[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Introduce myself and my projects

[Gary Lang]

Ah, Jo Walsh. Got it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Doyle [mailto:adoyle at eogeo.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:38 AM
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Introduce myself and my projects


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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