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Guide to Open Data: Using it, Sharing it, and Creating a Portal

Tiana Warner
May 10, 2016 • 9 min

Exploring what open data means, who produces and consumes it, best practices for integrating it in your workflows, and recommendations for sharing your own data with the world.

Norway Minecraft Project Paves the Way to Open Data in the Cloud

Kris Majury
July 15, 2015 • 6 min

What started out as a fun project in support of kids at an annual Hackathon event quickly turned into a real-world test bed for an upcoming cloud-based open data portal rollout –...

Arkansas’ Open Data: An ROI Case for the Cloud

Kris Majury
June 19, 2015 • 4 min

The Arkansas GIS Office migrates their Open Data portal to the cloud, and the upsides are measurable - in technological advantages and many, many dollars saved.

Import Your Data to Google Maps Engine – Atlas Unbound!

Tiana Warner
April 14, 2014 • 7 min

Google Maps Gallery is an online atlas meant to unlock geospatial information from organizations across the globe. Alongside the ArcGIS Open Data initiative, it’s an exciting...

Best Practices for Geospatial Data Sharing Released by NSGIC

Dale Lutz
November 15, 2011 • 4 min

Fellow Safer Drew Rifkin recently came back from the NSGIC 2011 Annual Conference touting NSGIC’s new Geospatial Data Sharing Guidelines for Best Practices document. While Sa...

What’s Next for Geo in 2011: My 5 Predictions

Michael Weisman
January 5, 2011 • 5 min

2010 was a great year for geo. Consumer geo apps like Fourquare and Gowalla took off, while us professional geonerds got some cool new tools too. While making predictions can be a ...

What Can Architects Learn from their Data-Savvy GIS Cousins?

Dale Lutz
November 10, 2010 • 3 min

While GISers thrive on data, architects seem to exist in a vacuum of data, something which I feel has to change and will change - soon.

Tricky Transit Data. Is Transiki the Answer?

Michael Weisman
October 28, 2010 • 2 min

I have always loved working with transit data. It is so similar to road data like TIGER or OSM that we work with so often, but at the same time it is so much different. While a roa...

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