Open Access to Geospatial Data
"Maurizio Trevisani" <[email protected]>
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Coul'd you help me? Where can I find samples of licence, similar tu the ones available for open source software (GPL, MPL, and so on), for geospatial data? Is there a site similar to http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php specifically about geodata? Thanks, Maurizio Trevisani Jo Walsh wrote: >Very few world citizens enjoy open access to the information that >describes their surroundings; particularly the geospatial data >collected and brokered by their National Mapping Agencies, an >essential framework for understanding civic information of all kinds. > >* All government-collected geodata should be open, > that is, available for free distribution > and re-use under a ShareAlike license. > >* Online mapping projects creating freely reusable geodata > should offer a compatible open license. > >* Common, standard formats for describing and exchanging data > should be adopted. > >* Ultimately, all state-collected information > should be freely available, > in a structured machine-readable format. > >An open data policy has economic benefits in terms of reduced cost and >increased innovation; it facilitates e-government and citizen engagement. > >