Fwd: [Talk-us] keeping the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) dataset open

[Liz Barry]

FYI -- read below to learn about budget impacts to the USDA that would
*potentially* make the NAIP (National Agriculture Imagery Program) no
longer free:
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Liz Barry
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Lee <tl...@mapbox.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:39 AM
Subject: [Talk-us] keeping the National Agricultural Imagery Program
(NAIP) dataset open
To: tal...@openstreetmap.org


The NAIP dataset is valuable for mapping in the continental US, so I
suspect there are more than a few people on this list who share my
alarm at the leaked proposal to move it to a licensed model. My
colleague Charlie just wrote about this on the Mapbox blog:

https://blog.mapbox.com/keeping-naip-free-open-cf9ad9d310be

If you're a NAIP user, please consider writing about why the dataset
is important to you and why it should remain open. Now is the time to
make the case for keeping this resource available to all. Public
statements are the best way to spread the word about this, but if
you'd prefer to stay private, I'm happy to collect testimonials by
email and make sure they get to the right people in government.

If you're interested in staying up to date with how this advocacy
effort is proceeding, there's also a low-volume listserv you can join:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/save-the-naip

Thanks!

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