Annual Report Geodata 2007

= Public Geospatial Data Committee =
 * Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
 * Contact name: David Bitner

Key Accomplishments

 * Presentations and BOF at FOSS4G2007
 * Support of Open Street Map, Open Aerial Map, and the Flight Gear Scenery Project
 * Support of pulling together imagery during San Diego fires
 * First OSGeo Educational data set available

Areas for Improvement

 * Clear mission and direction that make it clear to members and outsiders who we are and what we do
 * Work with others with similar goals so as not to reinvent the wheel
 * Partner with those who need support of our resources
 * Work more closely with Education Committee and education datasets
 * Define clear areas where volunteers can be engaged

Opportunities to Help

 * Strategic Planning -- without clear direction, it is hard to know where we can put peoples efforts to work
 * Cataloguing work - both on software setup side (GeoNetwork) and collecting metadata for public data sets
 * Open Geodata Licensing success stories - writing about how your organisation or project has moved to an open licensing approach, sharing decisions with others

Outlook for 2008

 * Revised Mission
 * Clear Directions
 * Well defined areas where volunteers can get engaged
 * A "GeoPortal" to data running on OSGeo systems