It is all very encouraging. My hope is that geospatial data does not get seperated out as its own special domain. Specifically a situation where you have data.gov and then a seperate location for geospatial data. In my opinion, when there is a geospatial dimension to the data it should just be another option/method to consume the data, but still be part of the main data consumption/workflow. If we just build an enhanced "geospatial one stop" geared towards GIS professionals, and is more focused on metadata than actual data we'll be going down the wrong path again.
best, sean FortiusOne Inc, 2200 Wilson Blvd. suite 307 Arlington, VA 22201 cell - 202-321-3914 ----- Original Message ----- From: "P Kishor" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 10:57:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Geowanking] CIO and data dot gov Meet Vivek Kundra. He tweets http://twitter.com/VivekKundra Is on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Kundra Wants to free data http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/vivek-kundra-federal-cio-in-hi.html Talks about GIS on YouTube (fast forward to 1:13 mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTdg8eGoyk Has set up a really comprehensive (but not necessarily slick) DC-GIS web page http://dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/cwp/view,A,1192,Q,499152,octoNav,|32780|.asp Is now the US CIO http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/white-house-names-first-chief-information-officer/ ---- Meet Wired's take on data dot gov http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ Sent from: Madison WI United States. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
