My friend Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView, is now making available all of the program's satellite imagery (more than 6 Terabytes worth) under the CC0 mark. A little "press release" announcing this follows.
---- Since 2004, WisconsinView (http://www.wisconsinview.org) has made aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. Starting June 30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all of its more than 6 Terabytes of imagery data under the new CC0 Protocol provided by Creative Commons. The CC0 (pronounced CC-Zero) Protocol waives any rights in a dataset, ensuring that all of the dataset is available to anyone without encumbrance of any kind. More information on CC0 is available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0, and the reasoning behind the protocol is described at http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/. Further questions about WisconsinView may be directed to Dr. Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView at sabat...@wisc.edu or Puneet Kishor, Science Commons Fellow (Geospatial Data) at punk...@creativecommons.org. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss