[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Discuss Digest, Vol 37, Issue 21 - Open Source for Utility Companies

[Alicia Farag]

All, I am looking for similar information on opportunities for open source data and applications that the utility industry could use.  I too am putting together a proposal related to leveraging other people's data and opportunities for sharing and collaboration within the utility industry.  Any information on current initiatives or general information resources would be appreciated.

Regards,
Alicia


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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:43:32 -0600
From: "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data
        practicesand how it help to foster collaboration.
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All,

Thanks for all the links to information, I've got a pretty good list of Federal initiatives, now I'm after more localized efforts, something at the City or Municipal level.  Really it can be anything related to making government (geospatial) data available to the masses and why it makes sense.

I will post my (short) write-up here as well.

Thanks again.

bobb



>>> Haris Kurtagic <haris at sl-king.com> wrote:

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>

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, ( 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.


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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