Introduce myself and my projects

[Allan Doyle]

On Feb 12, 2006, at 10:22, Philip Mark Donaghy wrote:

>
> I would like to get involved in a MapServer project that facilitates
> the creation of spatial data from gps receivers.
>

There's already an open data project in the foundation, although we  
still have to formalize it. Nominally Jo Walsh and I are co-chairs of  
this. The initial idea is to make the open data project be a  
gathering place for existing projects, rather than a full-blown, new  
open data initiative. You might also want to look at the project at  
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ which is an example of a project we'd  
like to include in the open data project.

> ...

> I would also like to create/assist in a project for a shared
> geospatial data repository targeted at governments creating data. For
> this to be valuable and interesting to users the datasets would be
> validated and modified by real people given privileged access to
> editing the data or a copy of the data. The idea would be to create
> branches and the ability to merge just like a source code revision
> system.

This might be the next kind of thing the open data committee would  
want to tackle. How we do that is still open. It could be that as a  
committee we parcel things out to the existing open data projects, or  
perhaps band together to set up an osgeo repository.

	Allan

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