[Geodata] about OSGeo geodata catalog

[David William Bitner]

Jorge,

There have been several false starts at getting a catalog going for the
OSGeo GeoData Committee.  The biggest hindrance has been that there has been
nobody in the group who truly had a need for this catalog that could really
push them to get it going and to populate it and maintain it.

I think that just about everyone agrees that it would be interesting and "a
good thing" to have an OSGeo catalog -- the only council I would like to
give is to make sure that there are enough volunteers who really have a
committment to get things to happen.  The last push for setting up
GeoNetwork was being led by Lorenzo Becchi (who I believe is part of
OSGeo-ex) and Jeroen.  They both, I believe, have access to the Telascience
servers and hopefully could be coerced into helping orient those willing to
put the effort in.  We can work with the OSGeo SAC and the folks at
Telascience on identifying an area on the servers and getting the correct
permissions set up.

I look forward to hearing more of your plans!  Please let us know whatever
we can do to help you out.

David (GeoData Chair)

2009/6/15 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas <jsanz at osgeo.org>

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> Hi
>
> I'm Jorge from OSGeo Spanish Language Local Chapter and gvSIG project.
>
> As probably you know, gvSIG is a nice SDI client supporting WxS
> services, gazetteer and metadata. One of the aims of the project is to
> support and promote SDI's and free geodata access and it's pretty
> interesting to know that one of the most successful sections of the
> official web page is the one related with free geodata[1].
>
> On the other hand, at OSGeo-es last meeting in Girona we talked about
> starting a group to catalog free geodata resources (specially WMS
> servers) and some people started a geodata group[2][3].
>
> The day after this meeting I attended a Geonetwork workshop with Jeroen
> Ticheler as instructor (anyone knows someone better?) and we talk
> briefly about having an OSGeo metadata catalog available for promoting
> these free geodata resources.
>
> My question to this committee is if an OSGeo catalog exists but no one
> is promoting it, or if it doesn't, do you think having and OSGeo
> metadata catalog for free geodata could be interesting? If you think so,
>  I would enforce my colleagues to move efforts to work on the catalog as
> a main reference for anyone asking for geodata.
>
> Well, at gvSIG we think this is an interesting initiative but we don't
> want to duplicate efforts, if OSGeo doesn't publish a catalog, gvSIG
> will try it, but before starting such work, we should ask the OSGeo
> fellows :-)
>
> Best regards
>
> [1] http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=enlaces-interes&L=2&K=1
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodatos_en_OSGeo-es (in Spanish)
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodatos_publicados (in Spanish)
>
> - --
> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
> http://es.osgeo.org
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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