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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

No OA for German geodata

Klaus Graf reports that Germany's new cabinet-level regulation to implement the EU's INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) does not provide OA.  Read his post in German or Google's English.

Klaus adds by email that most geodata will be gratis, but only for sampling, to let users decide whether to pay for it.  Weather data will not even be gratis for sampling.  Apparently no data will be libre OA, and will not even allow printing.