[Freegis-list] Re: Geographic/spatial data policies

[Prof. Uriel Pérez Gómez]

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Uriel Pérez, Professor, uperez at ut.edu.co, 
LabSIG /  Universidad del Tolima
Ibagué - Tolima, Colombia
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Doyle" <adoyle at eogeo.org>
To: "freegis-list" <freegis-list at intevation.de>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Re: Geographic/spatial data policies


> Each page has a PDF link in it. The page you selected has this link 
> http://print.nap.edu/pdf/0309092671/pdf_image/1.pdf The executive 
> summary as a whole is also available as PDF at 
> http://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11079.pdf
> 
> The point is that they make it possible to read online but a little 
> harder to read offline.
> 
> I skimmed the executive summary and believe that the book seems to be 
> even-handed and does not a priori decide that data should be 
> restrictively licensed.
> 
> I think we need to constructively move the world towards more freedom 
> and openness, and the current non-flamewar under the "just free..." 
> subject shows that the FreeGIS community is willing to help in that 
> regard.
> 
> Allan
> 
> On Dec 28, 2004, at 17:44, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> > Full of enthusiasm to read the book free online, I selected page
> > http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309092671/html/1.html
> > only to find jpg's and OCR output...
> >
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