[Oceania-Board] [OSGeo Oceania] Geospatial Council of Australia - thoughts?

[Martin Tomko]

Oh, sorry – you mean VGI? That was me the academic speaking - Volunteered Geographic Information, e.g., OSM, or any other geo content (e.g., Mapillary Cam data, or OpenDrone Map, or other) that is volunteered by people, as opposed to a “super” category - User Generated Content, which is any stuff that may be gathered from people out there, even unknowingly (some call this Coerced Geographic Content …)


Agreed with your other points – and this makes it quite tricky to write a good MoU 😊, but there is hope,
M.

From: Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 10:05 am
To: Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>
Cc: OSGeo Oceania Board <oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org>, OSgeo - Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Oceania-Board] [OSGeo Oceania] Geospatial Council of Australia - thoughts?
Hi Martin

Unfortunately unsurprising, I hope we can all work together to be better.

Noncompetition for grants is a great addition to an MoU, alongside preventing channeling of OSGeo, OSM, HOT etc (global) funds to non-open activities. Leading naturally to the principle of open data from open-branded activity; and hackathons resulting in PRs to existing projects rather than fork -> rebrand -> claim.

What does "VGC" expand to?

Cheers,

Adam
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