langreiter.com plain, simple: comments-2006-03-04

LANGREITER.COM plain, simple

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Samstag, 4. März 2006

"Last week, I asked my friend Norm Vine, a stalwart of the open source GIS community, if he could introduce me to someone at the U.S. Geological Survey who might be prepared to make a public statement about public access to national mapping data being a good thing for the national economy. He seemed genuinely perplexed for a moment, as if I'd just asked him to put me in touch with a fish that might be prepared to make a public statement on how water is a good thing for the marine ecology."

2006-03-04-eurogis

slauti 6834 days AGO
Yeah, you would not believe how public everything in good ole public service Europe ist.

chris 6834 days AGO
at least the public pays!

slauti 6833 days AGO
in many ways it does.

chris 6832 days AGO
fixing the rest should be easy.

wet towel 6832 days AGO
I'm sure such a proposal would require a give and take relationship in which each party involved could trade something of value for the effort. In the fishes case, I would guess a formal introduction to Ellen DeGeneres might suffice.

slauti 6832 days AGO
Never please forget the single most important parties in this are the so called European national entities respectively their administrative, political and scientific national elites. Now try to imagine the currency of the proposed give and take. Hard. It isn't really. Only long.

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