On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Data is indeed where it all starts. There is a very good demo dataset
included with the GeoMoose package, it's aimed primarily at a state (of
Minnesota) perspective currently. There are also some municipal datasets in
Markus Neteler wrote:
...
There is another dataset, the OSGeo education data set:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina
It contains all kind of data/maps in original formats and preprocessed,
covering a wide range of potential applications.
The Geospatial Integration
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
How should it be made available? Via an external WMS, or as a data
download or ...
Do we expect styling information to be
Cameron Shorter wrote:
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
Same as OpenStreetMap
How should it be made available? Via
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:21:03PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
Creative Commons
On 2008/10/22 3:58 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
The OGC, a likely supporter, will be talking with our FOSS4G
organising committee early next week, and I'd like to table ideas from
you, the OSGeo community, to the meeting.
Data is where it starts; do you have data?
Data
Hi,
a view from the developing world like India, is that
1. we encourage GIS first.
GIS can give the much needed transparency by showing the truth.
2. GIS can be done in various ways, using both Open Software as well as
Prop-Com software like ESRI.
3. Translation into other languages is easier
Miguel Montesinos wrote:
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Dave Patton
Enviado el: sáb 18/10/2008 18:22
Para: OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI Spain conference incident
On 2008/10/17 12:15 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
Hi All, I resend this mail to OSGeo discuss
Hello,
I invite people to subscribe and contribute to new mail list contractors
Actually it has existed for a couple of weeks, but I've been too busy with,
well, contracting, to write a simple introduction!
I see it as an opportunity for:
* individuals who try to or want to make a living
I'm please to say that this morning I gave a 30 minute presentation on
Open Source Geospatial software at the Southwest U.S. ESRI Users Group
meeting and that it was well received.
Thanks to those of you that answered a couple I posted on lists
recently in conjunction with researching my
Chris, and the geodata list,
Your comments are valid.
Does OSGeo have an official stance on data licencing? If not, I think we
should.
Currently, the Australian government is moving licencing the majority of
their data (including geospatial) under Creative Commons.
The responses I've heard
Chris's comments are very valid and very important. I speak from the
position of having been involved in the entire process that gave rise
to the CC0 protocol.
Every jurisdiction has its own laws. Here in the US, databases, for
the most part, cannot be copyrighted. Creative Commons License is
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:22:50AM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Chris, and the geodata list,
Your comments are valid.
Does OSGeo have an official stance on data licencing? If not, I think we
should.
Currently, the Australian government is moving licencing the majority of
their data
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
Geodata is not creative. Creative Commons licenses are written for
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:22:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:22 +1000,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
Geodata
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