Category: Governance

Formats, GeoJSON, github, Governance

More geojson.io work– i.e. a little node and on a little ubuntu

Continuing a previous post https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/a-public-sector-use-for-geojson-io/, I have been exploring the use of geojson.io for an easy to deploy way for folks to edit geojson.  For my purposes this led to a dive into node. Getting node to run well on ubuntu is not as easy as: Nope, tried that. Better to use/get a newer version of node. For this we turn to PPAs (Personal Package Archives). … Continue reading More geojson.io work– i.e. a little node and on a little ubuntu

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github, Governance

A public sector use for geojson.io

Sitting in a meeting Friday, I was struck with a problem that needed solved quickly: we have a land cover classification being done by a third party for which we will have a team of more than a dozen entities doing some validation of the data.  We could print out paper maps for them, but that seems labor intensive and expensive.  So, I proposed we … Continue reading A public sector use for geojson.io

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Governance, licensing

Code license types for public entities

Now that GitHub allows for simple attribution of license types (yay!), for my 200th post I’d like to solicit sources for best practices on licensing of code written by and for municipal entities. There are so many OSS licenses, where is it appropriate to assert rights/control, such as with Copyleft, vs. MIT, vs. public domain, and are State Attorney General’s offices generally equipped to address … Continue reading Code license types for public entities

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