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

[Andy Turner]

Hi,

In the UK, you can see this happening from:
http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/

Best wishes,

Andy
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From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Haris Kurtagic [haris at sl-king.com]
Sent: 16 January 2010 09:23
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.

I really like presentation from Jason Birch from City of Nanaimo about reasons to open data and how to do it. http://www.slideshare.net/JasonBirch/moving-beyond-the-desk
<http://www.slideshare.net/JasonBirch/moving-beyond-the-desk>Don't forget to look at notes too, I did forgot first time.

Haris

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us<mailto:Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>> wrote:

All,


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,<UrlBlockedError.aspx> 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.


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.


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.


Thanks for any pointers on this.


bobb




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