I support the idea of widening the group to SDIs in general which would be more inclusive (even if it is initiated and dominated by INSPIRE) - the use and application of open source for SDIs in developing countries is very relevant.
Regards, -- Serena Coetzee Geography Building 3-5 Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385 On 15 May 2013, at 13:56 , Rafał Wawer wrote: Hi Jachym, A dedicated unit within OSGeo targeting INSPIRE and more broadly SDI would is IMO a great idea Jachym. I recall, I proposed OSGeo to play a role of SDIC (http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/181 ) already good 4 years ago. :) From the user point of view, making the OSGeo desktop software INSPIRE-compliant would be a great asset - especially extending data interoperability to be able to export datasets to INSPIRE data models and automatically creates corresponding metadata. INSPIRE network services, well, at least those I know: discovery, view, download; are close to OGC WCS, WMS and WFS - services already implemented in OSGeo software projects. Cheers: RAf DR. Rafal Wawer The Department of Soil Science Erosion Control and Land Protection The Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research institute ul. Czartoryskich 8 24-100 Puławy Poland Member of the OSGeo Foundation: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Wawer_Rafal mobile: +48601516434 web: www.erozja.iung.pulawy.pl -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:18 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] time for inspire committee at osgeo? Hi, I'm working on some presentation about OSGeo relationship to INSPIRE directive (some preliminary czech version of presentation, which should be presented at this years INSPIRE conference [1]) And it came to my mind, that OSGeo does not have any body, related to INSPIRE [2] While I agree, INSPIRE is mainly EU-only topic, I think, implementing INSPIRE has big market potential and software, which does not indicate support for INSPIRE is banned from to be used in public organizations in EU. I believe, also "rest of the world" can profit from changes, necessary to be implemented in EU. Therefore I would consider INSPIRE committee in OSGeo as important body, which would coordinate efforts of OSGeo projects towards INSPIRE, so that we could declare: OSGeo projects are INSPIRE ready or we are working on it. Any opinions to this? I'm personally usually against forming "yet another committee", but in this case, I do not see the topic to be covered and it really is important issue here. Jachym [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_conference_2013-paper [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
