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Archive for April, 2006

Kofi, we’ve got a problem.

April 4th, 2006 by Eduardo Manchón

Surprisingly Jerusalem was not included in the database of National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) we use in Panoramio. We thought that such a important city should be included, so we manually added it. Just now we realize how clever was the people from NGA “ignoring” the city.
After receiving e-mails, posts in the forum and comments […]

INSPIRE directive should be modified

April 3rd, 2006 by Eduardo Manchón

INSPIRE directive from European Union guarantees the right of the public to discover, and view, geospatial data (mainly maps) for free. That’s good. However access to the geospatial data and the right to republish it are not free of cost under the current wording of this directive.
In the U.S. government geospatial data is completly free […]