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Working Group on Open Geospatial Data

Purpose

1. Bring together representatives from existing groups for regular calls, to identify areas of potential collaboration, to undertake projects pertaining to geospatially referenced data
2. Maintain registry of open geodata and geospatially referenced data on CKAN and improve CKAN's support for metadata for geospatial datasets.

Members

Active

• Working Group Coordinator: Jo Walsh, EDINA + Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Suchith Anand, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham (UK)
• David K Arctur, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (USA)
• Joanne Cook, Oxford Archaeology + OS Geo UK (UK)
• Andrea Giacomelli, pibinko (Italy)
• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Gobe Hobona, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham (UK)
• Jeremy Huggett, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow
• Lance McKee, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (USA)
• Jeremy Morley, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham (USA)
• Antony Scott, Cranfield University (UK)
• William Wilcox, University of East Anglia (UEA) + OS Geo UK (UK)
• Maurizio Napolitano, Fondazione Bruno Kessler + OKFN (Italy)

Participate

To participate, join the open-geodata mailing list. If you'd like to join the WG, please send us an email.

Projects

Registry of open geodata on CKAN

See:

• http://ckan.net/group/geodata

Improve CKAN's support for geospatial data

See:

• http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_in_CKAN

To do list

Ticket:

• http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/181
• Bootstrap and maintain geodata group on CKAN
  • Todo: add packages from: http://ckan.net/package/search?q=geo&search=Search+Packages+»
• Organise virtual meeting in late February to register open geospatial datasets on CKAN
• Brainstorm about the future of geospatial data discovery

To invite/contact

• http://darctur.com/dka/dkabiog.html
• http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/profiles2/philip.james
• http://homepages.ge.ucl.ac.uk/~mhaklay/
• http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/
• http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/
• http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
• http://www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk/
• http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/index.aspx