invito a verificare e, se del caso, firmare l'appello.
pc
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Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] INSPIRE directive on the way to enforce copyright
on state-collected geo data
Date: 12:11, giovedì 05 gennaio 2006
From: Jo Walsh <jo@frot.org>
To: "oceatoon@gmail.com" <oceatoon@gmail.com>
Cc: freegis-list@intevation.de
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:22:32AM +0100, oceatoon@gmail.com wrote:
Here's my 2 cents on all this and I apologise in advance if some
organisations feel concerned but they should anyway.
Starting a petition is necessary for Inspire and all other OS projects ,
but first maybe we could write once again why geoData must be public
domain in Europe because The Council really seem think headed and don't
seem to understand the prejudice caused by closing all this info into
the private sector:
http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php was my attempt, with a lot of help
from Rufus Pollock and the people on the geo-discuss list at OKFN and
the openstreetmap list, to state in a constructive way, why access to
state-collected geodata should be free. It doesn't directly address
INSPIRE, but was written with it in the background.
500+ people have signed it, from all over the world, most of them GIS
professionals, hackers and academics. I suspect many of them would be
inspired to help with a narrower more focused effort at this point.
I think there has been a feeling that INSPIRE has too many "stakes in
the ground" to have a chance of rejection; that the GIS specific
issues are too niche for enough people to care about to get enough
MEPs to listen carefully; that the strong rhetoric about caring
sharing of environmental data that prefaces INSPIRE is hard to penetrate.
but i think http://eurogeographics.org/ used to say a lot more definite
stuff about INSPIRE than it does now; it could be weakening.
"Copyfighters" who don't know from jack about GIS or the significance
of open access to geodata, *do* however care about restrictive and
unexamined use of copyright in ways that restrict the flow of civic
information. The software patents directive campaign did amazingly
well in a short time - they found ways both to speak to the hearts of
individuals and address the very genuine commercial concerns of many
small/medium business about impact on their revenues and innovative
practises. Benjamin was heavily involved in that success.
Maybe we could also start a list of european axed open source projects
where we could say why not having a european database is pulling the
hand break on our projects.
openstreetmap.org has a lot of pan-European open mapping activity now.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/OpenStreetMap:Community_Portal
-jo
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