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.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/01/2008 10:38:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.