hard drives to build an array. ;-))
>>
>
> That's only 3x 500Gb drives. Plus some sort of backup. Trivial :-)
>
> 10Gb/month datacap = 130 months or about 11 years, without any  
> iso's or other
> data. Sigh.... I might see about the NZ region though. Couldn't be  
> much more
> than a few Gb.
>
>
> Spotcha....
>

/me wonders if a Cafenet GO24 cafenet pass or two.. and a external  
drive or three for his laptop could do it.

Is that excessive Jeremy? Could Citylink handle?

-Jo.
[no, 17G/mo on dial-up is not excessive - neither is 2 x that.]




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