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GeoSur, the open access geospatial data sharing site for Latin America and the Caribbean, was discussed as a case model at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi last week. The site has proved a useful tool for GIS users in the region that want to perform spatial analysis, and it has also assisted [...]
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has launched a new website to make its data accessible at developer.nrel.gov. The first data set that has been made available is the location of alternative fueling stations from electricity, biodiesel, ethanol and natural gas. The data is primed for the development of a mobile location-based application or the addition [...]
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NASA is working with space agencies around the world to make the International Space Station more open for scientists and citizens as a platform to address challenges of global importance. The International Space Apps Challenge embraces open data, open source, and open technology to accelerate the creation of solutions. The application challenge is currently in [...]
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The UN Environmental Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP WCMC), with the mission of sourcing, collating and verifying information on biodiversity and ecosystems, have released 16 of their global environmental legacy datasets. These datasets have all been inputs to there many world atlases, including the World Atlas of Biodiversity, The World’s Protected Areas, The Conservation Atlas [...]
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Peter Ter Haar, director or products at Ordnance Survey, gave the opening keynote this morning at the FOSS4G event. The organization is responsible for the most accurate and up-to-date map in the world, with half a billion data points, making five thousand changes every day, with 99.9% of real world changes represented in the database. [...]
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It’s now the eve of the State of the Map (SOTM) and Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) events, which take place back-to-back in Denver. The OpenStreetMap and FOSS4G communities will converge to cover open data and open source software, with a focus on development tools, applications, and shared objectives. The combined audience [...]
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The province of British Columbia is the first in Canada to launch an open data portal that allows both developers and citizens to download and explore large volumes of government information. The impressive data catalog includes 2,500 sets of data, tools to conduct research and analyze statistics, as well as tools to develop custom applications. [...]
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The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (DWFW) has just launched a free online mapping tool that displays information about key fish and wildlife species and critical wildlife habitat. The Priority Habitats and Species site unlocks much of the information needed by local, state and federal agencies for land-use permits that used to require [...]
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While the World Bank launched the interactive Mapping for Results (M4R) site in October of last year as part of a new open data initiative, today marks the official launch in conjunction with the World Bank Spring Meetings. This portal introduces a new level of transparency on the location of World Bank projects, their progress, [...]
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Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web, was back at TED again this year to continue the rally cry for “raw data now,” but this time with a presentation of successes. In the video he chronicles primarily mapping mashups, showing how the open data can be mined for information. Be sure to watch the [...]
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