[Freegis-list] Where's the money in GIS?

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am  4. Jan 2006 um 08:30:07 schrieb Allan Doyle:
> On Jan 4, 2006, at 07:21, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > It translates nicely as common good, common land
> > or commons as in "The tragedy of the Commons".
> > This is why I believe the comparison is bad:
> > With data that can be copied without loss, the tragedy is missing.
> 
> Who needs tragedy?! The commons is the correct term. Even better if  
> the data can be reused without tragedy.

It is the right translation, but "Allmende" in German is quite 
closely attached to the accompaining problem of its limits.
So using it as comparison is not a good start into explaining the concept.
As far as I know the situation is similiar in English.

> The idea of a geographic data commons has been around for a little  
> while at least. You can see some initial materials here http:// 
> www.spatial.maine.edu/geodatacommons/

Of course it has been, 
the whole "public domain" idea in the US has been there for a while yet.
And FreeGIS which also provides information about data coming with
enough freedom has been founded end of 1999, which is quite a while ago. :)

	Bernhard
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