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Châtenay-Malabry (FR
- 92290), 16 January 2012
EFITA newsletter / 549 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
I have to inform all my FRIENDS who have sent me their best wishes
promising…
Happiness, Fortune & Money… for 2011.
IT HAS NOT WORKED!!!
So, regarding your wishes for 2012,
Please send me directly the money.
I will also accept the bottles … and the chocolates.
THANKS.
AFIA, French member of Efita, is eventually developing its own web
site
You will find the archive of efita newsletter of 2012 on this web
site.
See for example:
http://www.informatique-agricole.org/gazette/efita/efita_120102_547.htm
http://www.informatique-agricole.org/gazette/efita/efita_120109_548.htm
http://www.informatique-agricole.org/gazette/efita/efita_120116_549.htm
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17th annual conference of the Agricultural Extension Society Of Nigeria
(AESON): Agricultural Extension Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation
11 – 14 March, 2012 – NSUKKA (Nigeria)
E-mail: aesonconference2012(a)unn.edu.ng
Why are you making OpenStreetMap?
Geographical data (geo data) is not free in many parts of the world.
Generally these places have given the task of mapping to various government
agencies who in return get to make money by selling the data back to you
and me. If you live in one of these countries, then your taxes pay for
the mapping and then you have to pay again to get a copy of it. In the
USA crude data (such as TIGER) is in the public domain, however refined data and finished
maps are generally commercially copyrighted.
Data from commercial maps sometimes contain lies, or Copyright Easter Eggs, to catch anyone copying
it. These Easter eggs take the form of fake or missing streets, or features
like churches and schools that don't in fact exist. If you make a map
using their data, they can say "ah-ha! Gotcha!" from looking
if you also copied these fake pieces of map. The map may also just be
incorrect because for example you bought it a year ago and a path has
been dug up in your local park since, or someone just made a mistake.
If you accept all of this then you still can't do anything with the data
but photocopy it. In lots of places that's illegal too if you go beyond
your fair use rights. You can't correct a street name, or add the pub/bar
over the road, or use the data in a computer program without paying a
lot of money. More money than you probably have. What about sending it
to a friend, enclosing it in an invitation or posting it on a notice board?
A lot of these are less legal than you might think.
Advances in technology like cheap GPS units mean you can now create your
own maps, in collaboration with others and have none of the restrictions
outlined above. The ability to do so allows you to regain a little bit
of the community you live in - if you can't map it, you can't describe
it.
See: http://openstreetmap.org/
An amazing list of hoax about Barack Obama
See: http://www.hoaxbusters.org/obama.html
Married Men
At a wedding party recently someone yelled, "All the married
men please stand next to the one person who has made your life worth living."
The bartender was crushed to death.
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