Hi. Does anyone know if OSM is represented on, or has presented to INSPIRE<http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/>? I don't find any mention of OSM on their 2010 reports (there is a very interesting one on state of *Spatial Data Infrastructures *in Ireland here: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/6/list/4<%20http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/6/list/4> ).
If anyone interested there is a call for papers/posters closing in the next few days for the INSPIRE conference in Edinburgh. Or perhaps you know someone in UK who might be interested in presenting OSM. http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2011/ By coincidence I visit the building where INSPIRE is driven from in Brussels a few times a year. I would be happy to introduce OSM to the Commission there, or find out what their opinion is on it, if they have one. I found out about INSPIRE after bumping into a local representative on the Irish group working on integrating spatial information. They have developed www.isde.ie which they explained is a work in progress. They had not considered OSM to date but were genuinely interested in it and in derivatives like OpenSeaMap. They mentioned not all participants in the National group may be able to denote their data freely, but some might. If people thought it was worth exploring further there are two angles to this - tops down via Brussels and bottoms up via the national team. At least raising awareness of OSM to both parties. Anyone know if these folks have been contacted already? If there is a more appropriate forum to discuss pls advise. Whilst people are thinking about it, I was wondering if there are 'standard' presentations that introduce OSM. Including describing the legal/copyright considerations that 3rd parties should be aware of. I found http://weait.com/files/IntroToOSM-DC.pdf but it seems to be from 2008/9 so might be out of date given recent license change etc. Thanks! - John. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
