Vivek's background is encouraging, but the federal level is a different ball of wax. For (relatively static) data sets, format is trivial. Data is still the issue and nothing vivek or anybody at the federal level will change this--this is analogous to education policy in the US-the feds do little (policy and $$) and everything happens at the local level (curriculum and funding)
Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 San Francisco CA 94107 T.415.946.8170 x800 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com/blog ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: Joshua Lieberman <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Sean Gorman <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Mar 09 10:48:01 2009 Subject: Re: [Geowanking] CIO and data dot gov 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/ >> >> >> >> >> ---- >> Meet Wired's take on data dot gov >> http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.3/1973 - Release Date: 03/08/09 17:17:00
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