I hope you can help spread the word. Most of our participants in
Christchurch are without power, but as they come online, this will be
one way to communicate in this time of crisis easily via e-mail, etc.
that can reach people across multiple technical platforms in a longer
form than tweets.
Join at:
http://canterburyissues.org.nz
Follow on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/edemcanterbury
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Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy
New Tel: +1.612.234.7072
We (DIA) have just launched an open data engagement pilot in a joint initiative
with the Ministry for the Environment. The pilot is testing the hypothesis that
data is a useful ingredient in government policy consultations.
The discussion forum http://nesdiscussion.mfe.govt.nz/ is running in parallel
with MfE's consultation on the National Environmental Standard for Plantation
Forestry. The forum focuses on Erosion Susceptibility Classification and asks
three associated questions with relevant datasets. The forum site aggregates
land based datasets that look at land environment, cover, use and also and
climate and water (all things important when considering erosion
susceptibility).
Please take a look at the forum and the data. Is there anything interesting
that could come from the data to inform the discussion?
While you're there please also fill out the brief questionnaire to help us with
the pilot evaluation.
Hi all,
Just a reminder about the open.org.nz meeting next Wednesday at the
Silverstripe board room, Level 5 Symes Da Silva House, 97-99 Courtenay
Place, 4-6pm, September 8.
I booked for 14 for dinner at Great India, and 11(ish) people have put their
names down for that.
So, if you haven't already put your name down, and would like to come to the
dinner, please add your name on the the wiki at
http://wiki.open.org.nz/AGM2010
I'll then amend the booking accordingly.
Have a great weekend folks,
Julian
Hiya,
Announced this morning is a New Zealand competition to get people using
NZ digital content and data. The competition will go live in November so
this is really just a heads up:
www.mixandmash.org.nz
Open New Zealand, together with some other orgs are getting in behind
this, and a big thanks to Glen and Nat for their support. They are both
in the air travelling at the moment, but they have noted the appeal of
the mashup side is in its call to action. We'll be working hard to make
sure this comes off.
In anycase, below is a little more info that you won't find on the
general announcement page. More soon.
Cheers,
Andy
On behalf of the Mix and Mash crew
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The competition is being run to assist New Zealand organisations to
release their content and data for reuse, and to encourage the creation
of new tools, services and experiences using this material – from iPhone
apps to digital stories to things the organisers haven’t even thought of
yet.
Mix and Mash aims to:
-broaden New Zealand support for open and reusable digital content and
data
-encourage and reward development that uses New Zealand digital content
and data
-strengthen relationships between digital content and data producers and
the developer and creative communities.
Competition details, including categories and prizes, will be announced
at a special event in early November, and the competition will run for
approximately 3 weeks. Entries will be showcased online after the
competition closes.
Mix and Mash is being run together with DigitalNZ, Webstock, NZ On
Screen, Creative Commons New Zealand, Open New Zealand, data.govt.nz,
and the National Library of New Zealand. If you have content or data
you’d like to open up for the competition, or ideas on how you could
get involved with this effort, we’d love to hear from you:
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To sign up for competition updates, go to www.mixandmash.org.nz
Hi all
An open question please... I'm interested in finding out more about what
progress has been made getting the NZ Topo series into OSM and what plans there
are for the future - who should I contact?
Reuben Williams put together the NZ Topo series in http://www.nztopomaps.com
see attached email. We've published a "guest blog" by Reuben on
http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/nztopomaps-com-improving-access-to-nz-topo-series/.
I'd love to also promote what is being done with OSM. In particular, I'd love
to post another "guest blog" that addresses questions for the reader,
including:
* what have you done (if possible include a URL link)?
* how does OSM relate/compare to other initiatives, such as
www.nztopomaps.com<http://www.nztopomaps.com>?
* what's been challenging/successful?
* who's funding/resourcing this project?
* how does this work relate to the Geospatial Strategy?
* next steps?
* who's involved?
* who would you like to work with/what are some things that other agencies
could do to improve the service on offer to users?
* who can I contact to find out more?
If there's anything else you'd like to add feel free to offer this as well.
Many thanks!
John
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:42:51 +1000
From: Noli Sicad <email obscured>>
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Hi Hamish,
> the Geosciences Australia OGC Web Map server might be of
> interest:
>
> http://www.ga.gov.au/wms/getmap?dataset=national&request=getCapabiliti
> es
> ? (I don't know much more about it beyond the url)
It seems to be working. I just tested it using 3G mobile vodafone connection
:-). Just see the layers.
>> Any plans in pipeline for Australia and New Zealand WMS and WFS
>> services?
>
> the NZopenGPS is currently working at getting the full LINZ topo
> dataset into OpenStreetMaps. (So far only the Chatham Islands trial is
> 98% complete) Once that is done I'd like to look at setting it up as a
> Free WMS(Mapnik or Osmarender styles)/WFS as exists for some parts of
> Europe.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ
Cadastral boundary imports is I think very useful for general public (e.g.
agriculture, forestry, real estate developers, etc.)
> I believe that for NZ the server loads will probably be low enough to
> be manageable. Due to expensive bandwidth it would probably have to be
> limited to NZ only.
Is the server cost or end user cost (download) in using the service?
If it is server cost, then probably host it somewhere cheaper.
> (yes, LINZ->postgis->osm->postgis->wms is a long chain, but hopefully
> not too lossy)
OSM good data provider but just limited to roads, coastlines, POI.
Cadastral boundary would be good addition in the case OSM-NZ.
Thanks.
Noli
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:17:57 +1000
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Hi Ben, Bruce et al,
For sure GeoNetwork supports ISO19119 services metadata. It also supports auto
harvesting and building a service metadata record (and 19115 metadata records
about any layers available from these services) from an OGC GetCapabilities URL
for a variety of WxS (eg. WMS, WFS).
The original subject seems to be about finding out about available OGC WxS and
in that context what might be nice for metadata managers (and perhaps others?)
would be an ASDD service they could use to submit the URL of an OGC WxS service
for listing in the ASDD. These could be held in a single metadata record or if
important enough (how do we measure this? ASDD search stats?) their
GetCapabilities info could be regularly harvested in order to build individual
metadata records with more detail. (Of course the usefulness of the 'detail' in
these harvested records depends on the people who manage these OGC services
filling out the metadata fields so it can be harvested from the GetCapabilities
request).
We have a similar problem to solve for Z3950 services searched by the ASDD but
the situation is a little more constrained as we only plan to support the
existing Z3950 nodes of the ASDD and Z3950 services are not self-describing
(ie. no GetCapabilities) so the records will be hand crafted.
I'm working with John Hockaday on this so feel free to comment on anything here
John.
Cheers,
Simon
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Bruce,
Great idea. I will mention this to Simon Pigot who is doing this work for us.
Regards
Ben Searle
General Manager,
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Ben,
Perhaps we could list them via the new ASDD.
GeoNetwork will support services metadata in ISO 19119 format (with links
ideally to the ASDD metadata describing the Service?s content).
Bruce
On 16/08/10 8:30 AM, <email obscured>" <email obscured>> wrote:
Jodi and others,
I would be happy to host any list you develop on the new Gazetteer web site I
mentioned in an earlier email. The new web site will be called OzMap and the
gazetteer will be available under OzMap Places. We are already looking at
providing a link to authoritative registers and vocabularies and so a list of
WMS and WFS capabilities would also be very relevant.
Any thoughts on this?
Regards
Ben Searle
General Manager,
Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management
Phone: 02 6249 9298
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This is actually a common question; perhaps one small thing we could do as a
group is list WMS & WFS services available for the region on our wiki area?
Jody
On 15/08/2010, at 11:52 AM, Noli Sicad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for WMS and WFS services to see the capabilities of QGIS
> in this area. Do you know if any Australia and New Zealand available
> WMS and WFS services that is open to the public to browse and use?
>
> Yes, I can always try these WMS and WFS (below)
> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Available+WMS+and+WFS+servers
>
> Any plans in pipeline for Australia and New Zealand WMS and WFS
> services?
>
> Thanks.
>
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I'm not able to ellaborate on the details... But in terms of the LRIS, on
http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/lris-launched-today/ David mentioned that "There
are plans that by Christmas 2010 data will be accessible via web services
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Hi all,
I thought some might be interested in this. Landcare Research have just
launched their new Land Resources Information System portal, using Koordinates.
It's at
http://lris.scinfo.org.nz<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LandcareResearch/05e1e15001/4321750d6d/d5f5e4e973>
and
is made of awesome.
I'm not sure if/how it's providing data feeds/APIs, but Chris McDowall or Ed
may be able to clarify that.
Julian
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Dear Colleague,
Landcare Research is pleased to announce the release of a new online web
resource, the Land Resource Information System (LRIS) Portal, which is being
launched today (24th August 2010).
Details about the Portal can be found at the end of this email or go to
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Powerful new resource provides online access to important environmental data
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New Zealand has a powerful new online resource to assist people in
understanding its diverse natural environments and resources.
With the launch of the Land Resource Information System (LRIS) Portal (
http://lris.scinfo.org.nz<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LandcareResearch/05e1e15001/4321750d6d/fa57d7ed6e>),
individuals working in regional and central government, industry, research and
education now have quick and easy access to environment data held by Landcare
Research. These geospatial datasets, many of which are considered of national
significance, can be used for creating maps, analysis, modelling and generally
for finding out about New Zealands environments and land resources.
The information available includes records from the New Zealand land resource
inventory, data underpinning the land environments NZ (LENZ) data set,
fundamental soils layers, regional soil databases and digital elevation models.
These data can be used in a diverse range of applications. Examples include
catchment and resource management, national monitoring of carbon sources and
sinks, studies of climate change, and preparation of farm plans for land
managers.
Built using software provided by Koordinates Limited
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the LRIS Portal marks a major shift to free on-line access to geospatial
information facilitated by Backbone funding from the Foundation for Science
Research and Technology.
Making data collected and managed by Landcare Research available to a wider
audience through an easy-to-use facility is an important first step by Landcare
Research to support New Zealands government-wide programme to open and reuse
government data, says David Medyckyj-Scott, LRIS Portal Project Leader.
Designed to make the data usable as well as accessible, each data layer comes
with metadata (data about data), supporting documents and easy-to-understand
data use licenses. Users can select from a variety of data formats and, using a
map-based interface, sub-set the geographic extent of the data so they only
download data for the area they are interested in.
This means users no longer need to store large datasets themselves, they just
take the bits they need when they need them.
The amount and type of data available in the portal will be added to
significantly in the future.
We have a list of data we have indentified that can be added to the portal in
the coming months says James Barringer, who manages the data in the portal.
Many of these datasets havent been available publically before but we know they
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The portal is part of greater efforts to create a new repository of
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Hi Everyone,
Sadly I was unable to attend OpenLabour today, but looking at the
OpenLabour web site gives me hope that politicians are starting to
understand the importance of the net both in principle and practice.
Here is the link to the section on Open Data:
http://open.labour.org.nz/tiki-index.php?page=Open+Data
Now I must say that I'm not partisan. This is not a party political
broadcast. Ideally I would like to see political parties working
together to support policy that is rational and based on objective
data that has been collected in an unbiased way; aka not to collect
data to support a particular ideology. I think there is an appetite
for this movement; the Open movement.
And while I must congratulate Labour on recognizing the movement I
think it's important that they not try to own it. There would be
nothing better than for National and others to embrace the same
principles, as these principles are shared among a broad spectrum of
New Zealanders.
Should be of interest here:
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and
collaborative use of geospatial data. The project aims to surpass existing
spatial data infrastructure solutions by integrating robust social and
cartographic tools.
The World Bank and OpenGeo are leading a growing community of partners in
defining and developing GeoNode.
Geonode is based on a suite of robust & tested applications from the OSGEO
Foundation.
For the intial test implementation, see:
http://ecapra.org/
For the project website, see:
http://geonode.org/
Brent Wood
Hi guys,
The ALGGi GIS data pricing policy 2005 - Oct 2010 (PDF):
http://wiki.open.org.nz/wiki/images/5/58/Policy_on_charging_for_information.pdf
Supplied by a contact at one of the Auckland councils.
On 26/08/2010, at 9:37 PM, Ed Corkery wrote:
> Hello again Glen.......... .... ......
>
>> I'm playing devils advocate here a little as I know the back story
>> on some of these datasets ;-)
>
>
> -splutter-
>
;-)
My main point was that these issues are something that we have to look at as a
bigger issue. Departments (MOE), suppliers (Critchlow), republishers
(Koordinates), and re-users (Zoodle) all have to look at how we can work
together to make the pieces fit together. It is a wider issue than just this
one dataset but it does highlight quite dramatically the issues faced with data
that is not properly 'open'.
> ED:/Rob: Are you planning on mirroring the content so it is easier
> for the layperson to access the data on Koordinates?
We could, but no license is displayed. But I understand DOC is fine
with CC-style licensing, NZGOAL aside. Will enquire.
Hello again Glen.......... .... ......
> I'm playing devils advocate here a little as I know the back story
> on some of these datasets ;-)
-splutter-
> I think we need to be careful on using the word "authoritative".
It's authoritative if it comes from the official government/council
custodian and they say it's authoritative... here we should note that
Koordinates didn't say the Schools Zones layer was the authoritative
copy (it's clearly marked with a month + OIA warning), we didn't add
it to data.govt.nz, nor did we request it be added to data.govt.nz. It
just appeared one day, which is all very pleasant. Like other
Koordinates entries not in our new metadata feed, it will be pruned
out in a few days time.
The ideal situation for data.govt.nz is probably to restrict ALL
entries to feeds from confirmed authoritative sources, but that's
impractical until they get wider buy-in.
> The school zones file is a point in time release of information as a
> one-off basis to you which Koordinates republished.
Almost all desktop use of GIS data is a one-off point in time release.
That's the unfortunate reality for the industry at present. Requesting
new files from Critchlow's for snail-mail or email delivery every time
someone adds or changes a school zone isn't feasible.
A better solution might be to have a website where such data can be
easily uploaded and updated by the custodian and made immediately
available via a spatial query API, so services such as Zoodle could
access it from the authoritative source without having to touch GIS
file formats. You could even have the uploaded stuff appearing
automatically on data.govt.nz. Someone should look into that.
> This in my view does not mean it is authoritative as we don't know
> what processing you did to it.
Ah, but you do! The processing history is listed in each Koordinates
layer page and included with all downloaded data in a human-readable
text file.
Unfortunately, we received no such processing history or metadata
with the MapInfo file supplied by MOE, but they did provide a file**
listing 26 schools which "have zones, but are not included in the
layer". So the data supplied by MOE wasn't actually an authoritative
representation of New Zealand school zones at the time of the OIA
request, it was a "this is the best we have, here's some known
problems, take it". That's OK, it's difficult to source geospatial
information about schools, we understand. But if the schools struggle
to provide their school zone boundaries, how can the dataset ever be
"authoritative", in a real world sense? (a crowd-sourced + edited
mapping app: maybe).
** The PDF file: http://koordinates.com/layer/743/attachments/185/
In addition... Critchlow's maintains the data in a GIS file format
unusable by about 90% of the commercial GIS market in New Zealand, let
alone Google Earth or CAD users etc. So it has to be reprocessed to be
usable by pretty much everyone. The nature of that reprocessing isn't
preserved along with the reprocessed data... except if you got it via
Koordinates, of course.
And then there's the NZ Map Grid issue.
> The real authoritative dataset for the school zones file is the one
> distributed by Critchlow and Associates under license to the MOE.
> This is the only one that should be listed on data.govt.nz as the
> school zone source.
They could try: http://www.data.govt.nz/add-dataset/
Hi Ed,
I'm playing devils advocate here a little as I know the back story on some of
these datasets ;-)
I think we need to be careful on using the word "authoritative". The school
zones file is a point in time release of information as a one-off basis to you
which Koordinates republished. This in my view does not mean it is
authoritative as we don't know what processing you did to it. The real
authoritative dataset for the school zones file is the one distributed by
Critchlow and Associates under license to the MOE. This is the only one that
should be listed on data.govt.nz as the school zone source. All other
derivatives should be linked to from this main listing. In fact I would go so
far as to say that the schoolzones.govt.nz website should not be listed as it
does not allow machine readable access to the data. Now we know that that
particular dataset has a ton of issues but at least the "blame" lies squarely
back at the MOE for data quality and we can work directly with them to increase
the quality. When it isn't the authoritative dataset there is a grey area as to
where the problem lies.
It is great to see that the ones you are now providing to data.govt.nz via
feeds are authoritative datasets. If we can mark them as such this will be
great addition to the site. As a user we need confidence that what we are
downloading is the 'right' data. We can of course make a choice to go with an
easier solution if it meets our needs (say DoC tracks Koordinates instead of
from DoC) but we need to be able to sanity check the sources. Say "Koordinates
is dated August 10th 2010, version 1234 and Koordinates has the same version.
All good."
Glen
On 26/08/2010, at 3:50 PM, Ed Corkery wrote:
> Hi Glen,
>
> The original data.govt.nz entries based on Koordinates layers were
> added manually by SSC/DIA staff when data.govt.nz launched. While
> those earlier entries are "authoritative" in the sense the data is
> sourced from their custodians via the Official Information Act, some
> of the data is now out of date. As you know, many GIS data custodians
> aren't providing periodic data updates to anyone via the Internet so
> it's extremely difficult to keep them up-to-date, e.g. the School
> Zones data used by Zoodle (entry #137 referenced by Glen below).
>
> The Koordinates metadata feed referenced by Nadia in her original post
> *only* contains NZ governmentt/council items maintained on Koordinates
> by their custodians, e.g. Northland Regional Council, Wellington City
> Council, Ministry for the Environment, and others to come. They are
> all authoritative. The goal going forward is to *only* feed such
> authoritative layers into data.govt.nz; the older manual entries will
> be pruned out.
>
> Ed
>
> On 26/08/2010, at 2:21 PM, Glen Barnes wrote:
>
>> Hi Nadia,
>>
>> Can we assume then that these are the authoritative data set for
>> these sources? Are there plans to 'stamp' authoritative datasets as
>> such on the site. For example with this dataset -
http://www.data.govt.nz/dataset/show/830
>> it would be nice to have some form of mark that this is the
>> official place to get this from. Other datasets from Koordinates are
>> not authoritative (http://www.data.govt.nz/dataset/show/137) and it
>> can become confusing as to what is what.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Glen
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26/08/2010, at 12:39 PM, Nadia Webster wrote:
>>
>>> Big thanks to Koordinates for all the work they've done to supply a
>>> feed of metadata to data.govt.nz. We are now listing GIS datasets
>>> from Northland Regional Council, Wellington City Council and the
>>> Ministry for the Environment.
>>>
>>> Metadata from from Treasury is also now sourced from a feed.
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I don't think the Doc stuff is ready for general release is it? I tried to
download the walking tracks from the site but couldn't work out how to (It just
gave be a big red X in Google Earth.)
Anyone else managed to work out how to use the site yet? It will be awesome
once this is released properly.
ED:/Rob: Are you planning on mirroring the content so it is easier for the
layperson to access the data on Koordinates?
I'll provide some feedback once we can confirm that this is in fact the first
release.
Glen
On 26/08/2010, at 4:04 PM, Julian Carver wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly, congrats to Nadia and Ed for getting the Koordinates metadata feeds
> onto data.govt.nz, fine work folks.
>
> It must be the month for geospatial data, as I note the DOC GIS portal has
> just gone live, at http://gisportal.doc.govt.nz
>
> It has layers for DOC tracks, conservancy boundaries, area boundaries and
> public conservation areas.
>
> Julian
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Hi all,
Firstly, congrats to Nadia and Ed for getting the Koordinates metadata feeds
onto data.govt.nz, fine work folks.
It must be the month for geospatial data, as I note the DOC GIS portal has
just gone live, at http://gisportal.doc.govt.nz
It has layers for DOC tracks, conservancy boundaries, area boundaries and
public conservation areas.
Hi Glen,
The original data.govt.nz entries based on Koordinates layers were
added manually by SSC/DIA staff when data.govt.nz launched. While
those earlier entries are "authoritative" in the sense the data is
sourced from their custodians via the Official Information Act, some
of the data is now out of date. As you know, many GIS data custodians
aren't providing periodic data updates to anyone via the Internet so
it's extremely difficult to keep them up-to-date, e.g. the School
Zones data used by Zoodle (entry #137 referenced by Glen below).
The Koordinates metadata feed referenced by Nadia in her original post
*only* contains NZ governmentt/council items maintained on Koordinates
by their custodians, e.g. Northland Regional Council, Wellington City
Council, Ministry for the Environment, and others to come. They are
all authoritative. The goal going forward is to *only* feed such
authoritative layers into data.govt.nz; the older manual entries will
be pruned out.
Ed
On 26/08/2010, at 2:21 PM, Glen Barnes wrote:
> Hi Nadia,
>
> Can we assume then that these are the authoritative data set for
> these sources? Are there plans to 'stamp' authoritative datasets as
> such on the site. For example with this dataset -
http://www.data.govt.nz/dataset/show/830
> it would be nice to have some form of mark that this is the
> official place to get this from. Other datasets from Koordinates are
> not authoritative (http://www.data.govt.nz/dataset/show/137) and it
> can become confusing as to what is what.
>
> Thanks,
> Glen
>
>
>
> On 26/08/2010, at 12:39 PM, Nadia Webster wrote:
>
>> Big thanks to Koordinates for all the work they've done to supply a
>> feed of metadata to data.govt.nz. We are now listing GIS datasets
>> from Northland Regional Council, Wellington City Council and the
>> Ministry for the Environment.
>>
>> Metadata from from Treasury is also now sourced from a feed.
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Hi Nadia,
Can we assume then that these are the authoritative data set for these sources?
Are there plans to 'stamp' authoritative datasets as such on the site. For
example with this dataset - http://www.data.govt.nz/dataset/show/830 it would
be nice to have some form of mark that this is the official place to get this
from. Other datasets from Koordinates are not authoritative
(http://www.data.govt.nz/dataset/show/137) and it can become confusing as to
what is what.
Thanks,
Glen
On 26/08/2010, at 12:39 PM, Nadia Webster wrote:
> Big thanks to Koordinates for all the work they've done to supply a feed of
metadata to data.govt.nz. We are now listing GIS datasets from Northland
Regional Council, Wellington City Council and the Ministry for the Environment.
Big thanks to Koordinates for all the work they've done to supply a feed of
metadata to data.govt.nz. We are now listing GIS datasets from Northland
Regional Council, Wellington City Council and the Ministry for the Environment.
Metadata from from Treasury is also now sourced from a feed.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:54 AM, laurence.millar
<email obscured>> wrote:
> Hope to see some of the ninjas on Saturday
Regrettably I can't make it. Budget is a tad tight, and I used up a
stack of leave recovering from the Flu.
I really hope this is a success. I fear however that the crazies will
take over. I would strongly encourage a process that is evidence based
and peer reviewed. Oprn Data obviously has a critical role, as without
objective data how can we develop policy based on it? Just letting
everyone "have input" isn't going to be productive unless you have an
objective way to sieve the wheat from the chaff.
Regards,
Peter Harrison