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No 3:2006
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Invitation to the establishment of a EuroRoadS ForumThe EuroRoadS-project will formally terminate on 31 August 2006, though there are still some reports to be concluded. EuroRoadS has defined common specifications for the provision and exchange of road data, carried out demonstrations and proposed implementation and exploitation activities. A clear interest to support the deployment of the EuroRoadS results have been shown. Therefore the idea to establish a EuroRoadS Forum to promote and exploit the results has been raised. The idea is to engage both providers and users of public/private-sourced road data. Memorandum of UnderstandingA draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been set up as a basis for discussion between potential founders of a EuroRoadS Forum. The final content of the MoU will be decided by stakeholders participating in this process. All providers and users of road data, European organisations working with road information as well as other interested parties are welcome to take part in this process! Meeting on the MoU and strategic issuesA first strategic meeting will take place on 30 November 2006 in Malmö, Sweden. The main topics are to seek an agreement concerning the content of the MoU, the organsiation of a EuroRoadS Forum as well as undertakings from interested parties. More details concerning the venue will be sent to all interested parties.
There are already now about 10 organisations stating their interest in the future development of EuroRoadS, willing to define the future activities. Please reply to the linked address. |
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EuroRoadS Metadata ServerThe EuroRoadS Metadata Server has the purpose to link data providers and data users of EuroRoadS, enabling to enter and change metadata on the one-hand side and query the metadata on the other hand. Leaflet describing the Metadata Server Report from the EuroRoadS Closing WorkshopThe EuroRoadS Closing workshop: “Making EuroRoadS happen” was held on 27 June 2006 in Brussels. The workshop attracted more than 50 participants from 35 organisations within public and private sector, representing 15 European countries. The aim of the workshop was to demonstrate project results, share experiences and discuss recommendations for the next steps to achieve a European road data infrastructure. EuroRoadS framework documentsAll EuroRoadS framework documents will be published and available in a final version 1.0 on www.euroroads.org in October 2006. The foreseen changes compared to current versions (final draft) are minor. The updates of the final versions are based on a broad review as well as findings from the demonstration activities. EuroRoadS NewsletterThis newsletter is published by the EuroRoadS project.As a great interest has been shown to the project it has been decided by the Consortium partners to continue with the Newsletter for a time (after the project end).
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