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