RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

[Landon Blake]

Tim,

Might the OSGeo be able to partner with this organization on some level?
http://www.opendataconsortium.org/

I think there goals are the same on this topic, at least in the area we
have been discussing. I can provide a contact I have made with the group
previously if desired.

Landon

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On of the aims of OSGeo is the promotion of open geodata.  From
conversations I've had with various people over time it appears one of
the difficulties data providers may have with this is licensing.
There's no obvious candidate license for open geodata.  Do we need
something like OSI approved licenses for geodata?  Are there any
existing OSI licenses that suit?  If so, we should be pointing to them.
Do we need input from those with a legal clue?  Should we be talking to
OSI about this?

Just thought I'd raise the issue and see what others think.

Tim Bowden

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

[Chris Holmes]

 Do we need something like OSI approved licenses for geodata? 

There are at least 2 parallel efforts to establish an equivalent
definition at the same level as "OSI compliance" for open data:
http://www.opendefinition.org/ 
http://www.freedomdefined.org/ 


Creative Commons also has a FAQ about applying their licenses to data:

http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/databases.html

My meeting with them got rescheduled to this Friday.  They're planning 
on updating the faq soon, so I'm going to ask them lots of geodata 
questions and hopefully they'll incorporate some of that in to the new 
faq.  I have a few questions to ask, but if anyone has specific 
questions or use cases, feel free to forward to me.


Chris

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

[nicholas . g . lawrence]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/03/2007 04:45:26 PM:

> On of the aims of OSGeo is the promotion of open geodata.  From
> conversations I've had with various people over time it appears one of
> the difficulties data providers may have with this is licensing.
> There's no obvious candidate license for open geodata.  Do we need
> something like OSI approved licenses for geodata?  Are there any
> existing OSI licenses that suit?  If so, we should be pointing to them.
> Do we need input from those with a legal clue?  Should we be talking to
> OSI about this?

> Just thought I'd raise the issue and see what others think.

> Tim Bowden

I can report that the government in Queensland, Australia is
considering the creative commons liscence for releasing publically-
available geodata. It is not final, but close to it.

nick



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Broken link report

[Robert Bray]

Patrick,

The broken link is now fixed. Thanks for your interest in the MapGuide 
project.


Bob

Tsai Chih-Cheng wrote:

Hi all :)

I am interested in using MapGuide OpenSource in my research.

I tried to develop some specific capabilities, so I consulted the 
documentations : http://mapguide.osgeo.org/documentation.html 
.
And I found the hyperlink of Application Develpoment - Sample Code[ZIP]( 
https://mapguide.osgeo.org/files/documents/12/33/MapGuideDevGuideSamples.zip 
) 
is broken.

Could someone help me to get this file or fix the link?

Thank you.
 


Best Regards,

Patrick




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G 2007 Workshop Submission

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Dear people,

Thank you for your information. I have to say I find that pretty  
frustrating and annoying knowing that GeoNetwork opensource is one of  
the incubator projects of OSGEO, the number of OSGEO projects is  
(still) limited and FOSS4G is the OSGEO conference.


Participating with the project in OSGEO has multiple reasons, one of  
them being that it provides opportunities to work on synergies and  
work on marketing the OSGEO software stack. Now how does the intent  
of OSGEOs mission fit with refusing a (single) workshop on one of its  
projects. Maybe I miss something, but I'd assumed there was at least  
some kind of a relation!?


Looking forward to some good feedback and discussion on this, also on  
the OSGEO mailing list as I consider that discussion very relevant in  
the further development of outreach strategies for ourselves and the  
OSGEO foundation through conferences.


Core question:

"Should OSGEO projects have guaranteed workshop and presentation  
space for at least one session?"


Regards,
Jeroen

On Mar 28, 2007, at 5:58 PM, FOSS4G 2007 wrote:


Dear Jeroen Ticheler,

We regret to inform you that we will not be able to accept your  
Half Day
workshop, "Using the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog",  
for the
FOSS4G 2007 program.  We had a very large number of submissions  
this year, and

 have been able to accept less than half of them
.

We hope you will consider bringing some of your ideas to the  
conference in the
 form of a presentation. The Call for Presentations is currently  
open, and

there is room for 120 presentations at the conference this year
.

http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations

Yours,

The FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee



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