Executive order for Open Data in the US Federal Government

This would seem to be a positive development...

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2013/05/executive-order-makes-open-and-machine-readable-data-the-default-for-the-us-federal-government.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

Save the Rain App Calculates Your Saved Water

Interesting use of open data...

http://blog.gisuser.com/2013/05/31/save-the-rain-app-calculates-your-saved-water-with-opendata-apps4ottawa-challenge/

Hawaii Uses Collaborate.org as its Data Sharing Backbone

Another Data Sharing Story...

http://www.govtech.com/geospatial/Hawaii-Uses-Collaborate-org-as-its-Data-Sharing-Backbone.html#continued

Alberta Open Data

Yay Province of Alberta!

http://data.alberta.ca/