Petition for open geo data in all the 27 member states?

[Benjamin Henrion]

Hi,

It would be great if we could formulate new licence terms for
governments in order to help them to free our data.

This crown copyright adopted by several member states is slowing down
the GIS industry, and we should be able to call on politicians to
change this silly cost recovery policy.

I am thinking to start a platform under publicgeodata.org in order to
start national petitions.

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FFII Brussels - [phone] - [phone]

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[Rufus Pollock]

Sounds a great idea Benjamin. I think we could substantially reuse the
text from:

http://www.okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php

We also need to sort out the petition software (or use some standard
petition service) as we've had to take down
http://petition.publicgeodata.org/ for the time being due to spam issues
(bascially the form allowing you to notify others of the petition was
wide open to abuse ...).

Regards,

Rufus

Benjamin Henrion wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It would be great if we could formulate new licence terms for
> governments in order to help them to free our data.
>
> This crown copyright adopted by several member states is slowing down
> the GIS industry, and we should be able to call on politicians to
> change this silly cost recovery policy.
>
> I am thinking to start a platform under publicgeodata.org in order to
> start national petitions.
>
> --
> Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
> FFII Brussels - [phone] - [phone]
>
> _______________________________________________
> geo-discuss mailing list
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[Benjamin Henrion]

Funny, I was looking at the signatures, while I found this site
linking to some of our files:

http://www.ign-sn.de/

http://publicgeodata.org/files/envicommittee_20060221.mp3

On 3/23/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@...> wrote:

> Sounds a great idea Benjamin. I think we could substantially reuse the
> text from:
>
> http://www.okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php
>
> We also need to sort out the petition software (or use some standard
> petition service) as we've had to take down
> http://petition.publicgeodata.org/ for the time being due to spam issues
> (bascially the form allowing you to notify others of the petition was
> wide open to abuse ...).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It would be great if we could formulate new licence terms for
> > governments in order to help them to free our data.
> >
> > This crown copyright adopted by several member states is slowing down
> > the GIS industry, and we should be able to call on politicians to
> > change this silly cost recovery policy.
> >
> > I am thinking to start a platform under publicgeodata.org in order to
> > start national petitions.
> >
> > --
> > Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
> > FFII Brussels - [phone] - [phone]
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > geo-discuss mailing list
> > geo-discuss@...
> > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
>

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[pgc]

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Benjamin, all,
do you know this NWIP by ISO/TC211 (derived from OGC GeoDRM)?
Rights expression language for geographic information - GeoREL

Scope of proposed project
To create a XML-based vocabulary to express rights for geographic information in
order that digital licenses may be created for such internet resources, whether
data or services. This vocabulary should be a minimal extension of the ISO REL as
defined in ISO 21000-5.

[see http://www.isotc211.org/docreg/sok?action=docreg1 # 211n2158].
[see http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/30]

I do think national petitions should seriously take into account what OGC+ISO are discussing.
At the moment GeoREL is a 24month planned project (so, at least it will become ISO standard in 2010); the NWIP is going to be voted by National Standardisation bodies to start (or not) the project for standardisation. Deadline is April 30th.

pg

On 3/23/07, Benjamin Henrion <bh@...> wrote:

Hi,

It would be great if we could formulate new licence terms for
governments in order to help them to free our data.

This crown copyright adopted by several member states is slowing down
the GIS industry, and we should be able to call on politicians to
change this silly cost recovery policy.

I am thinking to start a platform under publicgeodata.org in order to
start national petitions.

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Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
FFII Brussels - [phone] - [phone]

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