Category Archives: filesharing

Fancy Free File Formats For Hamburg’s Open Geodata

While this is about data of the city of Hamburg, Germany, I decided to post in English as GeoPackage Propaganda should be accessible. ;)

I am casually working on converting open geodata released via the Transparenzportal Hamburg to more usable GeoPackages, GeoTIFFs and similar formats with free and open-source tools like GDAL and GMT where possible. This includes things like orthophotos, ALKIS, addresses, DEM, districts etc. You can get a list of most available source data here but there are some datasets “hidden” in other categories as well. The data is usually released in GML or as gridded files (e.g. JPEG or XYZ tiles/files). While this is pretty much perfect as source formats, working with them is cumbersome. My goal is to make this data more accessible for anyone in tools like QGIS.

For now you can find the 20cm orthophotos for 2013-2015 and the 1m DEM in https://www.datenatlas.de/geodata/public/hamburg/. Mind the licenses, see the readme file for a bit of info. More to come, I want to plan the pipeline a bit better first though. There should be a full script & log from source to GeoPackage for each file.

I will also provide mirrors of the source files. If you want to collaborate, please contact me. Apart from Hamburg I will also add free/open datasets for the whole of Germany, things related to (nearby) bathymetry and some global ones. If you want Shapefiles, ECW, MrSID or similar, you can pay me for converting.

“Commandline File Hosts”

These are the “terminal to URL” file hosts I know. Please tell me about others. The speed tests are not scientific at all, my servers might be uncapable of better speeds because of saturation or bad routing.

https://transfer.sh/

curl --upload-file "01_Name_Game_(Intro).mp3" https://transfer.sh/

Maximum Filesize: 5 Gigabytes
Expiration after: 2 weeks
Uses HTTPS!
Serves error 500 for non-existing files. Does not serve direct downloads anymore. Bleh.
Download URLs are modeled after your original filename (“special” characters are replaced): https://transfer.sh/SGNl/01-name-game-intro.mp3
1GB.zip upload: ~30-110 Megabit/s
1GB.zip download: ~240 Megabit/s

http://curl.io/

curl -F "file=@01_Name_Game_(Intro).mp3" http://curl.io/send/abcd1234

Maximum Filesize: 20 Gigabytes
Expiration after: 4 hours
Requires you to visit their website to get a key (URL) assigned.
Download URLs are random and but it serves original filename with content-disposition: http://curl.io/get/kegcxfza/85866a9bcfaf6f8eccab136238c07f659d580b25
1GB.zip upload: ~60-75 Megabit/s
1GB.zip download: 100 Megabit/s

http://chunk.io

curl --upload-file 01_Name_Game_\(Intro\).mp3 chunk.io

Maximum Filesize: 50 Megabytes
Expiration after: 6 months
They might increase filesize and expiration if there is enough interest, as of now you can not “sign-up” for those.
Download URLs are unreadable, filenames are lost: http://chunk.io/f/afb01d527ceb4d03b9bf9e62bb32263e
1GB.zip upload: ~8 Megabit/s (until it errored :) )

http://purrrl.link/
Requires sign-up.