[Geo4All] Can anyone please update on OSGeo interactions with GEO?

[Gilberto Camara]

Dear Suchith

I have no information about the relationship of OSGEO and GEO, which would
be a good thing to happen. On the positive side, the use of open source
tools such as QGIS, R, and PostGIS is now spread worldwide, and OSGEO
already does a strong jog of advocating for  FOSS4GIS. Despite important
advances in policy, the main problem of GEO continues to be data access.
Although the open data policies are now being adopted worldwide, access to
the data continues to be a painful process. With a few exceptions (such as
NASA's MODIS), the access to analysis-ready data continues to be a problem.

Best
Gilberto

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 at 12:34 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I vaguely remember some discussions in one of the OSGeo mailing lists some
> time back  planning to apply for Participating Organisation (PO) in Group
> on Earth Observations (GEO) [1] . Can someone who knows on this please
> update on this. Did OSGeo apply or was it just a discussion ideas. Who was
> the main contact leading this?
>
>
> I will appreciate info on this as I am new to GEO. I have been nominated
> to Program Board of GEO and I will be attending the PB meeting in Geneva
> later this month, so I am trying to learn as much info. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
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> [1] https://www.earthobservations.org/
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gilberto Camara
National Institute for Space Research, INPE, Brazil
http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto
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