I really like presentation from Jason Birch from City of Nanaimo about reasons to open data and how to do it. http://www.slideshare.net/JasonBirch/moving-beyond-the-desk <http://www.slideshare.net/JasonBirch/moving-beyond-the-desk>Don't forget to look at notes too, I did forgot first time.
Haris On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Bob Basques <[email protected]>wrote: > All, > > I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our > datasets to the public. We currently have about 30 GIS data layers > available to the public*,* <http://,> with ~170 layers that are not > public. While there are some layers that won't be made available for > security or licensing issues, there are many that the owners of simply don't > want to make available. > > I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal that might > sway some of the folks sitting on datasets internally to get them to publish > the data to the masses and need points of reasoning to point them at. > > I already have some info related to general practices moving towards this > type of data availability, and some of the recent threads on the OSGEO lists > about data licensing would likely come into play as well. > > Thanks for any pointers on this. > > bobb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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