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OGC's Geospatial Rights Management Summit to be held on June 22 at MIT in Cambridge, MA

2009-06-03T04:44:47Z

For anyone in the vicinity, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is
having a Geospatial Rights Management Summit at MIT later this month!

J.

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Jonathan,

I wonder if you would send the invitation below to the people on your
Open Knowledge Foundation list. Some of them may be interested in
attending the OGC's Geospatial Rights Management Summit to be held on
June 22 at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

I believe the work of the OGC's Geospatial Rights Management Working
Group (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/geormwg) and the
OGC's development of an open architecture for the Global Earth
Observation System of Systems
(http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/geoss/ogc) are
critical enablers of a new era in which all types of geospatial
scientific data will aggregate into a permanent and increasingly
important knowledge resource. The benefits -- which I think are
extraordinary -- are outlined after the press release below under
"Open Access to Geospatial Data," extracted from an article by Dr.
Mike Jackson et al.

I helped found the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 1994 and
continue to serve the OGC as a consultant.

Lance McKee
10 Circuit Avenue East
Worcester, MA
phone/fax: 508-752-0108
cell: 508-868-2295
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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
For information, contact:

Sam Bacharach
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Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
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OGC Announces Geospatial Rights Management Summit

May 6, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts.The Open Geospatial Consortium,
Inc. (OGC®) invites participation in an OGC Geospatial Rights
Management (GeoRM) Summit to be held June 22, 2009 at the Stata Center
at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Geospatial data and services -- Earth images, GIS, map browsers,
location services, navigation, etc. -- have become an integral part of
our information environment. But this progress raises issues of
security, public access, intellectual property, and emergency use of
geospatial information. The issues are complex because geospatial data
products are often composed of data from multiple sources which may
have different rights and restrictions associated with them. Thus,
business and policy issues, not technical issues, are now the industry
bottleneck.

"The OGC's Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model
(GeoDRM RM) provides a framework that enables much more than today's
‘all or nothing' protection," explained Graham Vowles, chair of
the GeoRM Working Group (
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/geormwg ) of the OGC
Technical Committee. "This has important implications for governments
and scientists whose data would have far more value if the data could
be readily shared."

"Standards based on the GeoDRM RM will open up many new opportunities
for geospatial data and geoprocessing service businesses," said Mark
Reichardt, the OGC's president and CEO. "We are holding this summit to
give multiple stakeholder communities an opportunity to see how they
can benefit from developing and using GeoRM standards."

For OGC GeoRM Summit information, agenda and registration, see
http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090622georm.

The OGC's June 2009 Technical Committee meeting week also includes a
Sensor Web Summit ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090624swe )
hosted by the OGC's Sensor Web Enablement Working Group and a 3D Fusion
Summit http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0906233dfusion ) hosted by
the OGC's 3DIM Working Group.

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 380
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support
interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and
location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
technology developers to make geospatial information and services
accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/.

_______________________________________________

(The paragraphs below are excerpted from "The Evolution of Geospatial
Technology Calls for Changes in Geospatial Research, Education and
Government Management", by
Prof. Mike Jackson, University of Nottingham; David Schell; and Prof.
D.R. Fraser Taylor, Carleton University. The article was published in
Directions Magazine 2009-04-07
http://www.directionsmag.com/author.php?author_id=568 .)

Open Access to Geospatial Data

Academics and those who fund their research should be acutely
interested in the proposition that geospatial data developed for
scientific purposes can be, in a Web environment, a resource whose
value increases with the number of researchers who use it. Geography
has always been interdisciplinary and GIS has always been a tool for
combining data from different sources. All geodata refers to some
aspect of the same Earth. If researchers properly document, archive
and publish their data and methodologies using available Web
technologies, standards and best practices, many benefits accrue:

a) Improved opportunities for cross-disciplinary and longitudinal
studies. This is key. Geography is inherently cross-disciplinary, and
a main underlying theme in modern science is the relatedness of
phenomena. We need interdisciplinary and longitudinal studies to help
us address critical problems such as resource depletion, climate
change, population, pollution, disaster management and adequate
provision of food, water, shelter and energy.

b) Improved verifiability of results. Science requires that
experiments be replicable, and therefore experimental data must be
available. In the context of the standards regime described above,
details of methods and semantics become more accessible for review. In
this new environment, GIS and remote sensing studies will be less
vulnerable to the accusation that pretty maps are being used to cover
up poor experimental design or biased reasoning. Climate science made
more verifiable will be harder to discredit or ignore.

c) Improved Web-based data publish/search capabilities. These make
much more data available and enable more efficient assessment of data.
In most cases, literature searches will be a much less efficient way
to discover data than direct data searches using online catalogs,
because researchers looking for previously collected data often do not
know which bodies of literature to search. For example, data collected
by an ornithologist may include temperature readings that would be
valuable to a hydrologist.

d) Improved ability to re-use or repurpose data for new
investigations, reducing redundant data collection, increasing the
value of data and creating opportunities for value-added data
enhancement. The value of data increases when the data can be re-used
or when they can be collected with the intention of serving multiple
research purposes. This benefits the public and those who fund
scientific research, and brings a greater return in terms of the
general application and use of science. It benefits data owners, who
may be able to charge for use of the data they generate or who may add
value to it to provide more useful and saleable products.

e) Improved opportunities to collaboratively plan data
collection/publishing efforts to serve multiple defined and undefined
uses.

f) Improved rigor and transparency regarding data collection methods,
processing methods and data semantics. The SensorML standard makes the
processing chain transparent. Generally agreed upon conventions for
describing data and methods (such as data reduction) contribute to
clarity and rigor.

g) Improved ability to discover spatial relationships. Researchers
will surely browse data and become curious about patterns they notice.
Robust data descriptions and quick access to the data will enable more
rapid exploration of hypothetical relationships.

h) Improved ability to characterize, in a standardized human-readable
and machine-readable way, the parameters of sensors, sensor systems
and sensor-integrated processing chains (including human
interventions). This enables useful unification of many kinds of
observations, including those that yield a term rather than a number.

i) Improved ability to "fuse" in-situ measurements with data from
scanning sensors. This bridges a historical divide between research
communities that have focused mainly on either unmediated raw
spatial-temporal data or spatial-temporal data that is the result of a
complex processing chain.

j) Improved ability to "chain" Web services for data reduction and
analysis, and improved ability to introduce data into computer models
that use multiple inputs from remote data stores or real-time data
feeds.

k) Improved ability to encode sensor data in the ISO Feature Model
(ISO 19109). This is just one of the ways in which the OGC Sensor Web
Enablement (SWE) standards will enable scientists to leverage
off-the-shelf, standards-based tools for data modeling and management,
just as they currently use commercial spreadsheet and database
programs.

l) Improved societal and institutional return on investment of
research dollars, and improved ability of research funding
institutions to do due diligence and policy development.

m) More efficient scientific debate and accelerated pace of scientific
discovery, as automation and new institutional arrangements reduce the
amount of time spent on data management, freeing researchers' time for
more creative work and more communication with other scientists.

In the bioscience world, a similar vision has been put forward and
steps toward it taken by the Science Commons
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Commons), founded by Lawrence
Lessig. The Science Commons champions “Open Access” (OA), and OA was a
key enabler of the Human Genome Project.

Geospatial academics worldwide ought to note also the significance to
the research community taken by the recently installed Obama
administration in the US, which has resulted in the appointment as
co-chairs of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology Harold Varmus, co-founder of the Public Library of Science
and former director of the US-NIH, and Eric Lander, a lead researcher
in the Human Genome Project and founding director of the Broad
Institute (a joint MIT and Harvard institute which addresses the
effectiveness of “a new, collaborative model of science focused on
transforming medicine)". Varmus is one of the most high-profile
advocates of Open Access and the role of government in providing open
access, and both the Human Genome Project and the Broad Institute are
practitioners of open data. In this context, is it not then obvious
and provocative to consider the potential importance to geospatial
information science of recognizing the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation
System of Systems), within the US federal government as well as the
world scientific community, to be an initiative that is similar to and
as important as the Human Genome project?

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proposed merging of this list with OSGeo's geodata list.

2009-05-24T07:14:49Z

dear all,

This mailing list has had its day, perhaps. Some people think that the
"struggle for geodata"
is coming to a fruitful end soon, at least in the context of the UK. I
find that geodata
discussion has quietly drifted across to the main okfn-discuss list.

Meanwhile there is another community list which has significant
overlap with this one,
the geodata list at the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. It is also
fairly quiet,
it is a bit more focused on getting access to specific data sets and
less on "policy".

So (a while) after some nudging on the subject I am proposing to close
this list,
mirror the archives and send the membership an invite mail to
geodata@...

Let me know if you object, otherwise I'll do it late this week.

cheers,

jo
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Fwd: INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules Published

2008-11-05T14:13:19Z

FYI... this is the draft for the part of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules
(for a common SDI in Europe) that deals with WMS and Catalog Services
at a minimum.

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/implementingRulesDocs_ns.cfm
(most relevant - Discovery Services 3.0, View Services 3.0,
Network Services Architecture)

The previous draft was heavy on Geo(D)RM, it will be interesting to
see what the significant changes are. The other tendentious issue has
been the question of whether to mandate SOAP interfaces as standard
for a European SDI.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Response_to_INSPIRE_Discovery_and_View_Draft
contains the notes from the FOSS SDIC response to last year's draft.

Note that while the Metadata rules had a round of public consultation
after the first drafts went to registered organisations (including our
FOSS SDIC)
these Rules are going direct to the Commission for approval /
transliteration into a form that can be plausibly legally binding.
So they had better work for you.

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:35:11 +0100 (CET)
From: inspire-info@...
Reply-To: inspire-info@...
Subject: INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules Published
To: jo.walsh@...

Dear colleague,INSPIRE: NETWORK SERVICES DRAFT IMPLEMENTING RULES AND
GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS

The Network Services Drafting Team final version of the Discovery
and View Network Services Implementing Rules have been published.
These proposals from the Drafting team have been taken into account by
the Consolidation Team in the editing of the legal acts to be
submitted soon to the INSPIRE Committee.

In addition the first version of the corresponding technical
guidance documents have also been published. These informative
documents represents a contribution from the Drafting Team “Network
Services” to help the process of implementing the view and discovery
INSPIRE Network Services.

Preliminary versions of this document have already been revised in
the light of comments from the INSPIRE Consolidation team, INSPIRE
Drafting teams and the registered SDICs and LMOs.

The Implementing rules and the associated guidance were reviewed by
the SDICs and LMOs. The comment resolution process included a workshop
with their representatives and an open workshop during the INSPIRE
2008 conference. Based on the discussions, the Drafting Team
“Network Services” resolved the comments in this version. The
table containing the comments and the resolution is also available.

All the documents are available on the Networks Services section of
the INSPIRE site[1]

INSPIRE :DRAFT IMPLEMENTING RULES FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING,
COMMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS

On the basis of the comments received during the consultation with
registered Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) and Legally
Mandated Organisations (LMOs), the Monitoring and Reporting Drafting
Team has produced a revised version of the draft Implementing Rules on
Monitoring and Reporting (Version 3) which has been submitted to the
Commission.

The Commission will make a final review of this draft, also taking
into account the requirements of a European legislative act, and
produce a draft Commission Regulation which will be firstly submitted
for opinion to the INSPIRE Committee.

All the above documents are available on the Monitoring and
Reporting section of the INSPIRE site[2]Best regards,

The INSPIRE team
INSPIRE Conference 2009

Links:
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[1] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/implementingRulesDocs_ns.cfm
[2] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/implementingRulesDocs_mr.cfm

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Re: Conference of June on INSPIRE

2008-09-29T04:08:08Z

The recordings are here:

http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/webstreaming.cfm

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Benjamin Henrion <bh@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think I sent some emails to request the video recordings of the
> Slovenian presidency conference on INSPIRE.
>
> Does anybody has any idea how to get them?
>
> Best,
>
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> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403
>

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Conference of June on INSPIRE

2008-09-29T04:05:00Z

Hi,

I think I sent some emails to request the video recordings of the
Slovenian presidency conference on INSPIRE.

Does anybody has any idea how to get them?

Best,

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Ordonance Survey lobbying

2008-08-29T02:39:59Z

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/08/ordnance-survey-right-out-of-order.html

28 August 2008
Ordnance Survey: Right Out of Order

I always thought that the Ordnance Survey had a rather, er, Olympian
view of things that was more suited to the top-down twentieth century
than the bottom-up one we inhabit. Some fine FOI work by the Guardian
has confirmed that they really are as out of order as I surmised:

An extraordinary picture of a state body carrying out political
lobbying on the issue of free data has emerged from documents obtained
by the Guardian.

The correspondence reveals that Ordnance Survey (OS) is targeting
MPs from Westminster and devolved assemblies, civil servants and
leading figures in the free data debate. The agency openly attends
party conferences and other political events to promote the value of
geographical data. However, earlier this year a Parliamentary question
revealed that it had paid a company called Mandate £42,076.20 plus VAT
since August 2007.

So here we have a state body using *our* money to pay for lobbyists to
advise on how to stop oiks like *us* from gaining free access to the
information *we* largely foot the bill for.

The one consolation is that if they are prepared to stoop to stupid
tactics like this, they are clearly running very scared: anyone
remember Eric "pitbull" Dezenhall, another consultant brought in a
desperate attempt to stave off open access...?

Posted by glyn moody at 2:05 PM

Labels: eric dezenhall, free our data, freedom of information,
guardian, open access, opendata, ordnance survey, pitbull

2 comments:

zoobab said...

I met someone from the OS lobbying Members of the European
Parliament for non-public geodata for the INSPIRE directive.

Ordonance Survey was lobbying together with another lobbying
organisation names eurogeographics, which regroups national mapping
agencies.

The "executive" lobbying the "legislator", what a seperation of powers
6:46 PM
glyn moody said...

Thanks for that info - as you say, a pretty sad state of affairs...
6:59 PM

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BBC News article on mapping

2008-08-29T02:33:04Z

Thought this might be of interest...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm

Quotes:

Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons
have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even
post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against
"corporate blankwash", she added.

...

But Ed Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google, said the way in which
people used maps was changing.

He said: "Internet maps can now be personalised, allowing people to
include landmarks and information that is of interest to them.

"Anyone can create their own maps or use experiences to collaborate with
others in charting their local knowledge.

"These traditional landmarks are still on the map but people need to
search for them. Interactive maps will display precisely the information
people want, when they want it.

"You couldn't possibly have everything already pinpointed."

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Re: Fwd: Inspire Bundestag

2008-08-12T05:42:02Z

2008/8/12 Benjamin Henrion <bh@...>:
> This is a DE2EN translation of an article about INSPIRE in Germany; it
> seems that the german IGN website does not provide data in a reusable
> format (no WMS services for example):

I found it here:
http://geoportal.bkg.bund.de/nn_33192/sid_00000000000006006130000000000000/DE/Service/FAQs/Eintraege/Kartendienste__speichern__faq.html__nnn=true
-> "können über *diese URL* eingebunden werden. "

--> http://ims3.bkg.bund.de/bund/servlet/gtEntryPoint?wms_service_name=gpbund&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS

best,
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Fwd: Inspire Bundestag

2008-08-12T04:19:21Z

This is a DE2EN translation of an article about INSPIRE in Germany; it
seems that the german IGN website does not provide data in a reusable
format (no WMS services for example):

> http://gdi-sn.blogspot.com/2008/07/inspire-infrastruktur-fr-rumliche.html
>
> Thursday, 31 July 2008
> INSPIRE - Infrastruktur für räumliche Informationen in Europa -
> Deutscher Bundestag beschließt GeoZG zur Umsetzung
> Geoinformationen / Umweltinformationen - GeoZG im DBT beschlossen -
> Digitale Geodaten werden einfacher zugänglich
>

INSPIRE - Infrastructure for spatial information in europe
German Bundestag concludes GEOZG for the implementation of geo info
environment invo - geoZG concluded in Bundestag, digital geo data will
be accessible more simple

> Daten mit räumlichem Bezug werden einfacher zugänglich und nutzbar.
>

Spatial Data becomes more assesible and usable
>
> Auf Vorschlag von Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel hat das
> Bundeskabinett (am 30.07.2008) das Gesetz über den Zugang zu digitalen
> Geodaten (GeodatenZugangsGesetz #8722; GeoZG) beschlossen.
>

As propose by federal envirnmental minister sigmar Gabriel the federal
cabinett (30.7.08) has concluded the law about access to geo data
(geodata access law GEOZG).

> Zukünftig wird die öffentliche Verwaltung Bürgerinnen und Bürgern,
> Wirtschaft und Verwaltung den Zugang zu harmonisierten Geodaten und
> Metadaten zu deutschen und europäischen Umweltthemen über das Internet
> ermöglichen.
>

In the future the public administration will citizens, business and
administration enable access to harmonised geo and meta data to German
and European environmental issues over the intertnet,.
>
> Über das Geoportal Bund [ http://www.geoportal.bund.de ] und die dort
> angebotenen Webdienste findet man Geodaten, kann diese herunterladen
> und weiterverwenden.

Via the geoportal Federal ... and the offered web services you obtain
geo data and can download and reuse them.

> Auch Dritte können auf freiwilliger Basis ihre
> Geodaten über diese Struktur anbieten.
>

Also third parties can offer on a voluntary base their geodata via
this plattform.
>
> Schätzungen gehen davon aus, dass rund 80 Prozent aller Entscheidungen
> im öffentlichen und privaten Leben einen räumlichen Bezug haben.

Estimates tell that about 80 per cent of all decisions made in public
and private life have a spatial relation.

> Daten
> mit räumlichem Bezug (Geodaten) werden bei der Umweltüberwachung, bei
> der Einsparung von Energie und natürlichen Rohstoffen sowie bei der
> Planung ökologischer Ausgleichsmaßnahmen benötigt.

Data with spatial relation (geodata) are required for environmental
surveillande, for saving energy and natural resources and for the
planning of ecological compensation action.
>
> Für Not- und
> Rettungsdienste, Flug- und Straßenverkehr, Statistiken, GPS oder
> Navigationssysteme in mobilen Endgeräten bilden Geodaten die Basis für
> Planung, Entscheidungen und Maßnahmen.

For Emergency and Rescue services, flight and traffic, statistics, GPS
or Navigation systems in mobile devices Geo data are the base for
planning, decisions and measures.

> Auch im Wirtschaftsleben sind
> Geodaten ein bedeutender Faktor für die Entwicklung der Informations-
> und Wissensgesellschaft.
>

Also in the business environemtn geo data are an important factor for
the development of an information and knowledge society.
>
> Das GeoZG, das den Zugang zu Geodaten und ihre Nutzung erheblich
> vereinfacht, setzt die europäische so genannte „INSPIRE-Richtlinie"
> (Richtlinie 2007/2/EG vom 14. März 2007) auf der Ebene des Bundes um.
> Diese schafft die Grundlagen für den Aufbau einer europäischen
> Geodateninfrastruktur (englisch: INfrastructure for SPatial
> InfoRmation in the European Community).
>

The GEOZG, which simplifies the access and use of geo data to a large
extnt, implements the european so called "Inspire-directive"
(directive 2007/2/EG of 14 March 2007) on the federal level. This
creates the foundation for the creation of a european geo data
infrastructure (english INfrastructure for SPAtial InfoRmation in the
European Community)
>
> Das neue Gesetz berücksichtigt und unterstützt die in Deutschland seit
> 2004 gemeinsam von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen unternommenen
> Aktivitäten zum Aufbau der "Geodateninfrastruktur Deutschland"
> (GDI-DE) und ist eng mit den aus verfassungsrechtlichen Gründen
> notwendigen Ländergesetzen zur Umsetzung der INSPIRE-Richtlinie
> abgestimmt.
>

The new law takes into account and support the in Germany since 2004
together with Federal level, States and communities undertaken
activities for the creation of the geo infrastructure Germany (GDI-DE)
and it closely with the necessary federal laws for the implementation
of the inspire directive.
>
> QUELLE: BMU Pressedienst Nr. 163/08 - format edited by IGN e.V. [FH].
> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:29:53 +0200
> To: info@...
> Siehe auch: [ http://www.bmu.de/presse/aktuell/4211.php ]
> INSPIRE:
> [ http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/directive/l_10820070425en00010014.pdf ]
>
>

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Open Geo Data talks at FrosCon in Koln/Bonn

2008-08-06T12:19:54Z

There are some interesting tracks about Open Geo Data at FrosCon:

http://programm.froscon.org/2008/track/Open%20Geodata/index.en.html

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Re: address->location databases

2008-07-11T07:48:41Z

On 10/07/08 13:31, Wookey wrote:
> Let's say I have a list of european addreses which I wish to plot on a
> map.
>
> Are there free databases to turn those addreses into locations?
>
> I know of Freethepostcode.org for UK postcodes. What about other
> countries?

I'm not a geodata expert but what about GeoNames:

<http://www.geonames.org/>

More details on:

<http://ckan.net/package/read/geonames>

However I'm not sure this works with 'addresses' especially European
postal codes (it will just work with towns/regions etc).

~rufus

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PSI directive consultation

2008-07-11T00:49:31Z

Hi,

There is a consultation on the revision of the PSI directive.

We should submit something before the deadline.

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address->location databases

2008-07-10T05:31:00Z

Let's say I have a list of european addreses which I wish to plot on a
map.

Are there free databases to turn those addreses into locations?

I know of Freethepostcode.org for UK postcodes. What about other
countries?

Suggestions welcome.

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Re: INSPIRE Conference 2008

2008-06-24T11:31:22Z

On 5/3/08, ec-gis@... <ec-gis@...> wrote:

> Dear Benjamin Henrion,,
>
> Thank you for submitting your paper
> PublicGeoData: State-collected Geographic Data is public property
> Benjamin Henrion
>
> to the INSPIRE Conference 2008. Unfortunately, due to the large number of
> papers received we regret that we cannot include your paper in this year's
> programme as an oral presentation.
>
> We would however like to include the paper as a poster presentation.

Hi,

I hope the conference went fine.

I saw there was video streaming, but I saw it too late.

Do you plan to publish those videos online soon? Or is it possible to
order a copy of those?

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INSPIRE conference live streaming

2008-06-24T11:29:11Z

http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/webstreaming.cfm

I did not dump the streaming, I hope the organisors have a recording.

Live webstreaming of INSPIRE Plenary Sessions
Monday 23 June - Tuesday 24 June

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Re: Fwd: INSPIRE Conference 2008

2008-05-19T12:56:51Z

dear Benjamin, all,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 09:51:29AM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> Application rejected.
> Can we send someone to Slovenia in June?

I didn't submit a paper this year as I knew i'd be unable to travel then.
So it depends on what you mean by "we" in this context. At last year's
EC-GIS workshop of which I guess this is the successor, there were
some open source / open data "allies" who we can hope will blog this time.
I'd love to know more about what's going on at national level in terms
of implementation.

Re. drafting papers for this kind of thing, I have had a lot more luck
presenting a free/open data case as a corollary of something else
useful and above all *cost-saving* ;) - distributing very large data
sets via bittorrent, implementing "INSPIRE compliance" simply with
free software, the "neogeography" angle used to be good for this too.

I see ESRI are funding a "building INSPIRE compliant solutions" seminar
http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/esri_workshop.cfm at this
conference. Now *that* i would like to see and assess how
straightforward it will be to replicate.

cheers,

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Fwd: INSPIRE Conference 2008

2008-05-17T00:51:29Z

Application rejected.

Can we send someone to Slovenia in June?

Or ask the organisers to make a video recording?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <ec-gis@...>
Date: Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Subject: INSPIRE Conference 2008
To: bh@...

Dear Benjamin Henrion,,

Thank you for submitting your paper

PublicGeoData: State-collected Geographic Data is public property
Benjamin Henrion

to the INSPIRE Conference 2008. Unfortunately, due to the large number
of papers received we regret that we cannot include your paper in this
year's programme as an oral presentation.

We would however like to include the paper as a poster presentation.

Please let us know before the 15th May 2008 if this is acceptable to
you so that you can be included in the programme.

Thank you once again for your interest in the INSPIRE conference.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that there is a
registration fee for the workshop and if you wish to avail of the
early registration rate you should register before the 15th May 2008

I would also recommend that you book your hotel accommodation before
the 15th May 2008.

Karen Fullerton

http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/

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Fw: [Spanish] PSI 2008 review: Re-use of Geodata

2008-04-23T12:20:30Z

There is a review going on this year of the PSI Directive and its
impact specifically on re-use of geodata, meterological and legal data
in Europe. An early part of this is a survey of re-users of public
geodata, which was originally sent to organisations named by NMAs.
Read more in Chris Corbin's forum posting at:
http://www.epsiplus.net/forum/epsiplus_forum/re_users_of_public_sector_information_your_input_is_required
Complete the survey directly at:
http://212.114.128.211/rogator/micus/0803n_geo_psi_reuser/

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La Comision Europea hace un examen de los efectos del Directivo de
re-uso de informacion publico (2003/98/EC). Hay un cuestionario para
los que re-utilicen informacion geografico publico.

Leer mas:
http://www.epsiplus.net/forum/epsiplus_forum/re_users_of_public_sector_information_your_input_is_required
http://www.epsiplus.net/news/european_psi_survey_underway

Ir directamente al cuestionario (en ingles):
http://212.114.128.211/rogator/micus/0803n_geo_psi_reuser/

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Fw: [OSM-legal-talk] Spanish Order of Ministry

2008-04-09T09:56:52Z

IGN Spain open data for non-commercial use, this is a terrific start.
(IGN are the closest Ordnance Survey moral equivalent here)
It's worth looking at this alongside the recent study on the
social-economic benefits of participation in data sharing
infrastructure in Catalunya for a sense of the policy progress towards
public geodata in Spain (at least, in parts of it!).
http://www.epsiplus.net/news/socio_economic_impact_of_sdi

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Reply-To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk@...>

Good news, everyone!

I think I must be dreaming today. This is too good news to be true.

An Order of Ministry was issued yesterday:

http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/doc.php?coleccion=indilex&id=2008/06229&txtlen=1000

Basically, it is the data policy for the geo information made by the
spanish national mapping agency (IGN). And it looks very, very nice.

I really have to discuss the wording with a local lawyer. As far as I
understand it, some of the data is available on an attribution-only basis;
the whole rest is available for non-commercial uses.

Anyway, this is still good news even if the data is for non-commercial
uses. Take that, NMA's with restrictive licesing! :-P

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Re: Inpsire conference: call for papers

2008-03-31T03:24:27Z

The deadline for submitting papers is today.

I will submit something for the PublicGeoData initiative.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@...> wrote:

> Benjamin Henrion ha scritto:
>
> > We should go there:
> >
> > http://egip.jrc.it/200803/2129.html
> >
> > Should I apply for a paper?
> >
> I think it would be good to present something from unified European
> GFOSS communities. GFOSS.it will be happy to contribute.
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> Noi ci troviamo con parecchie difficoltà con NGI http://www.ngi.it/
>

Re: Inpsire conference: call for papers

2008-03-30T23:02:29Z

Benjamin Henrion ha scritto:
> We should go there:
>
> http://egip.jrc.it/200803/2129.html
>
> Should I apply for a paper?
>
I think it would be good to present something from unified European
GFOSS communities. GFOSS.it will be happy to contribute.
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Inpsire conference: call for papers

2008-03-30T04:59:01Z

We should go there:

http://egip.jrc.it/200803/2129.html

Should I apply for a paper?

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INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Discovery and View Services

2007-12-18T04:07:54Z

From INSPIRE web site:

INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Discovery and View Services [1] is now available for public view and for comments from SDICs and LMOs.
With the Implementing Rules, comes the first draft of the INSPIRE Network Services Architecture [2] defining the overall technical framework for each of the Network Service Implementing Rules.

The deadline for submission of comments is 18 February 2008 24:00 CET.

[1] http://inspire.jrc.it/reports/ImplementingRules/network/D3.7_Draft_IR_Discovery_and_View_Services_v2.0.pdf
[2] http://inspire.jrc.it/reports/ImplementingRules/network/D3%205_INSPIRE_NS_Architecture_v2.0.pdf

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Re: Fw: Re: Consultation in INSPIRE metadata

2007-12-17T01:25:10Z

Jo Walsh ha scritto:
> How can that be done outside the ISO system?

Jo, I guess these modifications (if adopted) will bring CEN TC 287 to profile existing EN-ISO-19115 and EN-ISO-19119 normes (and also 19139 ??).
So NOT outside the ISO system.

Here parts of minutes from the last CENTC 287 "WG5" meeting (november):

Resolution 124 [1] write scenario's for supporteing the INSPIRE Implementing rules.
Once EC approves IR's we should consider standardization a.s.a.p.
We already have a 19115, we cannot have two different standards saying different things. So we may need a European annex to 19115.
MMI DC has made CWA's [2]. CEN/TC 287 could take the DC documents that have geographic information in and make them into a CEN TR.

[1] CEN TC 287 - june 2007
[2] ftp://ftp.cenorm.be/PUBLIC/CWAs/e-Europe/MMI-DC/cwa14857-00-2003-Nov.pdf

pg

2007/12/16, Jo Walsh <jo@...>:

Original got caught by mailman, didn't see it in geo-discuss moderate list.
Interesting, though maybe more so for the dedicated standards-wankers
than the gonzo lobbyists among us. Circling on...

----- Forwarded message from " andre@..." <andre@...> -----

The metadata consultation uses an Microsoft excel form that ressembles
those common by the international standards organisation. Some of you
may object that file format but it is the only one they accept.
Compatibility with ISO 26300:2006 could be sought in that matter if felt
important.

I was confused by the consideration of the existing standard ISO 19115
that the inspire metadata project aims to "revise".
How can that be done outside the ISO system? See also section 2.4: "The
European Commission shall establish, in collaboration with stakeholders
and relevant standardisation organisations, detailed guidelines and
instructions for implementation to ensure interoperability of metadata.
These will include instructions on how the European standards EN ISO
19115 and EN ISO 19119 shall be used to disseminate INSPIRE metadata,
should one chose to use these standards." -- Of course ISO standards
are international standards, not European ones. So why not just apply
ISO 19115?

I had a closer look at the Inspire metadata spec today, some quick
observations:
a) ed: no destinction between normative and informative sections of the
spec or between spec and annex, annex should be merged.
b) use of dublin core?
c) references to standard requirements in the annex without proper
references
d) "limitations" - fields are mandatory, 2.2.9
e) no explicit EIF 1.0 framework compatibility reference which should be
considered to get added to section 2.4.
f) no support chains of CC licensing models
g) access fee does not belong in the document, only associated
permissions or rights conferred
h) ed: p.1. "EU-Commission" as publisher, source is too general and
misleading.
i) tech: the spec mentions "free text", char sets are not specified. It
is recommended to apply UTF8
j) Drafters in some parts refer to ISO 8601, in other parts they do not
or aim to develop their own format. See also *EN 28601:1992*
k) gen: consider to take ISO 14721:2003 (OAIS) into account.
l) gen: open questions about the maintenance regime

Jo Walsh schrieb:
>I don't see any contact details, or any background as to how the
>members of the workgroup identified a range of standards as "fake".
>
Actually there are right now two different efforts to address the topic
of open standardization.
One is the working group, another one is Digital Standard (digistan), a
new organisation
we set up. The main concern is openness of the standard process and
addressing the issue of
vendor capture, not particular standards. We are also involved with DIS
29500 discussions.
>I'm also surprised to see so many ISO standards clearly identified as
>"open" and "inclusive", and to see the FFII offering this
>justification of the ISO's pay-to-play policy: [[ But specification
>itself could cost a fair amount of money (ie. 100-400Eur per copy as
>in ISO because copyright and publication of the document itself).]]
>
Usually it is no real problem. However, some of us considered cc
licensing models as criteria
which would exclude certain standards. "Free spec" is really a totally
different demand and not
the crucial one. The underlying issue is how to finance the standard
process. Fees are limitations
on the disseminationof the standard and should be kept to the bare
minimum. But spec costs are
less crucial than limitations on the use of the spec. Our main concern
is the market neutrality of
the standard.

//Andre

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Fw: Re: Consultation in INSPIRE metadata

2007-12-16T13:28:09Z

Original got caught by mailman, didn't see it in geo-discuss moderate list.
Interesting, though maybe more so for the dedicated standards-wankers
than the gonzo lobbyists among us. Circling on...

----- Forwarded message from "andre@..." <andre@...> -----

The metadata consultation uses an Microsoft excel form that ressembles
those common by the international standards organisation. Some of you
may object that file format but it is the only one they accept.
Compatibility with ISO 26300:2006 could be sought in that matter if felt
important.

I was confused by the consideration of the existing standard ISO 19115
that the inspire metadata project aims to "revise".
How can that be done outside the ISO system? See also section 2.4: "The
European Commission shall establish, in collaboration with stakeholders
and relevant standardisation organisations, detailed guidelines and
instructions for implementation to ensure interoperability of metadata.
These will include instructions on how the European standards EN ISO
19115 and EN ISO 19119 shall be used to disseminate INSPIRE metadata,
should one chose to use these standards." -- Of course ISO standards
are international standards, not European ones. So why not just apply
ISO 19115?

I had a closer look at the Inspire metadata spec today, some quick
observations:
a) ed: no destinction between normative and informative sections of the
spec or between spec and annex, annex should be merged.
b) use of dublin core?
c) references to standard requirements in the annex without proper
references
d) "limitations" - fields are mandatory, 2.2.9
e) no explicit EIF 1.0 framework compatibility reference which should be
considered to get added to section 2.4.
f) no support chains of CC licensing models
g) access fee does not belong in the document, only associated
permissions or rights conferred
h) ed: p.1. "EU-Commission" as publisher, source is too general and
misleading.
i) tech: the spec mentions "free text", char sets are not specified. It
is recommended to apply UTF8
j) Drafters in some parts refer to ISO 8601, in other parts they do not
or aim to develop their own format. See also *EN 28601:1992*
k) gen: consider to take ISO 14721:2003 (OAIS) into account.
l) gen: open questions about the maintenance regime

Jo Walsh schrieb:
>I don't see any contact details, or any background as to how the
>members of the workgroup identified a range of standards as "fake".
>
Actually there are right now two different efforts to address the topic
of open standardization.
One is the working group, another one is Digital Standard (digistan), a
new organisation
we set up. The main concern is openness of the standard process and
addressing the issue of
vendor capture, not particular standards. We are also involved with DIS
29500 discussions.
>I'm also surprised to see so many ISO standards clearly identified as
>"open" and "inclusive", and to see the FFII offering this
>justification of the ISO's pay-to-play policy: [[ But specification
>itself could cost a fair amount of money (ie. 100-400Eur per copy as
>in ISO because copyright and publication of the document itself).]]
>
Usually it is no real problem. However, some of us considered cc
licensing models as criteria
which would exclude certain standards. "Free spec" is really a totally
different demand and not
the crucial one. The underlying issue is how to finance the standard
process. Fees are limitations
on the disseminationof the standard and should be kept to the bare
minimum. But spec costs are
less crucial than limitations on the use of the spec. Our main concern
is the market neutrality of
the standard.

//Andre

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Re: Consultation in INSPIRE metadata

2007-12-12T09:30:09Z

Jo+others,
I prepared a draft xsl table with my comments to Draft3.
You may download it here:
http://www.freegis-italia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=48

Feel free to:
- reuse it
- provide me extra comments

pg

2007/12/8, Jo Walsh <jo@...>:

dear Benjamin, thankyou for reminding us all that the deadline on the
INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules consultation is 21st Dec, Just
over two weeks from now.

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:34:26PM +0100, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/
> Inspire is the geodata directive of the EU. Benjamin Henrion was very
> active here. They propose metadata scheme and request input.

Piergiorgio's last email on this subject has more detailed backgroun,
links, and a quick breakdown of the key points of interest.
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2007-October/000342.html
I have written a bit recently about the updated metadata rules
(*not* a schema/format, but a set of properties and restrictions
on those properties, binding in law) below, but this is more an opinion
piece than a detailed analysis, re-looking at the Directive itself.
http://www.terradue.com/news/_news.asp?id=22

As this is a public consultation I've made no effort to collect
contributions from the broader open source (geo)informatics community
as was done during the last round of consultation. But I hope when the
Network Services draft Rules come out (currently scheduled for
January) we can repeat the process that went on at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Response_to_INSPIRE_Metadata_Draft

I didn't know that FFII had an "open standards" activity and interest
group. Can you tell us a bit more about what it is doing to help
those of us working with open source and open data to help ourselves?
I see the outline at http://action.ffii.org/openstandards -
I don't see any contact details, or any background as to how the
members of the workgroup identified a range of standards as "fake".

I'm also surprised to see so many ISO standards clearly identified as
"open" and "inclusive", and to see the FFII offering this
justification of the ISO's pay-to-play policy: [[ But specification
itself could cost a fair amount of money (ie. 100-400Eur per copy as
in ISO because copyright and publication of the document itself).]]

??

cheers,

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Re: Consultation in INSPIRE metadata

2007-12-08T07:47:20Z

dear Benjamin, thankyou for reminding us all that the deadline on the
INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules consultation is 21st Dec, Just
over two weeks from now.

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:34:26PM +0100, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/
> Inspire is the geodata directive of the EU. Benjamin Henrion was very
> active here. They propose metadata scheme and request input.

Piergiorgio's last email on this subject has more detailed backgroun,
links, and a quick breakdown of the key points of interest.
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2007-October/000342.html
I have written a bit recently about the updated metadata rules
(*not* a schema/format, but a set of properties and restrictions
on those properties, binding in law) below, but this is more an opinion
piece than a detailed analysis, re-looking at the Directive itself.
http://www.terradue.com/news/_news.asp?id=22

As this is a public consultation I've made no effort to collect
contributions from the broader open source (geo)informatics community
as was done during the last round of consultation. But I hope when the
Network Services draft Rules come out (currently scheduled for
January) we can repeat the process that went on at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Response_to_INSPIRE_Metadata_Draft

I didn't know that FFII had an "open standards" activity and interest
group. Can you tell us a bit more about what it is doing to help
those of us working with open source and open data to help ourselves?
I see the outline at http://action.ffii.org/openstandards -
I don't see any contact details, or any background as to how the
members of the workgroup identified a range of standards as "fake".

I'm also surprised to see so many ISO standards clearly identified as
"open" and "inclusive", and to see the FFII offering this
justification of the ISO's pay-to-play policy: [[ But specification
itself could cost a fair amount of money (ie. 100-400Eur per copy as
in ISO because copyright and publication of the document itself).]]

??

cheers,

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Consultation in INSPIRE metadata

2007-12-06T12:34:26Z

----- Forwarded message from André Rebentisch <andre@...> -----

From: André Rebentisch <andre@...>
To: Open Standards in general at FFII <openstandards@...>,
Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion@...>
Subject: Consultation in INSPIRE metadata
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:33:27 +0100
Message-ID: <47585C97.4070703@...>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022)

http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/

Inspire is the geodata directive of the EU. Benjamin Henrion was very
active here. They propose metadata scheme and request input.

deadline 21. Dec

//Andre

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2007-11-10T04:03:24Z

Fwd: [SDI-Europe] INSPIRE Technical Architecture - overview document published

2007-11-09T08:59:26Z

sorry for cross-posting

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Subject: [SDI-Europe] INSPIRE Technical Architecture - overview document published
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http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/ImplementingRules/network/INSPIRETechnicalArchitectureOverview_v1.2.pdf

INSPIRE Technical Architecture - overview document published

This document provides an overview of the current understanding of the
technical architecture of INSPIRE. It introduces the required elements within the
infrastructure, their relationships and the responsible party for drafting the
relevant technical specification. This is work-in-progress and it may change as a
result of future progress.
This document is intended to support the discussion within and between the
Drafting Teams as well as help SDICs and LMOs understand the context of the
different documents created by the Drafting Teams and to be sent to SDICs and
LMOs for consultation.

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Re: Fw: INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata open for public consultation.

2007-10-30T07:00:13Z

Did you have a look at those docs?
Here some differences between Draft2 and Draft3:

draft 3 has been produced by EC (on the base of DT document [draft 2] and +1200 comments received
draft 3 aims to be The Implementing Rule itself: it just contains mandatory elements
annexes included in draft2 are / will be informative
there is not the distinction (draft2) between "discovery", "evaluation" and "use"
there is not the distiction (draft2) between Level1 and Level2: now we have two list of elements, the first for "dataset and series metadata", the second for "service metadata"
elements derive from EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
two new codelist have been added:

IR_ServiceClassificationCode contains a more detailed taxonomy for ServiceType
IR_ConformityDegreeCode, contains values for "conformity degree"

One interesting topic: now Conditions applying to access and use contains also "fees" element (299 fees).

pg

2007/10/28, Jo Walsh <jo@...>:

dear all,

The second-round draft of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules has now gone
into fully-public consultation. This means comments don't have to go back
through an SDIC/LMO, as before. The consultation ends on the 21st December.
http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/ImplementingRules/INSPIRE_Metadata_ImplementingRule_v3_20071026.pdf

What I've heard is that there was notable negative feedback from SDICs
that the line between 'normative' and 'informative' rules was too
blurry, so the draft has been chopped right down and a lot of the
appendices dealing with mappings to Dublin Core, ISO19115, etc,
have been dropped and will be published as "complementary" later.

Quick! Into the INSPIRE-compliance-o-matic-mobile!

jo

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   The INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata (version 3) are
now
   available for public view and comments. The call for comments is
open for
   a period of eight weeks, until 21 December 2007. Only comments
received by
   the deadline using the template provided will be considered. At the
end of
   this phase of public consultation, the Commission will elaborate a
revised
   proposal and submit it to the Regulatory Committee as required by
the
   Directive.

   Please see
   [1]http://www.ec- gis.org/inspire/public_consultations/metadata/index.cfm

   Additional Material provided as part of this consultation include:

   * List of all the comments received to the previous draft
   * Implementing
     Rule (Version 2) published in February 2007, together with action
     proposed by the Drafting Team Metadata on each comment
   * Synthesis of comments prepared by the Drafting Team Metadata and
     recommendations to the Commission
   * Documentation of the major changes introduced in Version 3 of the
     Implementing Rule by the Commission compared to V ersion 2

     As an additional informative document, the relation between the
proposed
     implementing rule and the European standards EN ISO 19115 and EN
ISO
     19119 is also available. This is an initial document that will be
     developed further in consultation with the stakeholders and
relevant
     standardization organisations.

     Further documents explaining the relationship to other standards
such as
     Dublin Core, and guidelines for the implementation of the
Metadata
     Implementing Rules  will be published at a later date.
     Best regards,
     The INSPIRE team

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Fw: INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata open for public consultation.

2007-10-28T03:22:32Z

dear all,

The second-round draft of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules has now gone
into fully-public consultation. This means comments don't have to go back
through an SDIC/LMO, as before. The consultation ends on the 21st December.
http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/ImplementingRules/INSPIRE_Metadata_ImplementingRule_v3_20071026.pdf

What I've heard is that there was notable negative feedback from SDICs
that the line between 'normative' and 'informative' rules was too
blurry, so the draft has been chopped right down and a lot of the
appendices dealing with mappings to Dublin Core, ISO19115, etc,
have been dropped and will be published as "complementary" later.

Quick! Into the INSPIRE-compliance-o-matic-mobile!

jo

----- Forwarded message from inspire-info@... -----

The INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata (version 3) are
now
available for public view and comments. The call for comments is
open for
a period of eight weeks, until 21 December 2007. Only comments
received by
the deadline using the template provided will be considered. At the
end of
this phase of public consultation, the Commission will elaborate a
revised
proposal and submit it to the Regulatory Committee as required by
the
Directive.

Please see
[1]http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/public_consultations/metadata/index.cfm

Additional Material provided as part of this consultation include:

* List of all the comments received to the previous draft
* Implementing
Rule (Version 2) published in February 2007, together with action
proposed by the Drafting Team Metadata on each comment
* Synthesis of comments prepared by the Drafting Team Metadata and
recommendations to the Commission
* Documentation of the major changes introduced in Version 3 of the
Implementing Rule by the Commission compared to V ersion 2

As an additional informative document, the relation between the
proposed
implementing rule and the European standards EN ISO 19115 and EN
ISO
19119 is also available. This is an initial document that will be
developed further in consultation with the stakeholders and
relevant
standardization organisations.

Further documents explaining the relationship to other standards
such as
Dublin Core, and guidelines for the implementation of the
Metadata
Implementing Rules will be published at a later date.
Best regards,
The INSPIRE team

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Re: Fw: Free online access to Irish environmental data

2007-10-18T07:00:50Z

Another major addition was of course the AND software company donating all
of their map data of the Netherlands to Open Street Map (see below). Next
up, so the AND people stated, will be full China data (!), and maybe later
other countries too... This news appeared on several media (see eg .below),
but I don't recall seeing it at this forum...

__
Barend Köbben
International Institute for Geo-information
Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC)
PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands)
ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335

From http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223 :

AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap

Automotive Navigation Data (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing,
mapping and address management are donating a street network of the entire
Netherlands. Yes, an entire country.

This is basically phenomenal.

We¹ll have our first country complete from this data, which AND and I want
to work with the community to import. This is not least because fantastic
work has already been done in Amsterdam and elsewhere by the Digital
Pioneers supported openstreetmap netherlands community. AND will be at the
State of the Map, and you should be too :-)

Here¹s the press release:

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2007-10-18T06:38:18Z

This is heartening news, massive "free dissemination" of
state-collected geodata in Ireland...

----- Forwarded message from Roger Longhorn <ral@...> -----

Thanks to Darius Bartlett for the heads up on this from Ireland.

Kind regards

Roger Longhorn
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=======

Ryan announces free online access to Departmental spatial data
?Natural resource deposit locations, licence areas & groundwater
information now available online?

Dublin, 17 October 2007

Minister Eamon Ryan today announced that he would be making the bulk of
the digital data held in the Department of Communications, Energy and
Natural Resources available to people freely and easily online.

More than 5Tb of spatial data will now be made available for free
download. These services will be made available via the Department?s
website and the University sector?s internet backbone, the HEAnet.

Commenting on the announcement Minister Ryan said, ?The free
dissemination of this data is intended to stimulate the environmental,
exploration, construction, and geoscience sectors. Some of the data
could prove very useful for companies exploring for oil and gas
resources for example. It will also provide important data for planners
in achieving sustainable and responsible development and assist in the
planning of major infrastructure projects.?

The bulk of the Department?s spatial data is within the Natural
Resources sector, and initial datasets available will include licence
boundaries and drill hole locations from the Petroleum Affairs Division,
significant deposit locations and prospecting licence areas from
Exploration and Mining Division and a wide range of marine, bedrock
geology, soil, groundwater, mineral and geotechnical data from the
Geological Survey of Ireland as well as the Marine Institute.

Additional spatial datasets will come from the Department?s Engineering
Division, whose coastal photos are collected for coastal protections
work. The offshore datasets collected by the Department?s and Marine
Institute?s joint sea bed mapping projects, the Irish National Seabed
Survey, and its successor INFOMAR will also be made available.

?This project is an important component of an overall plan to make
Ireland an internationally renowned destination for geoscience research.
The Government has committed to investing a total of ?43 million over
the next seven years in the geoscience sector and I hope to soon see
many more exciting new geoscience projects that could potentially
transform our lives,? concluded Minister Ryan.

ENDS
For further media information, please contact:-

* Brid McGrath, Press Advisor: Office +353 1 678 2440 / Mobile: 087
770 8631
* Ken Cleary, Press Officer: Office +353 1 678 2441 / Mobile: 087
905 9618
* Email: press.office@...

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