Finally, someone mentions the work of the USGS and the Open Geospatial Consortium, who have been on top of open spatial data and sharing standards for decades. Maybe some of them will finally get invited to the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference, too.
Getting back on topic... In addition to participating in an open source geospatial project, we should also work to make sure public geospatial resources don't disappear from the public domain, as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) wants them to:
http://www.urisa.org/Board_Initiatives/NGA.htm
Comments due by June 30.
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Finally, someone mentions the work of the USGS and the Open Geospatial Consortium, who have been on top of open spatial data and sharing standards for decades. Maybe some of them will finally get invited to the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference, too. Getting back on topic... In addition to participating in an open source geospatial project, we should also work to make sure public geospatial resources don't disappear from the public domain, as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) wants them to: http://www.urisa.org/Board_Initiatives/NGA.htm Comments due by June 30.