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kacebe / AtlantGIS

Faked GIS-Datasets, simulating an island in the Atlantic for educational purposes in using GIS in archaeology
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Open kacebe opened 7 years ago

kacebe commented 7 years ago

As AtlantGIS is a collection of faked geodata the issue of providing proper metadata (esp. descriptive) is crucial. Several datasets relate to real world archetypes; others are identical information available in different formats. It would contradict the idea of AtlantGIS to enforce a common metadata policy. In fact, providing proper metadata with common FOSSGIS tools is not easy and too many metadata-models are available. This issue serves two objectives:

nevrome commented 7 years ago

The README mentions a narrative to contextualize the data: Is there a fictive research history of Atlantis? With a nice story of consecutive campaigns we could get even closer to a real world research project.