MappingHacks.com
Title
Mapping Hacks
Description
I hear from Tracey P. Lauriault of the launch of the Civic Access project. This is a Canadian effort whose full title is Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data. I like the pragmatic nature of their mission:
Encourage institutions to share data, start a working group to build technologies that make data accessible, support local groups trying to acquire data, develop an education campaign.
A lot of the resources they provide references to are geographic data sets. Tracey herself is involved in ’spatial data infrastructure’ work from a ‘participatory planning’ perspective. A more general , positive open access to datacampaign follows from efforts to free state-collected geodata from monopoly pricing.
Languages
English
