[Geowanking] call for help from EU GIS hackers re EC legislation

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Sam Critchley - A2B.cc wrote:

> I think part of the problem is that there are a gazillion companies in

I strongly urge you to read the Inspire and background docs in full
detail; as in virtually all cases it is not so much the corperate world
but a (mis)guided deire by the govt's. to capitalize their  digital
asssets and/or ensure that they can make their mapping dept.s into
independent agencies which have some sort of revenue based income stream
as opposed to a tax payer fed stream.

Most of the commisison is remarkebly free of this.

> the EU making money from charging for services in this area (although
> many of them would actually benefit if the data were free), and only a
> couple of thousand people on the other end of things who know enough
> about the situation to make a noise about it - educating people who
> aren't directly involved is probably part of the challenge.

And you may actually be better off going to your local parliament than to
a EP member :-).

DW.