Folks,
Ed McNierny, who of course is a prime example of a small firm doing big
things with MapServer, sent me the following note. Can anyone from
Canada give me any pointers to this policy change in Canada regarding
royalties and licences op topographic maps? It's probably very important
for our discussions over here in Europe
Jan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data
in the US/Canada
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:30:10 -0400
From: Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jan Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jan -
Just for completeness, I should explain that TopoZone uses three major data
sets - topographic maps, aerial photos, and street maps - that are all
produced by the U. S. Federal government as public domain data. We have
long been interested in providing a similar topographic mapping service for
Canada; as the Canadian government has recently changed its
royalty/licensing policy for topographic maps, it is finally (8 years later)
possible for us to do that.
- Ed
Ed McNierney
TopoZone.com
From: Jan Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:54:56 +0200
To: Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data in the
US/Canada
Ed, how on earth could I forget you! Of course you are a magnificent
example of a small firm based on Open Source and public data.
Thanks,
Jan
Ed McNierney wrote:
Jan -
I'm not completely certain of your description, but it sounds like TopoZone
fits (www.topozone.com) and we've certainly got lots of data online. We
serve about 500,000 maps and aerial photos per day; and there aren't many
firms that can claim they are smaller than the two of us!
- Ed
Ed McNierney
TopoZone.com
From: Jan Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Jan Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:33:26 +0200
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data in the
US/Canada
Folks,
For a German-Dutch funding proposal I am looking for Mapserver sites in
the US and Canada that are based on maps which are not publicly
available here in Europe, especially cadastral and large scale
topographical maps. Preferebly these sites should be developed by small
independent firms. A good example is Rich Greenwood's Teton County Map
Server (http://www2.tetonwyo.org/mapserver/). I vaguely remember a
housing server for New York, and a very large system for Portland City,
but all pointers are welcome. We are trying to convince our local
bigwigs that it can be profitable to make these data publicly available,
both for government and for small to medium-sized firms. Those maps are
completely monopolized by government and big business over here.
Please send me personally any pointers you can think of, and I'll
summarize them for the list.
Thanks
Jan
Dr. J. Hartmann
Department of Geography
University of Amsterdam
