[geo-discuss] Petition for open geo data in all the 27 member states?

Fri Mar 23 12:50:25 UTC 2007

Sounds a great idea Benjamin. I think we could substantially reuse the 
text from:

http://www.okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php

We also need to sort out the petition software (or use some standard 
petition service) as we've had to take down 
http://petition.publicgeodata.org/ for the time being due to spam issues 
(bascially the form allowing you to notify others of the petition was 
wide open to abuse ...).

Regards,

Rufus

Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be great if we could formulate new licence terms for
> governments in order to help them to free our data.
> 
> This crown copyright adopted by several member states is slowing down
> the GIS industry, and we should be able to call on politicians to
> change this silly cost recovery policy.
> 
> I am thinking to start a platform under publicgeodata.org in order to
> start national petitions.
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403
> 
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