On 16/06/2011 15:31, TimSC wrote:
My communication recent with the woodland trust, regarding open data:
It would be good if you could do more on data openness - that is more
permissive permissions to use data on your web site. Also it would be
good to be able to upload creative commons licensed photos to your
visitwoods pages, as there are many good photos on flickr like that.
Regards,
Tim
On 16/06/11 15:28, Tim Sheerman-Chase wrote:
On 16/06/11 15:20, visitwo...@woodlandtrust.org.uk wrote:
Your comments about data and creative commons prompted an
interesting discussion in our team. While we would like to do more
about data openness, our data is licensed from a huge number of
partners, so we are unable at present to make it more open. We would
like to assure you that your comments have been taken seriously, and
have been fed into our ongoing project development.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I look forward to any future
attempts that can be made on your part to adopt open data.
You might be interested in something I did with Kent Council Council
recently. They released a list and rough location of green spaces in
the Medway area. I have created a web 2.0 website to collect user
annotations and improved position data.
http://toolserver.org/~timsc/locateservices/greenspaces/ I hope it is
food for thought.
Regards,
Tim
_______________________________________________
Talk-GB mailing list
Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Virtually all the Woodland Trust management plans are available on their
website: a lot of the mapping that I have seen (either on the web, or
signposted changes on the ground) is based on MasterMap. They are
well-known in the conservation 'industry' to be rather better resourced
than many other charities.
I had a conversation with the CEO of a large wildlife charity last
summer: he was interested that I could suggests alternatives to MapInfo
as licence & support costs were significant outgoings. Many of the
conservation organisations I know will only have one license for GIS and
therefore using geographical information is not embedded in either the
way they do things or in how they collect data (for instance when field
surveys are done). Helping charities to understand these issues are
probably more helpful than asking them to devote (scarce) staff
resources to open data. I dont know how the PMSA affects this: but many
Wildlife Trusts will have strong mutual relationships with the
equivalent councils.
From an OSM viewpoint a lot of data will be affected by the OSGB
derived work issue: which AFAIK is not resolved.
Jerry
Jerry
_______________________________________________
Talk-GB mailing list
Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
