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Creating Cross-Government Success with Authoritative Data Sharing

Vivian Tang
March 31, 2021 • 6 min

By making authoritative data readily available and easily accessible across city, county, and state lines, governments can better support initiatives and achieve shared goals.

The Importance of the OGC & Open Standards

Dean Hintz
March 17, 2021 • 11 min

By utilizing open standards, users can choose best of breed tools for each application and move data between them with open methods. See where the OGC fits in to all of this, and l...

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

Tiana Warner
May 10, 2016 • 10 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 ...

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