[OSGeo-Discuss] time for inspire committee at osgeo?

Thu May 16 00:27:01 PDT 2013

Hi Jachym,

I am planning to visit FOSS4G this year (have to - my last one was
Lausanne!) - if we can have some sort of structure until then and try to
start with a inital event would be great.

Btw. will u be present on FOSSGIS in Rapperswil?

Marco

Am 15.05.2013 22:15, schrieb Jachym Cepicky:
> Marco, I think, das schaffen wir nicht, even I would really want to
> come, but I'm afraid, it would be difficult due to my work as well. I do
> not see any problem to continue via mailing lists/IRC.
>
> Maybe FOSS4G?
>
> Jachym
>
> Dne 15.5.2013 16:03, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. napsal(a):
>> Hi Jachym,
>>
>> I'd also like to support the idea of having a dedicated INSPIRE unit in
>> OSGeo (if it's not too late may be having a bof on FOSS4G [1] or a
>> little meeting at the FOSSGIS-Konferenz [2] in Rapperswil?).
>>
>> Marco
>>
>> chairman FOSSGIS e.V.
>> OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH
>>
>> [1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
>> [2] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
>>
>> Am 15.05.2013 14:52, schrieb Coetzee Serena:
>>> I support the idea of widening the group to SDIs in general which would be more inclusive (even if it is initiated and dominated by INSPIRE) - the use and application of open source for SDIs in developing countries is very relevant.
>>>
>>> Regards,
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>>> On 15 May 2013, at 13:56 , Rafał Wawer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jachym,
>>> A dedicated unit within OSGeo targeting INSPIRE and more broadly SDI would is IMO a great idea Jachym.
>>>
>>> I recall, I proposed OSGeo to play a role of SDIC (http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/181  ) already  good 4 years ago. :)
>>>
>>> From the user point of view, making the OSGeo desktop software INSPIRE-compliant would be a great asset - especially extending data interoperability to be able to export datasets to INSPIRE data models and automatically creates corresponding metadata.
>>>
>>> INSPIRE network services, well, at least those I know: discovery, view, download; are close to OGC WCS, WMS and WFS -  services already implemented in OSGeo software projects.
>>>
>>> Cheers:
>>> RAf
>>>
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:18 PM
>>> To: OSGeo Discussions
>>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] time for inspire committee at osgeo?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm working on some presentation about OSGeo relationship to INSPIRE directive (some preliminary czech version of presentation, which should be presented at this years INSPIRE conference [1])
>>>
>>> And it came to my mind, that OSGeo does not have any body, related to INSPIRE [2]
>>>
>>> While I agree, INSPIRE is mainly EU-only topic, I think, implementing INSPIRE has big market potential and software, which does not indicate support for INSPIRE is banned from to be used in public organizations in EU. I believe, also "rest of the world" can profit from changes, necessary to be implemented in EU.
>>>
>>> Therefore I would consider INSPIRE committee in OSGeo as important body, which would coordinate efforts of OSGeo projects towards INSPIRE, so that we could declare: OSGeo projects are INSPIRE ready or we are working on it.
>>>
>>> Any opinions to this? I'm personally usually against forming "yet another committee", but in this case, I do not see the topic to be covered and it really is important issue here.
>>>
>>> Jachym
>>>
>>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_conference_2013-paper
>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE
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