Hey Dan, I realize these aren't arguments per se but solid people to talk to. You may want to hit up Elliot Plack <elliott.pl...@gmail.com>, who works for Baltimore County GIS and recently helped open the county's GIS data under public domain for contribution to OSM.
Another high level contact might be Colin Reilly https://twitter.com/ColinReillyNY at NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications who helped open the NYC building footprint data in a practical way. -- ian twitter.com/ian_villeda (https://twitter.com/ian_villeda) On Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Daniel Joseph wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone had experience conveying to local government all > the reasons for opening up data. The city where I grew up has a clunky "GIS > web portal" with which you can only view data. A neighboring city will > provide data but their data release form includes the following: "The data is > provided solely for the use of the requesting party and may not be made > available to anyone else." > > I want to put together a succinct and well-documented argument that I can > send along to a city council member/ mayor/ city manager/ etc. > > Anything you're willing to pass along (comments, suggestions, something > you've written up, research, etc) would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org (mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org) > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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