[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.

[Schlagel, Joel D IWR]

Publishing data would be consistent with Presidents open government
initiative

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/

-joel


On 1/15/10 1:11 PM, "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

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>  I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our
> datasets to the public.  We currently have about 30 GIS data layers available
> to the public, <http://,>  with ~170 layers that are not public.  While there
> are some layers that won't be made available for security or licensing issues,
> there are many that the owners of simply don't want to make available.
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>  I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal that might sway
> some of the folks sitting on datasets internally to get them to publish the
> data to the masses and need points of reasoning to point them at.
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>  I already have some info related to general practices moving towards this
> type of data availability, and some of the recent threads on the OSGEO lists
> about data licensing would likely come into play as well.
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>  Thanks for any pointers on this.
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-joel

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Joel D. Schlagel
U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil


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