<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><BR>
Publishing data would be consistent with Presidents open government initiative<BR>
<BR>
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/</a><BR>
<BR>
-joel<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On 1/15/10 1:11 PM, "Bob Basques" <<a href="Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>> wrote:<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>All,</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our datasets to the public. We currently have about 30 GIS data layers available to the public<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><I><U>,</U></I></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <<a href="http://,">http://,</a>> </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> with ~170 layers that are not public. While there are some layers that won't be made available for security or licensing issues, there are many that the owners of simply don't want to make available.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal that might sway some of the folks sitting on datasets internally to get them to publish the data to the masses and need points of reasoning to point them at.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>I already have some info related to general practices moving towards this type of data availability, and some of the recent threads on the OSGEO lists about data licensing would likely come into play as well. </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Thanks for any pointers on this.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>bobb</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><FONT FACE="Consolas, Courier New, Courier">_______________________________________________<BR>
Discuss mailing list<BR>
<a href="Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><BR>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><BR>
</FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><FONT FACE="Consolas, Courier New, Courier"><BR>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
-joel<BR>
<BR>
---- <BR>
Joel D. Schlagel<BR>
U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources<BR>
<a href="http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil">http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>