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

Fri Mar 23 13:27:49 UTC 2007

Funny, I was looking at the signatures, while I found this site
linking to some of our files:

http://www.ign-sn.de/

http://publicgeodata.org/files/envicommittee_20060221.mp3

On 3/23/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
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