Save the Rain App Calculates Your Saved Water

Interesting use of open data...

http://blog.gisuser.com/2013/05/31/save-the-rain-app-calculates-your-saved-water-with-opendata-apps4ottawa-challenge/

Hawaii Uses Collaborate.org as its Data Sharing Backbone

Another Data Sharing Story...

http://www.govtech.com/geospatial/Hawaii-Uses-Collaborate-org-as-its-Data-Sharing-Backbone.html#continued

Alberta Open Data

Yay Province of Alberta!

http://data.alberta.ca/

When Government Shuts Down Open Government - Canada Post Suing Over the use of the Postal Code

This is very unfortunate...

http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/29776/222/

Providing web access to usable open geospatial data

GeoREST may be something of interest to anyone going down the Open Data path...

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2013/04/providing-web-access-to-usable-open-geospatial-data.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

David Eaves and Open Government

David Eaves is well known as an advocate for open government. Check out his blog for interesting ideas…

http://eaves.ca/

Alberta GeoDiscover = wow.

I'm probably coming across this long after everyone else is well aware of it, but Alberta Gov's GeoDiscover site....pretty amazing.
Uses ESRI's Community Maps as one of the base maps, and seems to combine a data catalogue with data viewer.   Pretty slick and expansive...
Add map services, shapefiles, csvs...
http://maps.srd.alberta.ca/GDA_Viewer/Viewer.ashx?Viewer=GDA
Steve

What is the National Information Sharing Consortium

How many of you have heard of this? Yes it's in the US but perhaps we can learn or benefit.

http://nisconsortium.org/

Open source geospatial LocationTech launched

This group was established in Feb 2013 and seem to have some interesting plans.

http://locationtech.org/

Province of B.C, Canada forges ahead with OpenData initiatives

Although from last month, still relevant...

http://blog.gisuser.com/2013/02/24/province-of-b-c-canada-forges-ahead-with-opendata-initiatives/