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