[Aust-NZ] Introduction: Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) SEC=UNCLASSIFIED [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Noli,

I think that you will find that Ben has a long lineage in spatial data and systems.

The issues that you have raised are well understood within our industry. It is through the efforts of Ben and a number of others that we are starting to get some traction to open up access to data.

The Vic gov developments are but one example of what is happening. You may wish to have a look at government 2.0 and QLD initiatives.

Also GA and BoM are already starting to release our data under CC.

However, this is not just a one way street. These datasets cost money to capture and maintain. We are going to have to look at how we can contribute in the future to ensure that we can continue obtaining quality data.

Bruce 
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From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Noli Sicad [nsicad at gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Introduction: Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty     Ltd) [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] SEC=UNCLASSIFIED

Hi

I heard Simon O'keefe was talking about "UK Heritage" website  that
you can download data in various format e.g. shapefiles, KML,
etc.during the last OSGeo Melbourne User Group meeting. According to
him, the site would not even ask you, how are you going to use the
data. He did not mentioned how easy to use and download which I guess
the probably main feature of the site.

> Have a look at the Australian Spatial Data Directory that hold 20+ thousand
> metadata records (I don't have the URL...sorry).

Is the website that are you talking,
http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/

It seems that it is only viewing data, if I am mistaken. How could we
download data from the site?

> We are in the process of migrating to GeoNetwork shortly and will work on
> improving the interface which is poor. We are also developing open source
> tools to easily capture metadata complying with the ISO19115 standard. We
> are also looking at harvesting tools.

I like to see the site soon and how easy for us to get / download
data, not just viewing data.

> My suggestion is don't build something else but help improve what is already
> there. I am happy to talk further if there is interest.

I totally agree with you on this. I am hoping that the thing that you
are building would be useful and easy to use. We l- Geo Spatial folks
have already difficulties using the existing sites. Most of the sites
are really good in hiding useful information. It seems that you have
dig thru layers of pagings, links, menus to get the information that
you need, then you can really get it. You refine the search and if you
are lucky, you can copy and paste the text, no download option.

Please let us more about your project.

Thanks, Noli
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