[Freegis-list] free gis data

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all.
Currently the situation of GIS data in Europe is rather grim, as most of you 
know, and the proposed Inspire directive does not seem imporving it 
drammatically. I talked to several public administrators, and I found that 
mostly they agree in letting people have and use "their" data, but they are 
concerned about possible commercial exploitations. Of course they have no 
idea about GPL, Commons etc.
I believe preparing a white paper on why and how gis data could be set free 
would be useful. If someone more experienced than I am would agree, please 
let coordinate and prepare something. I'll be glad of helping preparing and 
diffusing it, especially in Italy.
All the best.
pc
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Paolo Cavallini
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