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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Allan Doyle" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: "freegis-list" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:07
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Re: Geographic/spatial
data policies</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> Each page has a PDF link in it. The page you selected has this link
<BR>> </FONT><A
href="http://print.nap.edu/pdf/0309092671/pdf_image/1.pdf"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://print.nap.edu/pdf/0309092671/pdf_image/1.pdf</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2> The executive <BR>> summary as a whole is also available
as PDF at <BR>> </FONT><A
href="http://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11079.pdf"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11079.pdf</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> <BR>> The point is that they make it possible to read online but
a little <BR>> harder to read offline.<BR>> <BR>> I skimmed the
executive summary and believe that the book seems to be <BR>> even-handed and
does not a priori decide that data should be <BR>> restrictively
licensed.<BR>> <BR>> I think we need to constructively move the world
towards more freedom <BR>> and openness, and the current non-flamewar under
the "just free..." <BR>> subject shows that the FreeGIS community is willing
to help in that <BR>> regard.<BR>> <BR>> Allan<BR>> <BR>> On Dec
28, 2004, at 17:44, Dan Jacobson wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Full of enthusiasm
to read the book free online, I selected page<BR>> > </FONT><A
href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309092671/html/1.html"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309092671/html/1.html</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>> > only to find jpg's and OCR output...<BR>>
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