\title{Public Geospatial Data Committee}

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\begin{description}
	\item  [Period covered by report:] Jan-Dec 2007 
	\item  [Contact name:] David Bitner 
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\section*{Key Accomplishments}
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	\item  Presentations and BOF at FOSS4G2007 
	\item  Support of Open Street Map, Open Aerial Map, and the Flight Gear Scenery Project 
	\item  Support of pulling together imagery during San Diego fires 
	\item  First \href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina}{OSGeo Educational data set} available\footnote{Education data set: \url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina}}
\end{itemize}

\section*{Areas for Improvement}
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	\item  Clear mission and direction that make it clear to members and outsiders who we are and what we do 
	\item  Work with others with similar goals so as not to reinvent the wheel 
	\item  Partner with those who need support of our resources 
	\item  Work more closely with Education Committee and education datasets 
	\item  Define clear areas where volunteers can be engaged 
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\section*{Opportunities to Help}
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	\item  Strategic Planning -- without clear direction, it is hard to know where we can put peoples' efforts to work 
	\item  Cataloguing work - both on software setup side (GeoNetwork) and collecting metadata for public data sets 
	\item  \href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Licensing}{Open Geodata Licensing} success stories - writing about how your organisation or project has moved to an open licensing approach, sharing decisions with others\footnote{Open Geodata Licensing success stories: \url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Licensing}}
\end{itemize}

\section*{Outlook for 2008}
\begin{itemize}
	\item  Revised Mission 
	\item  Clear Directions 
	\item  Well defined areas where volunteers can get engaged 
	\item  A ``GeoPortal'' to data running on OSGeo systems 
\end{itemize}
