Every minute the world generates 1.7 million billion bytes of data, equivalent to 360,000 standard DVDs. More digitised data was created in the last two years than in the rest of human history. This trend and the mountains of data it produces is what we call "Big data". The big data sector is growing at […]
Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: 25,000 Manmade Map Features Edited
Since the beginning of The National Map Corps crowd-sourcing project, more than 25,000 structure or manmade feature updates have been submitted to improve our nation’s maps.
Geo Data Tip – Landsat 8 Data Now Available #OpenData
A reminder from the folks at the USGS that Landsat 8 data products are now available
The 2012 USDA CropScape Cropland Data Layer (CDL) is released @ 30m
The 2012 national CDL is released @ 30m – The 2012 cropland data layer (CDL) product for the Continental United States (CONUS) is released in CropScape (http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape) on January 31, 2013. This categorized geospatial product at 30m resolution is produced by U. S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service from satellite observation data and […]
Geo Data Tip – NOAA Data Explorer
A feature and data-rich resource from NOAA provides users with access to a welth of information… The National Ocean Service (NOS) Data Explorer Geoportal application provides centralized access to distributed NOS geospatial data, tools, applications and services. This Web mapping application allows users to search and access geospatial data via the NOS master catalog of […]
A Look At Open Public Transit Data and Maps via Google General Transit Feed Specification (GFTS)
At a recent Geo Tech (aka. GeoGeek) meetup here in Victoria, BC, Canada I was glad to see that Michael Grant, BC Transit Manager of planning and forecasting was in attendance to talk us about Geo technology, transit, and mapping. Grant was there to discuss BC Transit data, Google maps, and other related GeoTech topics […]
State GIS Clearinghouse Feedback Form
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USGS Update – US Topo A New Generation of Maps
An interesting update came our way via the USGS as more than 50% of the Nation is now "covered" by new USGS digital maps; either the US Topo or earlier released "Digital Map – Beta". The number of quads available for free download from the US Store is actually much more than half the contiguous […]
Google sharing data via the Google public data explorer
Continuing with their mandate to index the World’s data, Google has rolled out yet another data sharing resource, the Google public data explorer.
New Geodata and maps for Canada including 2010 Olympic maps and webmaps
An update from Natural Resources Canada provides us with some tips on maps and webmapping resources from Canada including maps for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.