[OSGeodata] FOIA and VMAP1 anyone?

[Chris Holmes]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear Ned, 
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Ned Horning wrote:
>> The approach I was shooting for, before running out of steam, was to focus
>> on extracting those data with no distribution restrictions except for the
>> fact that they are on CDs that have restricted data. This seems like a
>> reasonable request to me. 
> 
> Nod, this makes a lot of sense. Some OSGeo members may already have
> the necessary clearance and trusted status (thinking about Mark L.) 
> to work with restricted data, if NGA couldn't spare the 'resource' to
> do this in house but was at all sympathetic to the ideal.
> 
>> How do you suggest we continue with this? Should I post the resources I have
>> to my ftp site, post it on the wiki somewhere, or forward it to an
>> individual? 
> 
> I think that creating a VMap1_Sources page on the wiki would be a fine
> idea, covering possible contacts and what we know of current
> constraints in availability - and a VMap0_Sources one too for any 
> definite word we may get from NGA about exactly what is covered by 
> ESRI copyright there. 
>  
>> I have a few VMAP1 CDs if someone wants to play around with
>> these data.
> 
> If the VMap1 CDs you have are fully public domain, this would be a
> great thing to be able to host at telascience. There's no provision
> there yet AFAIK for open data upload facility - I definitely need to 
> do a chunk more work on metadata creation tools before we can
> get into this - but if this made sense to you, we could ask nhv/John
> to give you an account there. That's my 2c, anyway.
I may be able to have TOPP put in some time on putting some of it up 
too.  Has to be a demonstration of GeoServer, but I'm fine if we hooked 
up other OSGeo projects to it, or just dumped the database after we do 
processing.  We've already got a bunch of notes and scripts on how to 
load tiger: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Loading+TIGER+data 
  (and a bit on gnis and vmap0) And we're happy to port these to an 
OSGeo Geodata site when it's ready.

I think we should try to get a provision from telascience about open 
geodata soon though, for the massgis data as well...

best regards,

Chris

> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> jo
> 
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> 

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Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
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