FOSS4G Public Geodata BOF Attendees

FOSS4G Public Geodata BOF, Sept 2006

• Ari Jolma - Educational interest more than political in public geodata
• Ned Horning - Museum of Natural History
• Jo Walsh
• Pedro Goncalves from Terradue - GRID and GIS services - projects with ESA and the EC
• Peter from the Irish environmental protection agency - IPR issues - metadata collection - OSGeo support for archiving
• Tim Waters - localgov in bradford UK
• David Jonglez - camptocamp - better GIS through public geodata
• Francois Prunayre - office for water in France - data collection in ministry of ecology - publishing data (http://sandre.eaufrance.fr) - licensing issues to resolve
• please fill in name later - German localgov
• Steffen Vogt - IPG Uni Freiburg / SCAR SC Antarctic Geographic Information - IPR issues - access issues
• Perry Nacionales - u minnesota - os gis and web mapping - environment management - lots of data, not
• Daniel McInerny - academic OS research
• Seppo Kaitala - finnish institute for marine research - satellite imagery interest - INSPIRE interest
• Przemysław Bojczuk - University of Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin, Poland - geodata access issues
• Georg Lösel - GRASS user group - free geodata in germany
• Peter Löwe - GRASS user group - landscape interpretation - env data
• Frank Koormann, Intevation / freegis.org - general eurodata interest and licencing
• Clarissa Sweeney - MIT - GIS lab there - student global data usage interest
• Nick Black - OpenStreetmap - GPS based data collection + web services - cf opengeodata.org
• Vasile Craciunescu - National Meteorological Administration (RS & GIS Lab) in Bucharest - romania starting to build SDI, is a good opportunity for as to learn from other countries experience, avoid the mistakes and start with the right foot (public access to geodata is, in my opinion, one of the most important aspects)
• [missed name sorry] - academic background in Zurich - web mapping services - QGIS user - eurodata access problems - using US data for tutorial info
• Andrew Turner - GeoRSS - aggregation + licenses for geodata
• Barnarby - GSI systems consultant - geospatial intelligence systems
• Alejandro Chumaceiro - Venezuela - 1:500000 scale data for cities - published via web services working on data reuse and maintenance for localgov - public or semi-public - metadata management
• Christian - Venezuela -
• Josh Lieberman from Austin - concern over proprietary movement in US govdata policy - coordinating licensing terms - what is reasonable public use
• Jachym Cepicky from .cz Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno - general interest - concern over cross-gov data sales
• Markus Neteler - GRASS project - creating precedent to free data - interested in algorithm based generation