Publishing data would be consistent with Presidents open government initiative
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/ -joel On 1/15/10 1:11 PM, "Bob Basques" <bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote: > > > All, > > > > I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our > datasets to the public. We currently have about 30 GIS data layers available > to the public, <http://,> with ~170 layers that are not public. While there > are some layers that won't be made available for security or licensing issues, > there are many that the owners of simply don't want to make available. > > > > I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal that might sway > some of the folks sitting on datasets internally to get them to publish the > data to the masses and need points of reasoning to point them at. > > > > I already have some info related to general practices moving towards this > type of data availability, and some of the recent threads on the OSGEO lists > about data licensing would likely come into play as well. > > > > Thanks for any pointers on this. > > > > bobb > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -joel ---- Joel D. Schlagel U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil
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