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AWS s3 (Simple Storage Service) is one of the simplest Amazon Web Service. It works just like a network drive. Amazon has granted many public institutions free S3 buckets. Smithsonian Institute (SI) is one of them. With its open access initiative, SI also shared a large amount of data on s3. Smithsonian Open Access on github AWS registry for Smithsonian The data largely contain metadata at SI, 3D models, and pictures. [Read More]

Install GDAL Tools The GDAL tools are installed from https://www.gisinternals.com/. Install the core with Python applications, which contain some useful raster tools like gdal2tile.py. Alternatively, it can be installed using OSGeo4W. However, OSGeo4W can interfere with PostgreSQL/PostGIS on GDAL for the setting. Therefore, it is not recommended to use OSGeo4W for GDAL. As QGIS is part of OSGeo, it comes with GDAL pre-installed. So, it is also good to use the GDAL within QGIS. [Read More]