[Freegis-list] Looking for a FreeGIS maintainer for geodata entries

[Chris Holmes]

I'm potentially interested in this, though really shouldn't take on
more duties.  But I'm not sure about the license thing - what licenses
are 'acceptable' to you?  I mean, honestly the GPL doesn't really
cover anything other than software, it's very specifically aimed at
software, and even C++ at that, with the static linking and all.

My organization (The Open Planning Project, we're a non-profit in nyc,
primary supporter of geoserver) is going to be looking into building
tools to help enable more open datasets - community editing tools on
top of WFS like attributions, revisioning, history, rollbacks,
security, ect. - wiki like functionality and beyond.  And then a part
of it is we'll probably try to get Creative Commons working on some
map data specific licenses.  I met Lessig in South Africa and he
seemed interested in having CC work on them - they have a few
thoughts, since data can't actually be copyrighted, but there are
ideas on how to get around that.  I think even just a set of licenses
for mapping data could help us a lot, to point at something clear that
people could stick on their data.  That combined with much better,
standards based tools for collaboration I think may help open geo data
out a lot.

best regards,

Chris

On 7/14/05, Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan at intevation.de> wrote:
> Hi FreeGIS Community,
> 
> FreeGIS has neglected the GeoData entries too much over the past
> years. That was mostly due to lack of time on my side and that
> software had a higher priority for me.
> 
> I would be glad to find someone who likes to take over this
> category. This would involve some work, ie:
> 
> - react to entries in the bug tracker,
> - react to proposals appearing on the mailing list
>   or send directly,
> - evaluate the reported dataset especially with regard
>   to the license,
> - and finally enter the entry at least in english and optionally
>   in other langugages you like.
> 
> What do you get for this?
> Well, a very good insight in available Free GeoData ;-)
> And of course you enter the Hall of Fame.
> 
> 
> It could also be a team sharing load or topics (eg. raster-vector).
> 
> Please let me know off-list whether you would like to volunteer.
> 
> All the best
> 
>         Jan
> 
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