Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data
Via Paolo Massa Blog
Petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data
You might want to sign up the petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data (in Italian).
We believe that state-collected geodata should be openly available to citizens. Please sign up below to support this manifesto.
All government-collected geodata should be open, that is, available for free distribution and re-use under a ShareAlike license.
Geodata is a public good. Open access to it, under a ‘Commons’ (ShareAlike) license, is the best way to see its full benefits realized by industry and citizens. At the same time such an arrangement, by requiring users to redistribute updates and improvements to the data, promises to deliver more and better data for less.
Availability of such information, as the remixable web meme shows us, could foster the development of an ecosystem of applications bringing a twofold enrichment, on one side of the value of the data collected, and on the other side of the web experience; briefly, spuring innovation.
