In 2007 I was in Hobart, Tasmania at the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference, and I was fascinated to hear a presentation by Tim Barker and Neale Hooper of the Government of Queensland called Open Content Licensing of Government Information – Creating a Spatial Information Creative Commons (A legal platform to support inter-jurisdictional sharing of data), outlining a proposal for enabling sharing data within the Government of Queensland by releasing all data under a Creative Commons license. A year later at a GITA ANZ conference Jose Diacono and Danny Broadbent, who are associated with the Victorian Spatial Council, described a framework for sharing data based on licenses and metadata, not only within the Government of Victoria, but also among utilities, telecommunications firms, National Government, other government, quasi-government, and non-government organizations. Read More
