[Geodata] Rebooting this committee

[Arnulf Christl]

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On 07/30/2012 12:43 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
> (resending, after subscribing to the list)

Thanks Puneet.

> On Jul 30, 2012, at 6:40 AM, "Seven (aka Arnulf)"
> <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
> 
>> 2. Rename "Public Geospatial Data Committee" to "Geodata". It is 
>> the shortest and broadest we can get at the same time. And we
>> will make sure that we do not lose "public" and "open".
> 
> "Public" => supported by public monies, may or may not be open
> "Open" => opposite of closed, may or may not be public
> 
> Both may or may not overlap.
> 
> Just want to confirm if "Public Geospatial Data Committee" is
> indeed the focus of the newly rebooted committee. Looking back at
> the earlier thread, Arnulf had suggested "Open Geospatial Data 
> Committee."

It struck me as sensible that the mailing list is just named
"geodata". OSGeo is all about Open Source software but the very
definition of Open (...) Data is far from as well defined.
Additionally there is a lot of movement in the public administration -
in many cases from
* "I have no idea how we are licensed, but you won't get the data, get
off"
to
* "Yes, it is all free to use, commercially and proprietary, it's been
paid for already".

NZ is a great example, here a very shortened summary (correct me if
wrong):

1. They created maps. Oblivious of licensing.
2. They went a bit digital.
3. They sold the digital part to a private company.
4. They had to buy their own data back from the priv. comp. bit by bit.
5. Now it is all available and gets moved into OSM sensibly.

Others are somewhere between 1 and 5 and my hopes would be that OSGeo
can help nudge them along towards 5+.

Cheers,
Arnulf

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