[Upd-discuss] Public access to geographical data

[Peter Suber]

At 09:21 AM 4/9/2006, you wrote:

>Here is a campaign in favour of public access to=20
>geographical data in the European Union  as this=20
>access is now challenged by a Directive.
>
>http://www.publicgeodata.org/
>
>Excerpt from the home page: "Inspire Directive=20
>[...] stipulates that Geographic Data collected=20
>by National Mapping Agencies all over Europe=20
>should be owned by such agencies and not by the=20
>Public. [...] INSPIRE will entrench a policy of=20
>charging citizens for information they have=20
>already paid to collect, enforced by state=20
>copyright over geographic information."
>
>J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me Borme


FYI, I track this and related developments on Open Access News,
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

      Peter


Peter Suber
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