Create an LCP download service

[ksshannon]

The EROS download service is painfully slow. With a little work, I think we can create our own, and host it. I don't think the traffic will be terrible, so a small server will do. We can fall back on the EROS service on failure. We'd have to get the data shipped to us and loaded some how. That might be the biggest head ache.

This can be done substantially easier if GDAL adds write/update/create support for the LCP driver, which I will investigate.

[nwagenbrenner]

I think I have the data. I think I got it from Don a while back. I'll check and report back. What are you thinking for the server? We could use our weather.firelab.org server. Or yours. Or something else. Whatever's best.

[ksshannon]

How big is the dataset? Is it easy to get it onto your server? I have upload limits on mine right now.

[nwagenbrenner]

I'll have to double check what data I actually got from Don and the size, but it shouldn't be an issue to put it on our server. weather.firelab.org is an instance in an OpenStack setup Bryce is running. I'll check on this stuff tomorrow.

[nwagenbrenner]

I have the CONUS data. I'll have to download AK and HI. Zipped up, the CONUS data is around 15 GB.

[fspataro-zz]

This could be set up on the WindNinjaMobile server ie. it could become the WindNinjaServer to support both Mobile and Desktop

[nwagenbrenner]

Yeah, that's a good idea. I guess the only concern is that we don't know how long the AWS server will be around. But if it goes away we'll have to move WindNinja Mobile (probably to our OpenStack server) anyway, so we could migrate everything at that time. Makes sense to use the same data server for mobile and desktop WindNinja. @ksshannon @jforthofer?

[jforthofer]

Makes a lot of sense to me. It will be on the AWS server anyway after the next changes.

[nwagenbrenner]

Related issue firelab/windninja-mobile#113

[ksshannon]

/cc @wmjolly

[nwagenbrenner]

We have a source now, see #459.