Open EU geodata, say no to Inspire
Luistxo Fernandez
2006/02/15 15:36
Please sign the petition for Public Geographical Data and against Inspire.
INSPIRE is a UE Directive on European "spatial data infrastructure" and it just began its second reading in the European Parliament. Read in a mailing list: Within a few weeks or months it may entrench a policy of charging European citizens to access public information they've already paid to collect.
Europeans need open data. Open maps, open postal address geocoding.
Doing our bit, I just signed, and contributed with translations into Basque and Spanish.
No to Inspire.
Nitu Constantin
President of Romanian Cartographic Association