[OSM-talk] data.gov

[Eric Wolf]

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I met with Steve Coast a couple weeks ago. We're doing everything we
can to help OSM get the spatial data holdings of the USGS (which are
entirely copyright free).

-Eric Wolf

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Eric B. Wolf                          720-209-6818
USGS Geographer
Center of Excellence in GIScience
PhD Student
CU-Boulder - Geography




On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jens Müller <blog at tessarakt.de> wrote:
> Just found this on netzpolitik.org:
>
> http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data
>
> "If you’re a fan of free data flow into and out of the government, Vivek
> Kundra seems like an ally. But we can’t rest on our laurels. Now is
> exactly the time when lobbying for particular data and documents to be
> made accessible could be most effective."
>
> "This is your place to report where government data is locked up by
> design, neglect or misapplication of technology. We want you to point
> out the government data that you need or would like to have. Get involved! "
>
> Might this be interesting to the OSM project?
>
>
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