This looks brilliant! Just created a package on CKAN:
http://ckan.net/package/read/wisconsin-view -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
