Annual Report Geodata 2007
Public Geospatial Data Committee
- Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
- Contact name: David Bitner
Key Accomplishments
- Presentations and BOF at FOSS4G2007
- Support of Open Street Map, Open Aerial Map, and the Flight Gear Scenery Project
- Support of pulling together imagery during San Diego fires
- First OSGeo Educational data set available
Areas for Improvement
- Clear mission and direction that make it clear to members and outsiders who we are and what we do
- Work with others with similar goals so as not to reinvent the wheel
- Partner with those who need support of our resources
- Work more closely with Education Committee and education datasets
- Define clear areas where volunteers can be engaged
Opportunities to Help
- Strategic Planning -- without clear direction, it is hard to know where we can put peoples efforts to work
- Cataloguing work - both on software setup side (GeoNetwork) and collecting metadata for public data sets
- Open Geodata Licensing success stories - writing about how your organisation or project has moved to an open licensing approach, sharing decisions with others
Outlook for 2008
- Revised Mission
- Clear Directions
- Well defined areas where volunteers can get engaged
- A "GeoPortal" to data running on OSGeo systems