http://mappinghacks.com/2006/03/19/on-being-in-a-foundation/ by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:58:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/03/19/on-being-in-a-foundation/#comment-6 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:22:50 +0000 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/03/19/on-being-in-a-foundation/#comment-6 [...] I believe we can create a framework for the “top-down” and “ground-up” approaches to work in a complementary way, to promote open public maintenance of public information. Perhaps the PGDP can find a state agency that’s already hoping to move into an open-source, open-access stance to work with on building a prototype implementation which can be documented, analysed and held up as a leading example. (This would be perhaps most likely to happen in Canada, where providing more open access to public geodata is part of the policy direction already.) It’s my hope that being in a foundation can provide the weight to make something like this happen. Posted by jwalsh Filed in Open Geodata [...] […] I believe we can create a framework for the “top-down” and “ground-up” approaches to work in a complementary way, to promote open public maintenance of public information. Perhaps the PGDP can find a state agency that’s already hoping to move into an open-source, open-access stance to work with on building a prototype implementation which can be documented, analysed and held up as a leading example. (This would be perhaps most likely to happen in Canada, where providing more open access to public geodata is part of the policy direction already.) It’s my hope that being in a foundation can provide the weight to make something like this happen. Posted by jwalsh Filed in Open Geodata […]

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