Comment by dev1ycan
12 hours ago
Do you expect every company to release all their data to the public as well or it's just because you're not invested in this one?
12 hours ago
Do you expect every company to release all their data to the public as well or it's just because you're not invested in this one?
I expect any company which collates information about geospatial datasets to release the substance of them, yes. Maybe there's an IPR lockup window, but at some point the cadastral facts of the world are part of the commons to me.
I would think there's actually a lot of epidemiology data which also should be winding up in the public domain getting locked up in medical IPR. I could make the same case. Cochrane reports rely on being able to do meta analysis over existing datasets. Thats value.
They found a creative way to incentivize the collection of it and paid for the processing. Anybody can collect the same data, I don't see why they would have to release it...
It would be nice of them though.