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

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:37:33PM -0600, Pericles S. Nacionales wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 February 2006 07:37, Allan Doyle wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I would also be interested in participating in the open data project.  I 
> really like the idea of a shared data repository.  Having a page that 
> redirect users to available open datasets (e.g., CleanTOPO, Natural Earth, 
> etc.) would be a good start, IMO.
> 
Perry,

I have added you to our list. We'll come up with more details soon.

thanks,

 Markus

PS: BTW: EU Citizens may read and sign here:
    http://rejectinspire.publicgeodata.org/