[okfn-discuss] WisconsinView satellite data, now under CC0

Thu Jul 2 17:23:41 UTC 2009

This looks brilliant!

Just created a package on CKAN:

  http://ckan.net/package/read/wisconsin-view

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Jonathan Gray

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The Open Knowledge Foundation
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor<punkish at eidesis.org> wrote:
> My friend Dr. Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView, has made available
> the program's more than 6 Terabytes of satellite imagery under the CC0
> Protocol. Here is a "press release"
>
> Since 2004, WisconsinView (http://www.wisconsinview.org) has made
> aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the
> public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium,
> WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections
> through education, workforce development, and research. Starting June
> 30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all of its more than 6
> Terabytes of imagery data under the new CC0 Protocol provided by
> Creative Commons. The CC0 (pronounced CC-Zero) Protocol waives any
> rights in a dataset, ensuring that all of the dataset is available to
> anyone without encumbrance of any kind. More information on CC0 is
> available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0, and the reasoning
> behind the protocol is described at http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/
> . Further questions about WisconsinView may be directed to Dr. Sam
> Batzli, Director, WisconsinView at sabatzli at wisc.edu or Puneet Kishor,
> Science Commons Fellow (Geospatial Data) at punkish at creativecommons.org.
>
>
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