[Geodata] OSGeo GeoData Announcement?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

Should/could the geodata committee craft an announcement OSGeo can publish
around the report Schuyler talks about here?

http://mappinghacks.com/2008/03/13/osgb-business-model-bashed-by-govt-sponsored-report/

The report seems credible and supports OSGeo's position that governments
ought to be provide some geospatial basemap data for free.  So lets get some
leverage out of it.  If someone can prepare a post and send it to
news_item at osgeo.org I'll take care of posting it and sending it to the
announce list.

Best regards,
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