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=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy === | === Geo Data Policy Advocacy === | ||
Revision as of 14:10, 7 March 2006
Introduction
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)
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.
- Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand
- Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA
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
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
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
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
Further Reading
- "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU.
PDF with layout | HTML without layout - Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
- Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons