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User:Mikel

2017-09-09T01:43:45Z

Wiki-Mikel: Created page with "{{OSGeo Member |Name=Mikel Maron |JobTitle=Community Team Lead |Company=Mapbox |Address=1509 16th St NW |Country=USA |State=DC |City=Washington |Coordinate=38.8938,-77.0146 |L..."

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|Website=http://groundtruth.in/
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|Info=Mikel leads the Community Team, building diverse collaborations centered on amazing mapping tools and open data, to make positive change on complex, global problems.

As Presidential Innovation Fellow at the US State Department Mikel drove OpenStreetMap adoption across federal agencies. He is co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, co-founder of Map Kibera and GroundTruth Initiative and Board member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. He holds a master’s degree in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from the University of Sussex, and bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz.
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[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

2006-03-22T15:41:39Z

Wiki-Mikel:

''This project was recently approved as [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]].''

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A collection of geospatial datasets shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== 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]]
* Aaron Racicot (self) - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
* Daniel Brookshier (self)
* Schuyler Erle (self)
* Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
* Steve Coast (nominated)
* Mikel Maron (self)

=== Organizations ===
* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO] (self)
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project] (potential)
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association] (potential)

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

* [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://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

== Existing Work ==

=== Geo Data Licenses ===
* [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL Public Geodata License]
* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl Group PGL-Canada]
* [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons]

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://metrogis.org MetroGIS] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php 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.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ 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."

== Further Reading ==

* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. <br> [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons