[Geowanking] CIO and data dot gov

[Sean Gorman]

It is all very encouraging.  My hope is that geospatial data does not get seperated out as its own special domain.  Specifically a situation where you have data.gov and then a seperate location for geospatial data.  In my opinion, when there is a geospatial dimension to the data it should just be another option/method to consume the data, but still be part of the main data consumption/workflow.  If we just build an enhanced "geospatial one stop" geared towards GIS professionals, and is more focused on metadata than actual data we'll be going down the wrong path again.

best,
sean

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From: "P Kishor" <punk.kish at gmail.com>
To: geowanking at geowanking.org
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 10:57:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Geowanking] CIO and data dot gov

Meet Vivek Kundra.

He tweets
http://twitter.com/VivekKundra

Is on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Kundra

Wants to free data
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/vivek-kundra-federal-cio-in-hi.html

Talks about GIS on YouTube (fast forward to 1:13 mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTdg8eGoyk

Has set up a really comprehensive (but not necessarily slick) DC-GIS web page
http://dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/cwp/view,A,1192,Q,499152,octoNav,|32780|.asp

Is now the US CIO
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/white-house-names-first-chief-information-officer/


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Meet Wired's take on data dot gov
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data

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Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/
Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/
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