[Freegis-list] Cooperative mapping project proposal

[Stefano Maffulli]

Hello Brett, hello everybody

I suggest you to give a look at this web site as it implements partially
(as long as I understant) what you may want to setup. I know most of the
people involved in that project (i will see them next thursday, btw) and
they are very open to suggestions and may help you.
http://opengis.jrc.it/

Actually I am happy as your idea follows one that I had in mind for a long
time, but never had the time to focus on. Here at JRC and at the GIS_LAB at
the University of Florence, I had long discussions over how to practically
implement the idea. I had to give up, taken by daily work and also since
lots of technology 2 years ago did not exist or was not as mature as today.
I am really glad the issue is coming up again, so please, if you need any
help feel free to contact me personally

Good luck
Stefano Maffulli

PS:
[snip]
>  This page is old but relevant:
>
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/NonProfitBlvd/free_world_maps/index.html

How old is this page? How far away did the project go (are there any
dataset published, aside from the US time zones)?

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