Jo Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060411]: > dear Felix, thanks for writing. > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:09:48PM +0200, eXception handler - Felix A. Kaegi > wrote: > > perfect petition - we not only love it - we need it - and quite very soon ! > > > > would you please also add the Country Switzerland to the petitions > > address drop down list, so we could hand in the results also to the Swiss > > Government > > that does actually not belong to the EU. > > > > PS: I've signet the petition without chooseing any country so far - but > > without data we cannot hand in the petition to the Swiss Government. > > You're the first Swiss person I've had this request from, but > appreciate that it's a big issue, also for the Norwegians; it seems > worse for them, because the Norwegian national mapping agency has been > heavily involved in the INSPIRE design process and plan to implement > whatever results from the Directive. > > I've been reluctant to add non-EU member states to the petition, as it's > about something so EU specific (a couple of Canadians have been in > touch to talk about their local issues; but Canada is *in theory* a > way ahead, slowly moving towards the open access stance in a pragmatic > way - http://geocoder.ca/ is built with public geodata for example) > > But Switzerland and Norway as special cases are probably ones that we > should consider including, as they will both be very much affected by > any EU Directive describing the public's right to access > state-collected geodata...
Norway implements EU directives in their national law I think. Swiss do not. -- Benjamin Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bh.udev.org <<< INSPIRE Directive will close >>> <<< Public access to State-collected Geographic Data >>> <<< All over Europe >>> <<< http://publicgeodata.org >>> _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
