Geodata Committee Ninth Meeting

Meeting Info
Chair: Jo Walsh IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org (or via Web based IRC client) Date: 2006-August-30 (at least in the Americas and Europe) Time: 1600 GMT / 1100 East Coast / 1700 Europe (fixed time)

Agenda

 * Report of current status of available systems at Telascience
 * Geodata processing at telascience.org was Markus' progress
 * SAC Service Status represents anything like reality?


 * How metadata collecting interface is holding up to peoples data hosting reqs.
 * Assessment of what data sets are available now
 * Assessment of what data sets people are anxious to get into redistribution


 * VMap0-clean - has it been possible to get any more clarity from ESRI about the extent of their claimed IP in the political boundary layer
 * ... in working on a cleaned-up distribution that can be re-annotated


 * Plans to connect more with FAO GeoNetwork espec. when that project enters OSGeo incubation