-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi
I'm Jorge from OSGeo Spanish Language Local Chapter and gvSIG project. As probably you know, gvSIG is a nice SDI client supporting WxS services, gazetteer and metadata. One of the aims of the project is to support and promote SDI's and free geodata access and it's pretty interesting to know that one of the most successful sections of the official web page is the one related with free geodata[1]. On the other hand, at OSGeo-es last meeting in Girona we talked about starting a group to catalog free geodata resources (specially WMS servers) and some people started a geodata group[2][3]. The day after this meeting I attended a Geonetwork workshop with Jeroen Ticheler as instructor (anyone knows someone better?) and we talk briefly about having an OSGeo metadata catalog available for promoting these free geodata resources. My question to this committee is if an OSGeo catalog exists but no one is promoting it, or if it doesn't, do you think having and OSGeo metadata catalog for free geodata could be interesting? If you think so, I would enforce my colleagues to move efforts to work on the catalog as a main reference for anyone asking for geodata. Well, at gvSIG we think this is an interesting initiative but we don't want to duplicate efforts, if OSGeo doesn't publish a catalog, gvSIG will try it, but before starting such work, we should ask the OSGeo fellows :-) Best regards [1] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=enlaces-interes&L=2&K=1 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodatos_en_OSGeo-es (in Spanish) [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodatos_publicados (in Spanish) - -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://es.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKNerOAAoJEAOYD75lvHdBn0IIAIUbXHDsavNu5QRENnj8Wqbr Z5nCm2mFvOPzMmDE5yiYsx6eFJqoGUWLM7U+e4wLrPXtGkFB7bhP1fwYEb6NJxlX ggQGU26LWLbUAde4PDNV1neYYsNF+aQJydqE5qy8Hs9oS8Hb9/awFoB5gd3jD+UR Ithd3tse4ghetMlEJdnpE8LxGkU7wVRuvvn/CgNmfQ8B44eKoHQ08ik3qe8x0wfI 6IUuGTJJrQ3r5+01au0lmCwYEZd/rshgoA+hChj2gqEVaUP9pexn637ck98Jq63U xDCx/v4QXYa6PktoSf8xDwx/LiTgfJsUuvgozFN1pORI9BfCwYt/vqBvmpBEX9g= =is8p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Spanish mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/spanish
