Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-20 Thread Adam Steer
al goal) > > > > Hope this helps! > > > Gert-Jan > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Codrina Maria > Ilie > Verzonden: woensdag 19 oktober 2016 18:22 > Aan: discuss@lists.osgeo.o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-19 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
! Gert-Jan -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Codrina Maria Ilie Verzonden: woensdag 19 oktober 2016 18:22 Aan: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data? Dear all, Probably the best argument

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-19 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Several years ago, Cameron Shorter and I responded to an Australian Government Parliamentary Inquiry into opening up access to public sector data. (8 years now Cameron...) This was done on behalf of OSGeo AustNZ. See [1]. There is definitely a role for OSGeo in lobbying for access for open data.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-19 Thread Codrina Maria Ilie
Dear all, Probably the best argument for the strong connection between the 'software development foundation' we fundamentally are and data is the talk Arnulf gave at FOSS4G Bonn: Software comes and goes. Mind the Data! [https://vimeo.com/187556741]. Furthermore, I believe that the affinity

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-19 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Dear Andrew, On 10/17/2016 11:46 PM, Andrew Turner @ mapufacture wrote: - *Geospatial support of common data catalog formats*. Notably DCAT has become prevalent thanks to the development & adoption of CKAN by many national governments. The spatial capabilities are nascent, so what would OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-18 Thread Cameron Shorter
gt; *Inviato:* lunedì 17 ottobre 2016 22.46 *A:* Venkatesh Raghavan *Cc:* OSGeo Discussions *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data? I think there is a very strong connection to make between open-source and open data. Open Data is a broad concept that really means "access to data&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-18 Thread Benoit Fournier
Maria, all, I would slightly disagree here, because I think all data can be of various degrees of quality and freshness. Maria, I can re-read your entire message with '(any) data' instead if 'open data' and it makes much more sense to me. Commercial data, paid data, authoritative data, open data,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
I have my "welcome " talk which covers what we do around here (open data, open standards, open source, open collaboration). Open data is a big part of what makes this community awesome. That said OSGeo originally had open data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Andrew Turner @ mapufacture
I think there is a very strong connection to make between open-source and open data. Open Data is a broad concept that really means "access to data". Access is more than just a download, or a license - it also means having the tools and methods available for everyone to turn the data into

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Cameron Shorter
Sanghee, Schuyler Erle's lightening talk at FOSS4G 2008 About the Need For Free and Open Source Data was one of the most talked about presentations at the time: http://nijel.org/blog/71 On 17/10/2016 2:08 PM, Sanghee Shin wrote: Dear all, Can anybody share presentation file about the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread David William Bitner
As the current chair or that committee, I'd love to see someone step in and take the helm to rejuvenate things! On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Yes indeed, we are on the same team here. Since you mentioned my name, I > tried very hard to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Jachym, I think it is better to confirm before attributing statements to someone. Nobody in his right mind would want Open data out of OSGeo and least of all Jeff. Yes, we must find a way to reactivate the Public Geodata committee. Perhaps renaming it as Open Geodata committee would be a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Sanghee, I know that Codrina Maria Ilie[1] has focused on promoting Open Data, and has given some great talks at past FOSS4G events. She has also been the chair of the open data track for many events. I see her as an OSGeo leader in open data, and she would have so many presentations to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi, Open Geospatial Data, leads to transparency in civil administration. As seeing is believing. In India we recently avoided a legislation that was in essence curtailing Freedom in Geospatial data.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
Yes indeed, we are on the same team here. Since you mentioned my name, I tried very hard to make relationships with so many communities (remember, at some point I was told that OSGeo was being too inclusive, reaching out to too many groups); so it is hard to please everyone. For sure there

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread P Kishor
I can confidently say that at least one important iteration of my career in/with open data is a result of my involvement with OSGeo. > On Oct 17, 2016, at 4:38 PM, Arnulf Christl > wrote: > > Kind of: If somebody approaches OSGeo with a good > cause we are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Jachym, I have given talks on OSGeo and open data. I am sorry to hear that you believe I said that about the foundation. I do believe we've discussed this in face-to-face board meetings before, so maybe that is where you heard this? I remember a discussion of adding open data into our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
Hey Jachym, maybe that was a misunderstanding. Yes, OSGeo focuses on software but we also have an official geodata committee (sometimes called Public Geodata, sometimes Open Geodata): http://www.osgeo.org/content/projects/geodata.html It is not active currently but there have been some activities

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Suchith Anand
. Thanks. Best wishes, Suchith From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com> Sent: 17 October 2016 10:37 AM To: Sanghee Shin; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Op