Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open repository for general research GIS data ?

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Karsten,
There seem to be a lot to choose from, the question is - how special is 
spatial in this context? - http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories

And - https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/

Background reading - 
https://cos.io/about/news/open-science-framework-now-recommended-repository-nature-publishing-group/



Ideally open data should be somewhere it can be easily found, and even 
more ideally, the metadata harvest-able via an API so third-parties can 
readily find it.
This is important because it doesn't matter if the data is out there if 
no-one can find it. Right now we have literally hundreds (maybe 
thousands) of institutional CKAN/DKAN installs globally, all with their 
own disparate datasets. And then all of the aforementioned open-data 
repositories, many of which have probably rolled their own APIs.


This is a problem I'm trying to solve with GeoSeer 
(https://www.geoseer.net) - it's a search engine for public OGC services 
(WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS) that brings many of those datasets (over 450,000 
so far) into a single place. Over time I plan on adding other types of 
GIS data to it, but that of course is contingent on being able to 
reliably and automatically find it.


Cheers,
Jonathan



On 2018-03-28 14:11, karsten wrote:

Dear All,
I just had a colleague ask me about open data repositories for GIS 
files. Despite knowing the usual suspects such as OSM, GeoWiki, 
Natural earth data ,
Global administrative areasand so on I am not aware that there would 
be a more general option to store general research GIS data e.g. for 
scientific purposes such as agricultural research results ...
The original request from my colleague is: /"Regarding open GIS data, 
where are the most stable/accessible/well known depositories of open 
access data that researchers can add their data to?  We are thinking 
of the possibilities for archiving data layers so that they can be 
used by anyone, but ( ideally) without us having to take 
responsibility for running the servers etc.  As an example for 
non-spatial data we use Dataverse."/

Would anyone be aware of such a repository ?
Thanks
Karsten
Karsten Vennemann
www.terragis.net 



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What Open Government can learn from us Open Source folks

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Rahul,

I thought you might be interest to know that we've put the submission 
into the Australian government, and pointed to this blog post:


http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/what-could-open-government-learn-from.html

Warm regards, Cameron


On 7/3/18 4:08 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:


Thanks for the feedback Rahul,

Would you mind adding your comment into the text of the document (It 
is easier for me to collate comments, and also allows other reviewers 
to see your comments).


I've provided you with review access:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#heading=h.48b0gqkr8pdy


On 5/3/18 2:36 pm, Rahul Soshte wrote:

Hi Cameron,

A suggestion would be be to add the point of process of making of the 
Laws of a country(Editing the book of rules of Law governing the 
country) collaborative.By that way the Laws would be consistently and 
approriate to the changing times.For example in India,some laws made 
before independence by the British are still prevalent today and I 
presume the same has happened with any other country which was under 
foreign rule for a long time.So a collaborative law making process 
would be more better than a limited set of contributors chosen by the 
government themselves.


Regards,
Rahul Soshte



On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:57 AM, Cameron Shorter 
mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Folks,

Thanks to those of you who have reviewed the response to the
proposed Open Government National Action Plan. And I know a
number of you are planning to add more feedback this week. (In a
nutshell: The response explains Open Government needs to learn
how to collaborate as effectively as Open Source communities, and
what government needs to change to make this happen).

OSIA folks and Linux Australia Council, I'm formally requesting
that this letter be presented jointly by Open Source Industry
Australia (OSIA) and Linux Australia. What is involved in getting
this permission?

A status update:

* The Linux Journal has offered to publish a piece on this. I'll
be reaching out to other publications in the next couple of weeks
to invite them to publish too. (Suggestions of publications
welcomed).

* I've incorporated most changes suggested so far. I've had a
couple of people suggest a better introduction / exec summary -
which I'll be working on.

* I'm hoping to collate all preliminary feedback within the next
2 weeks (by ~ 16 March).

* Deadline for delivery of our response is 30 March.

Document is here:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#



Warm regards, Cameron



On 27/2/18 8:52 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:

The Australian Government has asked for feedback on how they
are going at Open Government, and I've started a draft
response. I'm really keen to make sure that this response is
well constructed because I think that if listened to,
understood, and acted upon, then we can make a huge
difference to the effectiveness of Open Government worldwide
- and by extension, to Open Source as well.

If you have a chance to read and provide review comments, I'd
be very grateful. Email me directly to get review access.

(It will take ~ 10 minutes to read. Longer if you take time
to think about how things should be reworded and consider
what is missing and should be included.)


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#heading=h.5zu4u4o3l7zi





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