[open-government] Help requested - mapping the world's open data catalogues

Wed Oct 12 09:42:48 UTC 2011

I think that's a legitimate concern Jose. I want to be able to provide
an idea of spatial coverage by using polygons, rather than points.
That's the main differentiator between this and other efforts.

2011/10/12 Jose M. Alonso <josema at webfoundation.org>:
> Hi Tim , all,
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> It might be me but I cannot understand why you are reinventing the wheel. What is wrong with?
> http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
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> Besides, AFAIR, CTIC is curating datacatalogs and there were plans to integrate the faceted browser there.
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> Josema.
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> El 12/10/2011, a las 08:09, Tomáš Pošepný escribió:
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>> Hi Tim,
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>> I would be happy to help, but can't start working on it before 5pm. So if it's not done until then,
>> I'll definitely help and do as much as I can.
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>>
>> Tomas Posepny
>> Computer Science student
>> Charles University in Prague
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>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
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>> I've begun a public map for all of the world's public data catalogues:
>> http://g.co/maps/23xjw
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>> I have completed page 1/8 from http://datacatalogs.org. I wont have
>> enough time to get it all done today. If anyone would like to help,
>> that would be fantastic.
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