Goals
Founded on the idea that public data is not truly public if it is not freely accessible, the OMG standard project has several goals:
- To develop an open technical standard for the structuring and sharing of public geodata
- To develop a library of case-studies, documentation and source materials supporting the benefits of making public geodata easily accessible
- To help build and empower a broad community of citizens and government officials working to foster adoption of the standard by their local governments
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
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—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
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—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)