Joshua Lieberman wrote:
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.
Fortunately, Vivek has shown this understanding by offering data from DC
OCTO (and rumored that his hands were behind recovery.gov) in a variety
for formats: CSV, GeoRSS, generic XML, ESRI Shapefile.
Similar for Recovery.gov there will be (Geo)AtomPub, RDFa, and
Linked-open-data (sioc-project.org). Users can choose the format that is
appropriate to their use.
The DC Data catalog is also interesting in how the data gets turned into
a feed. They setup automatic publishing that goes from the Police
digital field report, remove 'private' data attributes (e.g. people's
names) and push out as feeds.
Andrew
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
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/
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Meet Wired's take on data dot gov
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data
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