[Aust-NZ] CommonMap in Canada

[Duncan Jackson]

Hi

 

Great idea, but it doesn't seem to like IE (surprise!)...this is the error :

 

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Timestamp: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:29:14 UTC

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URI:
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Best Regards, Duncan

 

 

From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brendan Morley
Sent: Monday, 14 March 2011 6:26 PM
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org; osgeo-bc at lists.osgeo.org;
geodata at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Sam Vekemans; Baden
Subject: [Aust-NZ] CommonMap in Canada

 

Hi all, 

I just wanted to let you know that the CommonMap initiative is still alive,
as am I. 

To recap, CommonMap will be a collaboration and repository of
liberally-licensed geodata (without share-alike) - accessible though an
OpenStreetMap-style interface.  We will accept Creative Commons Attribution,
CC0 and public domain geodata contributions, depending on your jurisdiction.
We expect it will find fresh acceptance in the "Gov 2.0" movement, since it
allows governments to redistribute contributions from the community.  We
also are quite happy to accept OpenStreetMap contributors who find
themselves dissatisfied with its default licence. 

We want to focus on a particular country at first, which is Canada.  Why? 

     * It has quite a comprehensive open data catalogue; 
     * It appears to have a compatible licence; 
     * It also has a rigorous "foreign key" model, which bodes well for
roundtripping back to government; 
     * It's the home of Refractions Research, the custodian of PostGIS which
is a good friend of mine; 
     * Finally, it helps that Sam Vekemans is our enthusiastic man on the
ground over there. 

We want to get as much of Natural Resources Canada's GeoBase and Canvec
publications into the CommonMap database as we can, and use Canada as a
showcase country for what CommonMap can uniquely do. 

The "proof of concept" API instance is currently at
http://api.development.i386.commonmap.org/ 
It is hosting an overlay of: 

     * Natural Earth Data; 
     * Some sample Geobase National Road Network, National Hydro Network and
Land Cover datasets. 

(Hint: look up Victoria, British Columbia[1] for an example of all 3
datasets together.) 


Next comes the challenge of ramping up to a public launch.  The core of
CommonMap is a web-facing API and its "one true" database, a download site
for XML full copies of that database, and a map tile server with its
optimised database.  To run this at public scale will demand about 8-10 CPU
cores and associated storage, or about US $10,000 per year. 

Let's face it, we will require a higher rate of donations to do this. If you
believe in the idea of CommonMap, a good way to show your support is to
donate to CommonMap Inc.  (CommonMap Inc is the non profit body that
operates the CommonMap internet resources.) 

Potential donors, please head this way: 
http://www.commonmap.org/page/donate 

Even if you can't spare the cash, perhaps you can spare your skills or
tools, whether they be in geodesy, obtaining or converting geodata imports,
running up database or tile servers, or developing applications?  Let us
know. 


Please feel free to forward this news to whoever you wish. 

I welcome all comments: You can make further enquires by return email, the
commonmap.org website, or "CommonMap" at LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.  Sam
Vekemans also has a group blog for CommonMap set up at Posterous. 


Thanks, 
Brendan 

[1] 
http://api.development.i386.commonmap.org/?lat=48.821
<http://api.development.i386.commonmap.org/?lat=48.821&lon=-123.574&zoom=9&l
ayers=B0000FTF> &lon=-123.574&zoom=9&layers=B0000FTF 

-- 
Brendan Morley 
President, CommonMap Inc. 
morb_au at commonmap.info 
http://commonmap.org/ 
Queensland Incorporated Association 37762 
Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn 
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