Mapping Hacks

Public Geodata is sending another Open Letter this time to Ministers in the Council before the conciliation and third reading process on the proposed INSPIRE Directive establishing a spatial data infrastructure in Europe. If you are in Europe it is still very much worth signing the petition and also trying to write to your national Environment Minister asking do they support the Parliament’s stance on amendments 21 and 27 at second reading, and if not why not, and please let us know. There’s more about this on the OKFN blog - looking idealistically towards collaborative production of open geodata.

At FOSS4G and EuroOSCON there should be BOF sessions on the subject of public geodata and the effort to balance the approach with pragmatic efforts on open source collaborative tools for geodata and metadata exchange.

Public Geodata - geographic information collected by the state - is a public good. This discussion covers how collaborative, free-of-copyright mapmaking and data exchange projects, and hacker-driven political awareness efforts regarding geodata legislation, can work together.

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