[euopendata] Dutch gov releases two major data sets

[james burke]

Good news indeed. A great week here locally for opening data in NL!



James

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday the Dutch government has announced two things:
> - the cadastral geodata sets will be made available for free, starting
> January 1, 2012. Currently the data costs 50.000 Euros.
> - the Dutch government is spending 4 million Euros to make up to date high
> quality satellite images of the entire country available for re-use. This,
> it seems, as a precursor to the coming EU infrastructure for satellite
> imagery/ earth observation that should be available by 2015.
>
> More at
> http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/dutch_government_will_release_geodata_and_satellite_images
>
> This is another sign that the Dutch government is making steps to remove
> charges for data. Already the Minister for Economic Affairs ordered the
> Chamber of Commerce to stop charging companies for their registration in the
> company register. Which raises hopes also the charges for then accessing the
> register will be done away with.
> And now the Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment is ordering the
> cadastral service to stop charging for their core data sets.
>
> With the Ministry for Foreign Affairs releasing IATI data on aid spending
> just weeks ago, and the formal launch of the Dutch data portal by the
> Minister for the Interior, as well as a Dutch data re-use competition in
> which also the Ministry for Education/Culture/Science is participating, it
> seems a lot of effort by many different people inside and outside government
> is paying of in tangible steps. Especially the removal of charges is a
> significant sign, I think, even though the Ministry of Finance as of yet is
> silent on the topic of open data. :)
>
> best,
>
> Ton
>
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