[Fwd: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data in the US/Canada]

[Jan Hartmann]

Folks,

Ed McNierny, who of course is a prime example of a small firm doing big 
things with MapServer, sent me the following note. Can anyone from 
Canada give me any pointers to this policy change in Canada regarding 
royalties and licences op topographic maps? It's probably very important 
for our discussions over here in Europe

Jan

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data 
in the US/Canada
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:30:10 -0400
From: Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com>
To: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>

Jan -

Just for completeness, I should explain that TopoZone uses three major data
sets - topographic maps, aerial photos, and street maps - that are all
produced by the U. S. Federal government as public domain data.  We have
long been interested in providing a similar topographic mapping service for
Canada; as the Canadian government has recently changed its
royalty/licensing policy for topographic maps, it is finally (8 years later)
possible for us to do that.

      - Ed

Ed McNierney
TopoZone.com


> From: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:54:56 +0200
> To: Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com>
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data in the
> US/Canada
> 
> Ed, how on earth could I forget you! Of course you are a magnificent
> example of a small firm based on Open Source and public data.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jan
> 
> Ed McNierney wrote:
>> Jan -
>> 
>> I'm not completely certain of your description, but it sounds like TopoZone
>> fits (www.topozone.com) and we've certainly got lots of data online.  We
>> serve about 500,000 maps and aerial photos per day; and there aren't many
>> firms that can claim they are smaller than the two of us!
>> 
>>      - Ed
>> 
>> Ed McNierney
>> TopoZone.com
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at UVA.NL>
>>> Reply-To: Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at UVA.NL>
>>> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:33:26 +0200
>>> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>>> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver sites with public map data in the
>>> US/Canada
>>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> For a German-Dutch funding proposal I am looking for Mapserver sites in
>>> the US and Canada that are based on maps which are not publicly
>>> available here in Europe, especially cadastral and large scale
>>> topographical maps. Preferebly these sites should be developed by small
>>> independent firms. A good example is Rich Greenwood's Teton County Map
>>> Server (http://www2.tetonwyo.org/mapserver/). I vaguely remember a
>>> housing server for New York, and a very large system for Portland City,
>>> but all pointers are welcome. We are trying to convince our local
>>> bigwigs that it can be profitable to make these data publicly available,
>>> both for government and for small to medium-sized firms. Those maps are
>>> completely monopolized by government and big business over here.
>>> 
>>> Please send me personally any pointers you can think of, and I'll
>>> summarize them for the list.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Jan
>>> 
>>> Dr. J. Hartmann
>>> Department of Geography
>>> University of Amsterdam
>> 
>>