My friend Dr. Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView, has made available the program's more than 6 Terabytes of satellite imagery under the CC0 Protocol. Here is a "press release"
Since 2004, WisconsinView (http://www.wisconsinview.org) has made aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. Starting June 30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all of its more than 6 Terabytes of imagery data under the new CC0 Protocol provided by Creative Commons. The CC0 (pronounced CC-Zero) Protocol waives any rights in a dataset, ensuring that all of the dataset is available to anyone without encumbrance of any kind. More information on CC0 is available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0, and the reasoning behind the protocol is described at http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ . Further questions about WisconsinView may be directed to Dr. Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView at [email protected] or Puneet Kishor, Science Commons Fellow (Geospatial Data) at [email protected]. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
