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Hi <br>
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Here's my 2 cents on all this and I apologise in advance if some
organisations feel concerned but they should anyway.<br>
Starting a petition is necessary for Inspire and all other OS projects
, but first maybe we could write once again why geoData must be public
domain in Europe because The Council really seem think headed and don't
seem to understand the prejudice caused by closing all this info into
the private sector:<br>
<ul>
<li> How can any European Spatial project develop a unified solution
if first it has to fight with every single actor of the EU??? The EU
needs an Inspired door to public geodata!!!</li>
<li> In EU shouldn't the U have some sort of sharing meaning in it ?
and not only be economical !!!<br>
</li>
<li>Limiting project developments potential because some actors are
holding on to their crumbling thrown is suicidal and and simply leaves
an open door for smart working external to Europe companies to march
on what belongs to Europe!!!</li>
<li>Today I get more data about Europe from the US than from Europe
itself , does someone see a problem in that ?? </li>
<li>Enhancing public geodata might give us developpers a starting
point in catching up the gap (crator) with the Greatly managed American
geoData providers (a great example of why and how data should be
publicly shared). who ever the geo Council is please be courious enough
to use google and type "USGS" , but be carefull you might discover what
open data means!!!<br>
</li>
<li>Snow Ball effect, EU must give to receive and it still has a lot
to learn of this philosophy</li>
<li>Standardise Europe Geographically !!! (see exmple below)<br>
</li>
</ul>
Maybe we could also start a list of european axed open source projects
where we could say why not having a european database is pulling the
hand break on our projects.<br>
<b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.open-atlas.org">www.open-atlas.org</a></b> : I could go into detail because the list of
problems caused by not having public data central for europe is long
but I'll stick one meaningfull example : I needed to find a centralised
document listing European countries with all provinces and regions.
This was never found so we did it manuelly going to each entity on the
web from many sources (wikipedia, many others...) because offcourse
there is no standard on the way countries are organised so every
country has it's own structure and worse there are still some ancient
structures mixed with more recent ones. Any way we put one person
working 2 months full time night and day on a nerve breaking job to do
this. <br>
<br>
I have to stop here or I'll really get suicidal<br>
Best Regards to all of you and to this movement <br>
Tibor Katelbach<br>
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Benjamin Henrion wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
I exchanged several mails with the MEP rapporter on INSPIRE directive to
know her position on copyright issues and amendments.
It will not be possible to introduce new amendments in second reading as
far as I can see, so if the INSPIRE directive is adopted, this one will
enforce copyright on state-collected geo data in all member states of
the EU.
The Council has reached a majority in supporting copyright for
state-collected geo data, and this issue of Public Domain Vs strong
copyright has not been discussed by civil society organisations.
If this directive will go through without any resistance from the civil
society or the industry, you can forget about geo-data in the public
domain for the future.
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