Why should you care whether European tax payers get free access to the geographic data collected with their own money?

• Do you read maps, on paper or on the internet?

• Do you use public transport, or drive on roads?

• Do you vote in local and national elections?

• Do you care for your local environment and neighbourhood?

If you do, then you use geographic information: the wealth of geographic information that makes all these things possible and meaningful, that is often collected by tax-funded national mapping agencies.

If the INSPIRE directive is adopted, all this information, these agencies will be encouraged to copyright all that publically funded information, making it more difficult and expensive for people to participate in the activities listed above.

You can stop this happening in easy steps, and keep our geodata public!