[Gfoss] Fwd: Free online access to Irish environmental data

[Piergiorgio Cipriano]

(scusate cross-posting)

5Tb di dati ambientali del Department of Communications, Energy and Natural
Resources<http://www.dcmnr.gov.ie/Press+Releases/Ryan+announces+free+online+access+to+Departmental+spatial+data.htm>irlandese
(equivalente al  Ministero dell'Ambiente ?) saranno scaricabili
gratuitamente da web.
...
More than 5Tb of spatial data will now be made available for free download.
These services will be made available via the Department's website and the
University sector's internet backbone, the HEAnet.
...

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 *Roger Longhorn <ral a alum.mit.edu>*
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Thanks to Darius Bartlett for the heads up on this from Ireland.

Kind regards

Roger Longhorn
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Ryan announces free online access to Departmental spatial data
"Natural resource deposit locations, licence areas & groundwater
information now available online"

Dublin, 17 October 2007

Minister Eamon Ryan today announced that he would be making the bulk of the
digital data held in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural
Resources available to people freely and easily online.

More than 5Tb of spatial data will now be made available for free
download. These services will be made available via the Department's website
and the University sector's internet backbone, the HEAnet.

Commenting on the announcement Minister Ryan said, "The free
dissemination of this data is intended to stimulate the environmental,
exploration, construction, and geoscience sectors. Some of the data could
prove very useful for companies exploring for oil and gas resources for
example. It will also provide important data for planners in achieving
sustainable and responsible development and assist in the planning of major
infrastructure projects."

The bulk of the Department's spatial data is within the Natural
Resources sector, and initial datasets available will include licence
boundaries and drill hole locations from the Petroleum Affairs Division,
significant deposit locations and prospecting licence areas from Exploration
and Mining Division and a wide range of marine, bedrock geology, soil,
groundwater, mineral and geotechnical data from the Geological Survey of
Ireland as well as the Marine Institute.

Additional spatial datasets will come from the Department's Engineering
Division, whose coastal photos are collected for coastal protections work.
The offshore datasets collected by the Department's and Marine Institute's
joint sea bed mapping projects, the Irish National Seabed Survey, and its
successor INFOMAR will also be made available.

"This project is an important component of an overall plan to make
Ireland an internationally renowned destination for geoscience research.
The Government has committed to investing a total of €43 million over the
next seven years in the geoscience sector and I hope to soon see many more
exciting new geoscience projects that could potentially transform our
lives," concluded Minister Ryan.

ENDS
For further media information, please contact:-

    * Brid McGrath, Press Advisor: Office +353 1 678 2440 / Mobile: 087
770 8631
    * Ken Cleary, Press Officer: Office +353 1 678 2441 / Mobile: 087
905 9618
    * Email: press.office a dcmnr.gov.ie



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