[Geowanking] Fwd: [OGC Press Release] Mash-up event to unite leading minds from the geographic information industry

[Josh@oklieb]

Lars,

On Oct 12, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Adam Hill wrote:
>
>> I am stunned, do they have any idea what they are getting
>> themselves into? :)
>
> Of course they (O.S.) do.  A mashup is a shop window that lures
> users to buy/license geodata from the O.S.  If people are starting
> to flock around the window, they will pull the curtain and begin
> to charge per view.  They're not starting to release any data into
> the free and open.  Exactly why the OGC is part of this, beats me.

Organizations work within their revenue model. If OS were legally set  
up to rely on tax revenue and freely provide geodata, that would be a  
different matter and different organization. Standards a la OGC may  
work well with free data, but certainly OGC services and encodings  
can and do also work well with fee-based usage models. OS in fact was  
one of the first government agencies in the world to adopt GML as a  
portability format for its data (MasterMap).

They also seem to be taking seriously and working at using OGC  
services to provide specific free or low-cost usage of their data, as  
distinct from "free for any use" delivery of entire datasets. This is  
a useful and appropriate connection with the concept of mashups. By  
the way, almost all data made accessible through OGC services and  
encodings has some rights reserved (e.g. attribution), however they  
are being regarded as "free and open".

My disclaimer: I am working with OS and with OGC on what is called  
"GeoDRM" but which is actually a wide concept of rights management in  
the use and distribution of geodata, including such things as  
Creative Commons and GPL.

Cheers,

Josh Lieberman


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