[Fwd: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data in the US/Canada]

[Jan Hartmann]

Found this link, which explains it all:

http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=118


Jan Hartmann wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Ed McNierny, who of course is a prime example of a small firm doing big 
> things with MapServer, sent me the following note. Can anyone from 
> Canada give me any pointers to this policy change in Canada regarding 
> royalties and licences op topographic maps? It's probably very important 
> for our discussions over here in Europe
> 
> Jan
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data 
> in the US/Canada
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:30:10 -0400
> From: Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com>
> To: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>
> 
> Jan -
> 
> Just for completeness, I should explain that TopoZone uses three major data
> sets - topographic maps, aerial photos, and street maps - that are all
> produced by the U. S. Federal government as public domain data.  We have
> long been interested in providing a similar topographic mapping service for
> Canada; as the Canadian government has recently changed its
> royalty/licensing policy for topographic maps, it is finally (8 years 
> later)
> possible for us to do that.
> 
>      - Ed
> 
> Ed McNierney
> TopoZone.com
> 
> 
>> From: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:54:56 +0200
>> To: Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com>
>> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map 
>> data in the
>> US/Canada
>>
>> Ed, how on earth could I forget you! Of course you are a magnificent
>> example of a small firm based on Open Source and public data.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> Ed McNierney wrote:
>>> Jan -
>>>
>>> I'm not completely certain of your description, but it sounds like 
>>> TopoZone
>>> fits (www.topozone.com) and we've certainly got lots of data online.  We
>>> serve about 500,000 maps and aerial photos per day; and there aren't 
>>> many
>>> firms that can claim they are smaller than the two of us!
>>>
>>>      - Ed
>>>
>>> Ed McNierney
>>> TopoZone.com
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at UVA.NL>
>>>> Reply-To: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at UVA.NL>
>>>> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:33:26 +0200
>>>> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>>>> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data 
>>>> in the
>>>> US/Canada
>>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> For a German-Dutch funding proposal I am looking for Mapserver sites in
>>>> the US and Canada that are based on maps which are not publicly
>>>> available here in Europe, especially cadastral and large scale
>>>> topographical maps. Preferebly these sites should be developed by small
>>>> independent firms. A good example is Rich Greenwood's Teton County Map
>>>> Server (http://www2.tetonwyo.org/mapserver/). I vaguely remember a
>>>> housing server for New York, and a very large system for Portland City,
>>>> but all pointers are welcome. We are trying to convince our local
>>>> bigwigs that it can be profitable to make these data publicly 
>>>> available,
>>>> both for government and for small to medium-sized firms. Those maps are
>>>> completely monopolized by government and big business over here.
>>>>
>>>> Please send me personally any pointers you can think of, and I'll
>>>> summarize them for the list.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>> Dr. J. Hartmann
>>>> Department of Geography
>>>> University of Amsterdam
>>>
>>>
>