View source for Free Maps & Geodata

Geodaten in öffentlicher und privater Hand werden als wertvoller Asset betrachtet, besonders im Hinblick auf das erwartete Geschäft mit location-based Services. In den USA sind dagegen öffentlich generierte Informationen frei zugänglich (z.B. http://maps.google.com). Eine Alternative sind per GPS-Mapping kooperativ und frei erstellte Landkarten und Stadtplänen (z.B. http://www.bbbike.de).

Problem des Kartenmaterials: z.B. Xpedia-Karten sind für private Zwecke relativ bezahlbar zu lizenzieren, aber nicht fürs Web oder für kommerzielle Anwendungen
Alle wittern das Geschäft mit location-based Services, XML.


== possible speakers ==

* GPS-Mapping a la SETI@home => [http://www.bbbike.de/ BBBike] (Cornelius Keller) machen das 

* Bureau d‘Etudes, Paris

* Gate5 haben Berlin 3D vektorisiert

* TREBOR SCHOLZ | Germany/ U.S.A., Collaborative Cartographies, Situated Mapping

* Jo Walsh: Mapping Hacks. Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography. By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh, O‘Reilly, First Edition June 2005 (http://mappinghacks.com/ Blog).

* Google mashups: Google Maps will be replicated by the free scene in 6 months. Use their data, but don‘t get dependet on their API. e.g. [http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ google maps mania]

* [http://www.free-map.org.uk/ Freemap]. UK countryside, under CC. Maps in US freely accessible, not in UK. While your walking you can annotate the map, „there's barbed wire blocking my path" etc. Download  data from GPS, edit it, and upload again to Freemap. This project is aimed at collecting GPS-logs from from people involved and giving the database away to everyone who is interested for free.

* Steve Coast, Zambia: [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetmap] Open GIS. Prop. GIS servers are 50-100,000 $. open source editor: [http://udig.refractions.net/ U-dig], easy to create overlays. Web-based infrastructure. Problem: there are some maps on the Internet but hidden in portals, different data formats. But: User-contributed data will explode. Google maps will overtake gov. created data. 

* Mike Liebhold [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/05/10/geospatialweb.html The Geospatial Web: A Call to Action]. What We Still Need to Build for an Insanely Cool Open Geospatial Web, contributor to O'Reilly's upcoming Mapping Hacks 05/10/2005

* [http://www.mapbender.org/ Mapbender] is the software and portal site for geodata management of OGC OWS architectures

* Open Spatial Data Infrastructure [http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensdi/ OpenSDI]

* [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home Geoserver]

* [http://freemap.in/ mumbai free map], by [http://www.crit.org.in/ CRIT] (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), a group of architects and city planners. Gathered data down to housing blocks. Out of 18 mio people a high percentage is under-housed. Freemap is empowering them for city planning policies. 

* http://www.freemap.net/ Korean

* Depameter: Bebauungspläne, Kiezatlas, von Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung mit Vermessungshubschrauber.

* http://www.xmlcityberlin.de/ mit Landesinitiative "Projekt Zukunft", darin u.a. die AG Geodaten und Geoinformation



== mat. ==

http://www.geophilosophie.de/

http://www.olsrexperiment.de/

Bundesregierung arbeitet an Geodaten-Infrastruktur
Geo-Portale im Internet geplant Freitag, 15.07.2005
http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2036963

* Chris Corbin, working on maps since 30 years.
In the UK, 5.5 billion € are put into mapping each year.
Since 2000, the UK has become less data secretive.
PSI Directive = Public Sector Information, EU data reuse provision since 1. July 2005 (UK: SII 1515 2005)
In UK, state data is under crown copyright, health rules, ... all different conditions. 
Freedom of Information is essential for getting ps data. In place for environmental data since the 1990s. Didn‘t work. 15 mio public employees handle it, all interprete the rules in a different way. 
Old data is thrown away. A map from 20 years ago? No, don‘t have it. 
FOI -> yes, but difficult to actually get it. 
Ordinance data is under crown copyright. Is it covered by database rights? Not known. Pub. servants might not give it out for fear that it might be illegal.
PSI Directive: data must be given free, for non-commercial use, it should be free. Or for marginal cost. If they want more, they have to prove cost. 
Is strong on transparency. They have to build portals for metadata. 
public sector information is designed for employees, not for reuse by citizens. But: driven by user needs. 
National community broadband infrastructure, mapped local broadband, mostly WiFi‘ers



Google Earth gets attention
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/15/business/image.php
NEW YORK When Google introduced Google Earth, free software that
marries satellite and aerial images with mapping abilities, the
company emphasized its usefulness as a teaching and navigation tool,
while advertising the pure entertainment value of flying over high-
resolution images of the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the Pyramids.
	But since its debut in June, Google Earth has received attention of an
unexpected sort. Officials of several nations have expressed alarm
over its detailed display of government buildings, military
installations and other sensitive sites within their borders. India,
whose laws sharply restrict satellite and aerial photography, has been
particularly outspoken.
"It could severely compromise a country's security," V.S. Ramamurthy,
secretary of the Indian Department of Science and Technology


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