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HomeBetween the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss ArchivesAccess to Spatial Data

Access to Spatial Data

Access to Spatial Data

Canada’s open geospatial data initiative

7 May 2014 Geoff Zeiss

At the Geospatial World Forum in Geneva, as part of a ministerial panel discussion on government’s role in evolving geospatial policy for national and regional development, Prashant Shukle, Director General of the Canada Centre for […]

3D cadastre

Progress on the Dutch 3D geospatial standard-integration with open source geospatial tools

1 May 2014 Geoff Zeiss

At the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam two years ago, Jantien Stoter of the Delft Univeristy of Technology and an advisor to Geonovum, gave an overview of the work on a Dutch 3D standard, which […]

Access to Spatial Data

Crowdsourcing geospatial data for authoritative government databases and NSDI

1 May 2014 Geoff Zeiss

Since Google Earth’s release in June 2005, national mapping agencies (NMCAs) and other government organizations involved with geospatial data and technology have been reassessing their role.  At the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) in Amsterdam two […]

Access to Spatial Data

OGC’s Geopackage standard enables geospatial data sharing for mobile devices

17 December 2013 Geoff Zeiss

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s draft GeoPackage (GPKG) standard is an open, app-independent, platform-independent, portable, interoperable, self-describing data container and API.  This standard is intended to support multiple mapping and geospatial applications such as fixed product […]

Access to Spatial Data

Spatial interoperability is a model for the benefits of interoperability

4 November 2013 Geoff Zeiss

In August 2004, the NIST released a study that attempted to identify and estimate the efficiency losses in the U.S. capital facilities industry resulting from inadequate interoperability among computer-aided design, engineering, and software systems.  This […]

Access to Spatial Data

Who pays for public access to open data ?

22 August 2013 Geoff Zeiss

I have blogged frequently about the world-wide trend toward free and open access to government spatial data.  In general this has meant that instead of users paying for access to spatial data, the government pays […]

No Picture
Access to Spatial Data

Orange County parcel file now freely downloadable

7 August 2013 Geoff Zeiss

I blogged previously about a court case involving Orange County in California about open access to county GIS data under California’s Public Records Acts (PRA).  After trying to obtain Orange County’s parcel file at the […]

Access to Spatial Data

Open data in Victoria, Australia

25 July 2013 Geoff Zeiss

I have always been impressed with the appoach to sharing spatial data in the State of Victoria in Australia.  In 2008 I heard a presentation by Jose Diacono and Danny Broadbent who were associated with […]

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