[Geodata] Rebooting this committee

[Hamish]

Seven wrote:
> 0. Whatever already works in this committee should not be interrupted by
> these new ideas. There has been considerable work on creating vector and
> data repositories and services. I am widely ignorant of what the status
> of these activities is.

checkitout-
  http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/nc_dataset_overview.html


> 2. Rename "Public Geospatial Data Committee" to "Geodata". It is the
> shortest and broadest we can get at the same time. And we will make sure
> that we do not lose "public" and "open".

[maybe Markus remembers where this image originated?]

 "Public Geodata: State collected geographic information is public property"

I think that sums up well the point of the prior focus of the group.


best,
Hamish


ps- what's up in New Zealand: the gov't's geospatial office has released
much of the countries geodata under CC-By-* license; efforts are underway
to upload it in a sane and managed way to OpenStreetMap and its forks:
  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ
(the gov't is even helping to fund that)
much of the data can be gotten from http://www.koordiantes.com
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