Today, we are operating geoinformational applications - among others - through geospatial data resources over internet. National and international organizations have succeeded to overcome restrictions of earlier decades as IT excellence have promoted additional capacity to their frameworks. However, in many countries, there is still more way to go so as to reach a satisfactory, productional level of data dissemination, as well as of their use by end-users. Existing geodata portals from advanced countries into GIS all over the world could give a step forward for further enhancement of this concept and it would be very interesting to all of us to know and reach such perspectives. What alternative - existing - solutions from free geodata dissemination portals would you propose to understand the significance of free dissemination of geospatial data?
To give a first example, in Greece, we have a national agency which performs since 2010 such activities promoting validated geodata to end-users on related geoinformation about the Greek territory.
The website is :
and additional information about it on :
There are many project based gis data which cannot be reached by end users.
Even governmental agencies (http://www.emy.gr/) ask for money for data that should be fully approached by everyone. Of course, there are similar cases in other countries too, however, I believe that there are more money lost from the upcoming applications derived by the use of the datasets. Even INSPIRE directive is not sufficiently operated towards that aim. Any comment would be appreciated.
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