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From: Courtney Thomas (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 19:59:17 EST
Mike,
I'm late to the party and ignorant, so please overlook my ineptitude.
How does this affect me as a sailor, please ?
Cordially,
Courtney
Mike Batchelor wrote:
> The NOAA has adopted a new environmental data access policy for all
> the agencies under it, including the National Weather Service. Here's
> the new policy:
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> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/partnershippolicy/
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> I saw this news posted on Slashdot.org, where the geeks are claiming
> to have influenced the decision to adopt an open-access policy. The
> comments submitted in support of open-access from a Slashdot referral
> are indeed about 1/3 of all comments, so they may have a claim.
> http://weather.gov/im/fwcomments.htm Have a look at the comments,
> there are a whole bunch of nearly identical form letters opposing the
> new policy, the first of which was posted by a Director of Sale &
> Media for Accuweather, Inc. Accuweather, of course, would profit
> immensely if the data collected with public funds that their business
> depends on could be locked up in proprietary formats that only they
> were the gatekeepers for. It is nice to see government responding to
> the needs of the public, rather than to paid lobbyists for a change.
> It is ironic, I think, that the bureaucracy is often more responsive
> to the public than elected officials themselves.
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> In any event, the NOAA's new policy, adopted in spite of opposition
> from commercial weather interests, will ensure all its data and
> products will me made "available in internet-accessible,
> vendor-neutral form and will use other dissemination technologies,
> e.g. satellite broadcast, NOAA Weather Radio, and wireless, as
> appropriate." To underscore the rationale that guided this policy
> decision, the new policy lists as the first principle: "Mission
> connection: NOAA's information services will support the NOAA mission.
> As a government agency, NOAA recognizes its core responsibility to
> protect life and property."
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> Accuweather can launch their own satellites and setup their own sensor
> network if they want to charge premium fees for access to their
> proprietary information.
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