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See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas. | See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas. | ||
| − | === People interested in participating === | + | === People interested in participating === |
| − | * David Bitner | + | *'''Awase Khirni Syed''' - awasekhirni at gmail.com |
| − | * Allan Doyle | + | *David Bitner |
| − | * Florian Kindl | + | *Allan Doyle |
| − | * Pericles S. Nacionales | + | *Florian Kindl |
| − | * Markus Neteler | + | *Pericles S. Nacionales |
| − | * [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]] | + | *Markus Neteler |
| − | * [[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]] | + | *[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]] |
| − | * Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org | + | *[[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]] |
| − | * Daniel Brookshier | + | *Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org |
| − | * Schuyler Erle | + | *Daniel Brookshier |
| − | * Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions) | + | *Schuyler Erle |
| − | * Steve Coast | + | *Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions) |
| − | * Mikel Maron | + | *Steve Coast |
| − | * Alessandro Frigeri | + | *Mikel Maron |
| − | * David Blasby | + | *Alessandro Frigeri |
| − | * [[User: | + | *David Blasby |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Kevinyam|Kevin Yam]] |
| − | * [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]] | + | *[[User:Putler|Dan Putler]] |
| − | * Ned Horning | + | *[[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]] |
| − | * [[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]] | + | *Ned Horning |
| − | * Colin Gowens | + | *[[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *Colin Gowens |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]] |
| − | * [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]] | + | *[[User:Fbiasi|Frank Biasi]] |
| − | * Stefan Keller | + | *[[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]] |
| − | * [[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]] | + | *Stefan Keller |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]] |
| − | * [[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]] | + | *[[User:Kablukiw|Kevin Ward]] |
| − | * Nick Black | + | *[[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]] |
| − | * [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] | + | *Nick Black |
| − | * [[User:Mspott|Martin Spott]] | + | *[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] |
| − | * David Jonglez | + | *[[User:Mspott|Martin Spott]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *David Jonglez |
| − | * [[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]] | + | *[[User:Dandye|Daniel Dye]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]] |
| − | * Artem Pavlenko | + | *[[User:Rduivenvoorde|Richard Duivenvoorde]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *Artem Pavlenko |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]] |
| − | * [[User: | + | *[[User:Chorner|Cory Horner]] |
| − | * [[User:Fsc7|Felipe Costa]] | + | *[[User:Vdb|François Van Der Biest]] |
| − | * Brent Wood | + | *[[User:Fsc7|Felipe Costa]] |
| − | * [http://comchatter.com Ivan Gan] | + | *Brent Wood |
| − | * [[User:Gignacnic|Nicolas Gignac]] | + | *[http://comchatter.com Ivan Gan] |
| − | * [[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]] | + | *[[User:Gignacnic|Nicolas Gignac]] |
| − | * Hans-Jörg Stark | + | *[[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]] |
| − | * Paul Brous | + | *Hans-Jörg Stark |
| − | * [[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]] | + | *Paul Brous |
| − | * Nikos Alexandris | + | *[[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]] |
| − | * [[User:Dcampbell | David Campbell]] | + | *Nikos Alexandris |
| − | * ''Please add yourself'' | + | *[[User:Dcampbell|David Campbell]] |
| + | *''Please add yourself'' | ||
=== Organizations to beneficially connect with === | === Organizations to beneficially connect with === | ||
Revision as of 00:02, 1 June 2011
There is an official official foundation committee page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.
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, ISO19115 through ISO19139).
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 Geodata_Repository 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
After a Definition phase this has become an official committee within OSGeo.
Working Groups
At the first meeting of the geodata committee we decided to focus interest through three Working Groups:
- A Geodata Discovery Working Group which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
- A Geodata Packaging Working Group to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with GRASS GIS in particular.
- A Geodata Licensing Working Group to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.
Mailing List
There is a public mailing list and archive for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata.
Meetings
This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. fixed time
See the Geodata Committee page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.
People interested in participating
- Awase Khirni Syed - awasekhirni at gmail.com
- David Bitner
- Allan Doyle
- Florian Kindl
- Pericles S. Nacionales
- Markus Neteler
- Jo Walsh
- Helton Uchoa
- Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
- Daniel Brookshier
- Schuyler Erle
- Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
- Steve Coast
- Mikel Maron
- Alessandro Frigeri
- David Blasby
- Kevin Yam
- Dan Putler
- Arnulf Christl
- Ned Horning
- Norman Vine
- Colin Gowens
- Stefano Maffulli
- Frank Biasi
- Jeroen Ticheler
- Stefan Keller
- Dave Sampson
- Kevin Ward
- Jo Cook
- Nick Black
- Mateusz Loskot
- Martin Spott
- David Jonglez
- Daniel Dye
- Maksim Sestic
- Milo van der Linden
- Lorenzo Becchi
- Richard Duivenvoorde
- Artem Pavlenko
- Keith Jenkins
- Cory Horner
- François Van Der Biest
- Felipe Costa
- Brent Wood
- Ivan Gan
- Nicolas Gignac
- Rafal Wawer
- Hans-Jörg Stark
- Paul Brous
- Andrew Hunter
- Nikos Alexandris
- David Campbell
- Please add yourself
Organizations to beneficially connect with
- EOGEO
- OpenStreetMap Project
- OpenAddresses Project
- GSDI Association
- The Open Planning Project
- Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Open Geospatial Consortium
- Un point c'est tout
- CivicAccess
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
- FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland
References
Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects
- FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites
- OpenStreetMap Project
- OpenAddresses Project
- Free Earth Foundation
- Canadian Base Data
- Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent
- GeodataCommons project at U. Maine
- 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
- Geospatial One Stop
- Global Change Master Directory
- Conservation GeoPortal
- USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway - Lots of good imagery
- FAO-UN GeoNetwork portal to spatial data and information
- UNEP GEO Data Portal - more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets
- Global Land Cover Facility - Global SRTM, Landsat, MODIS, and AVHRR datasets
- CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information - Global SRTM data
Geo Data Repository & Policy Research
- FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites
- University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data
- MetroGIS Datafinder Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
- MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information
- New York City Open Accessible Space Information System
- Massachusetts GIS
On the Geodata Repository page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.
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
- Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them (United Kingdom)
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
- Conservation Commons - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
- 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."
- Public Participation GIS - "
Geodata formats
- Geodata formats Discussion
Further Reading
- Ordnance Survey challenged to open up - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
- Give us back our crown jewels - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
- Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
- 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.
PDF with layout | HTML without layout - Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
- Articles Testimonials Studies Performance Measures about Metrogis, a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA