Geodata Committee Meeting 20060329
Public Geospatial Data Committee Meeting 2006-Mar-29
Meeting Info
Chair: Jo Walsh Minutes: Schuyler Erle IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org Date: 2006-Mar-29 (at least in the Americas and Europe) Time: Wednesday March 29, 15:00 UTC
Agenda Items
Old Business
- Review minutes from last meeting
- Actions from previous meeting
- Advertise the need for working group members (volunteers?) to the main discuss list [Done]
- Proposed workgroups:
- Data Discovery / Access - Geodata Discovery Working Group
- Packaging / Reuse / QA / Maintenance - Geodata Packaging Working Group
- Data Licensing - Geodata Licensing Working Group
- Each working group will propose action items (in near future)
- Itemize old business items here please
New Items
- Open Geodata Project portal
- Create a welcome page
- Starting to put together our requests for data services on the OSGeo repository at telascience
- what data can be hosted (mirrors of OnEarth/Landsat and Blue Marble are already there
- what index/search facilities can be offered.
- what metadata schemes can be most useful
- Discussion of progress on the INSPIRE Directive on sharing environmental information within Europe and how EU-based people can help raise awareness at a national level before the final vote in the European Parliament
- Please Add Agenda Items
Minutes
Attendance
Perry Nacionales, David Bitner, Norman Vine, Frank Warmerdam, Steve Coast, Jeff McKenna, Jo Walsh, Schuyler Erle, Florian Kindl, Daniel Putler, Mikel Maron