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Over the recent several years governments have begun publishing more of their quality local data online. The reasons vary but typically range from inventive and progressive thinking administrations to decreed government mandate.

Publishing data online is not as straight-forward as it may first appear. It is easy for an organization to simply create a webpage [...]

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Last Week I participated in a panel with spatial archival experts at the at the Society of American Archivists. Led by Butch Lazorchak of the Library of Congress, and also joined by Steve Morris from GeoMAPP, and John Faundeen from USGS, the panel was a full spectrum discussion of “Geospatial Data Preservation” ranging [...]

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To be honest I haven’t played with Fusion Tables as much as I should have by now, but this weekend I thought, “why not?”. First off, I decided to try messing around and get some Fusion Tables data mapped in GeoCommons. As it turns out GeoCommons was fully ready for this, as was Fusion Tables, so doing this way all REALLY EASY. Since it was so easy I started, and nearly finished another , related hack, but more on that another day…

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Yesterday we announced the availability of GeoIQ Connect, an integrated component of the GeoIQ platform that enables users to quickly and easily access information stored in relational and NoSQL databases. You can now combine publicly and file-based data with database and internal data regardless [...]

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