Permaculture Database

[Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Paul d'Aoust wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-02-04 at 21:28 -0700, Paul Cereghino wrote:
> > If you start looking at biodiversity patterns it gets a little  
> > more tangled.
> > Another level of mapping identifies 867 world ecoregions... I live in
> > NAO524 and I dont know a goddamn thing about Carpentaria Tropical
> > Savannah (AA0704)
> > http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html
>
> I really like this categorisation. It makes a lot of sense to me; I
> think that, if we do use site-specific stuff, this would be the map to
> use. If it doesn't have licensing issues.

This appears to be the WWF ecosystem map, which is available as an  
ESRI shapefile (a format used in GIS). This can be processed by  
MapServer (open source) to produce dynamic maps. If we wanted to go  
that route, there are a number of other GIS vector and surface layers  
that would be helpful to present to designers.

From here -> http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/g200eco.cfm :
This data is available for use for valid scientific, conservation,  
and educational purposes as long as proper citations are used. We ask  
that you credit the Global 200 Ecoregions data as follows:

Olson, D. M. and E. Dinerstein. The Global 200: Priority ecoregions  
for global conservation. (PDF file) Annals of the Missouri Botanical  
Garden 89:125-126

Cheers,
Bear