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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:41:51AM +0100, Roger Bivand wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Alexander Nervedi wrote:

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It would be really nice if there was a repository of these kinds of data, 
especially if they were not limited in use, but there is a long way to go 
before everywhere else catches up with the US.

The OSGeo Foundation will try to work on this:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project

We are currently forming this project into a committee
of the foundation. Feel free to join us, and/or contribute
your suggestions.

Thanks for a very useful link, I'm sure that users of geospatial data in R
will be supportive. Unfortunately, it looked as though India is in the
European position - no free access - from the google hits on Indian data
that I found. I would encourage list readers to bookmark the link Markus
provided, I'm sure it is worth not just watching, but also being
pro-active. 

<rant> I'll mention the petition on open geodata of relevance for EU
residents again, I posted it on R-help last week:

http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php

because we all have a significant interest in more open access to data in 
order to carry out our work! </rant>

Roger

 Markus

Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no