Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

Providing web access to usable open geospatial data

GeoREST may be something of interest to anyone going down the Open Data path...

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2013/04/providing-web-access-to-usable-open-geospatial-data.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

David Eaves and Open Government



David Eaves is well known as an advocate for open government. Check out his blog for interesting ideas…

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Alberta GeoDiscover = wow.

I'm probably coming across this long after everyone else is well aware of it, but Alberta Gov's GeoDiscover site....pretty amazing.
Uses ESRI's Community Maps as one of the base maps, and seems to combine a data catalogue with data viewer.   Pretty slick and expansive...
Add map services, shapefiles, csvs...
http://maps.srd.alberta.ca/GDA_Viewer/Viewer.ashx?Viewer=GDA
Steve