[Freegis-list] free gis data

[Henrion Benjamin]

Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> [050610]:
> 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.

What is the status of the directive?

Maybe it would be a good idea to draft amendments for it.

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