Amen. After all, it's almost all geographic in some aspect. Some of
the aspect, though, really is "rocket science", e.g. which coordinate
reference system is used to represent the impact zone when the rocket
falls...
Making geospatial a mainstream aspect of government data means somehow
getting the constraints and affordances of geospatial representation
to tag along wherever it goes.
Josh
On Mar 9, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Sean Gorman wrote:
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
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2200 Wilson Blvd. suite 307
Arlington, VA 22201
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----- 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/
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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.
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