[geo-discuss] Free geo-data: what next?

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:04:06AM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> What a great idea. Markus: if you want the database dump just let me 
> know and I'll send it to you.

Here's the condensed numbers representing signups per country, i was
writing a script a while ago to just generate a shapefile for Markus
with this info embedded in it, I got bogged down in trying to find
perl libraries that would let me alter and write to dbf files, which 
i had assumed would be easy. this is from eu_map in okfn user's home...

This is the breakdown of signatories per country from the petition.

Austria:193
Belgium:103
Cyprus:8
Czech Republic:41
Denmark:54
Estonia:4
Finland:74
France:283
Germany:1873
Greece:29
Hungary:42
Ireland:42
Italy:1147
Latvia:11
Lithuania:4
Luxembourg:9
Malta:4
Netherlands:177
Norway:26
Poland:205
Portugal:198
Slovakia:69
Slovenia:20
Spain:1788
Sweden:122
Switzerland:55
United Kingdom:719

Interesting to see Germany and Spain really significantly more active
and that the UK is *not* among the few very responsive countries,
which surprises me given the situation that geodata is in here. 
Perhaps a lot of this comes down to press/blog coverage and the
activity of local groups, as much as reflecting the intensity of
interest in the issue. Perhaps we're more resigned to proprietary
stance here, and in different civic information environments in
different countries the propositions of INSPIRE seem more extreme,
more unlike the current art and desired state...?

If there is any more data / detail you need, do let me or Rufus know. 
There is city-level data too ...


jo