[okfn-discuss] State of Michigan geographic data available under CC0

[P Kishor]

The MichiganView consortium (http://michiganview.org/) makes available
aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for
free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, MichiganView
supports access and use of these imagery collections through
education, workforce development, and research. Starting Jan 28, 2010,
MichiganView is making available all of its more than 93 Gigabytes of
Landsat 5 and 7, and NAIP 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 MichiganView may be directed to Dr. Tyler
Erickson, Director, MichiganView at tyler.erickson at mtu.edu and
questions about the CC0 waiver may be directed to Puneet Kishor,
Science Commons Fellow (Geospatial Data) at
punkish at creativecommons.org.



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Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org
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Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor
Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
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