An Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive to Members of the ENVI Committee in the European Parliament was published by Public Geodata yesterday. OKFN has been providing support resources to Public Geodata as part of the Open Geodata awareness raising effort, and Rufus has been doing a fantastic job of sanitising our rhetoric for official consumption.

Excited coverage on boingboing.net got a lot more people coming to sign the petition, which is really great. I talk a bit more on the Mapping Hacks blog about recent coverage of the issue and related awareness efforts.

Related posts:

  1. Collaborative and public geodata Chris Holmes’ words on “Why
  2. Why open geodata in an open source software foundation? I was lucky enough to be able to attend
  3. How to Develop Geodata Domain Models Jo Walsh (who’s also a member of t
  4. Copyright not applicable to geodata? Over the last couple of weeks, I’v
  5. Public Geospatial Data and the OSGeo Foundation I admit that I vacillated for a while ov

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Leave a Reply

Subscribe without commenting