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WisconsinView dedicates 6+ terabytes of data to the public domain

As of July 1, WisconsinView, an effort to make available a variety of types of imagery for the state of Wisconsin, will make their data available in the public domain via CC0. This news was brought to us by Puneet Kishor, a Science Commons fellow.
From the press release:
“Since 2004, WisconsinView  has made aerial photography and [...]

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