Open Access for Geospatial Data!

Modifying the INSPIRE Directive, an unsigned document, dated October 18, 2004, arguing that Europe’s INSPIRE (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe) should recommend open access to publicly-funded spatial data.

Source:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

The unsigned document is from Jo Walsh see
http://egip.jrc.it/200410/1118.html

See also:

http://www.vterrain.org/freedata.ca/why-free.html

http://frot.org/devlog/0009_inspire.html

http://space.frot.org/docs/tcm_eurospatial.html

Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/375135 (German)
http://jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pipermail/urecht/Week-of-Mon-20040202/001496.html (German)

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