Difference between revisions of "Public Geospatial Data Project"

Revision as of 05:45, 16 March 2006

Mission

(the mission needs to be clearly defined)

promoting governmental geodata being public
licences for public geodata
collection of public geodata or data portal
promotion of public, open geospatial formats

Approach

The Public Geospatial Data Project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is currently in the "definition phase". That means that we're in the process of putting together information about the kinds of things we could do, which organizations might be relevant, how the project might be structured, etc. Since the entire OSGeo is new, we're really working out the process for starting a non-software based project as we go.

Likely scenario

Information gathering
Develop list of potential participants
Invite people/organizations to express interest
Discuss potential charter (is there an "official" OSGeo name for this?)
Present charter to OSGeo Board for approval (or do the members also get to vote on it?)
- Charter should probably have "Terms of Reference" - i.e. what the group will do
- Charter should probably have an initial list of participants/organizations (not all need to be members)
- Charter should name a Chair and a Vice Chair (or co-chairs?) (must proposed chair already be a member or can s/he become a member by virtue of being part of this?)
Assuming project is approved - Get to work!

Potential Members

If you add people/orgs to this list, please indicate whether you're adding yourself/your organization or whether you are "nominating" the person/organization as a potential member.

Individuals

Please add yourself

David Bitner (self)
Allan Doyle (self)
Florian Kindl (nominated)
Pericles S. Nacionales (self)
Markus Neteler (self)
Jo Walsh (nominated)
Helton Uchoa (self) - User:Uchoa

Organizations

EOGEO (self)
OpenStreetMap Project (potential)
GSDI Association (potential)

Events

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

Existing Work

Geo Data Licenses

Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects

OpenStreetMap Project
Free Earth Foundation
Canadian Base Data
Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent
Global Map - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
Geonames.org - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources

Geo Data Repository & Policy Research

University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data
MetroGIS Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort
MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information

Geo Data Policy Advocacy

Public Geodata Project (IRC: publicgeodata) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto

Open Access

There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
The Locus Forum - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."

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 * [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
 * [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
+* [http://indico.epfl.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1 FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]
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