On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Data is indeed where it all starts. There is a very good demo dataset
included with the GeoMoose package, it's aimed primarily at a state (of
Minnesota) perspective currently. There are also some municipal datasets in
Markus Neteler wrote:
...
There is another dataset, the OSGeo education data set:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina
It contains all kind of data/maps in original formats and preprocessed,
covering a wide range of potential applications.
The Geospatial Integration
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
How should it be made available? Via an external WMS, or as a data
download or ...
Do we expect styling information to be
Cameron Shorter wrote:
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
Same as OpenStreetMap
How should it be made available? Via
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:21:03PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
Creative Commons
On 2008/10/22 3:58 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
The OGC, a likely supporter, will be talking with our FOSS4G
organising committee early next week, and I'd like to table ideas from
you, the OSGeo community, to the meeting.
Data is where it starts; do you have data?
Data
Chris, and the geodata list,
Your comments are valid.
Does OSGeo have an official stance on data licencing? If not, I think we
should.
Currently, the Australian government is moving licencing the majority of
their data (including geospatial) under Creative Commons.
The responses I've heard
Chris's comments are very valid and very important. I speak from the
position of having been involved in the entire process that gave rise
to the CC0 protocol.
Every jurisdiction has its own laws. Here in the US, databases, for
the most part, cannot be copyrighted. Creative Commons License is
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:22:50AM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Chris, and the geodata list,
Your comments are valid.
Does OSGeo have an official stance on data licencing? If not, I think we
should.
Currently, the Australian government is moving licencing the majority of
their data
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
Geodata is not creative. Creative Commons licenses are written for
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:22:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:22 +1000,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
Geodata
OSGeo,
A key attractor we would like to launch at FOSS4G 2009 is a Geospatial
Integration Showcase.
The Geospatial Integration Showcase provides an easily deployable,
practical demonstration of standards based interoperability between
geospatial applications. After FOSS4G, the showcase
Re Data:
I'm expecting to get data. In fact, we might have more than we can handle.
I've talked with some Australian and New Zealand government data
custodians and all of them have been excited about getting their data on
line.
From the data custodians point of view, FOSS4G is a great
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