All,
Thanks for all the links to information, I've got a pretty good list of Federal
initiatives, now I'm after more localized efforts, something at the City or
Municipal level. Really it can be anything related to making government
(geospatial) data available to the masses and why it makes
Hi all, have a few minutes a week to help post news/events on the OSGeo
website? Frank and I usually take care of these items but could use a
bit of help to keep things running smoothly.
There is a (volunteer) opportunity for at least one person to help out
in the role of OSGeo News Editor.
There is also a small community of FOSS advocates growing using the Government
of Canada's social networking tool GCconnex (currently a pilot)
If you are a federal employee in Canada check out the FOSS4GOC group and also
tag your profile with OSGEO so we can find who is using FOSS and FOSS4G
Hi - I just was looking over the good MapAction GIS Field guide
(http://www.mapaction.org/content/view/183/59/)
I was wondering if OSGeo had a comparable guide. It could talk about how
to use cross-platform tools such as QGIS or others to utilize both open
data sources like OpenStreetMap
Bob,
Another one from Australia:
The url at [1] contains the link to the final report for the (Australian
State) Victorian Government Parliamentary Inquiry into improving access to
Public Sector Information and data.
If you look closely at the report you'll see a number of references to the
--- On Wed, 20/1/10, Andrew Turner ajtur...@highearthorbit.com wrote:
From: Andrew Turner ajtur...@highearthorbit.com
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Humanitarian GIS guide
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Date: Wednesday, 20 January, 2010, 1:25 AM
Hi - I just was looking over the good