<grin> I met with Steve Coast a couple weeks ago. We're doing everything we can to help OSM get the spatial data holdings of the USGS (which are entirely copyright free).
-Eric Wolf -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jens Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > Just found this on netzpolitik.org: > > http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data > > "If you’re a fan of free data flow into and out of the government, Vivek > Kundra seems like an ally. But we can’t rest on our laurels. Now is > exactly the time when lobbying for particular data and documents to be > made accessible could be most effective." > > "This is your place to report where government data is locked up by > design, neglect or misapplication of technology. We want you to point > out the government data that you need or would like to have. Get involved! " > > Might this be interesting to the OSM project? > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
