5-Star Open Data Approach

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year!

You may find this quite interesting related to Open Data:

http://5stardata.info/en/

U.S. lags behind the developed world with lack of national address database

Isn't this interesting?

http://gisandscience.com/2015/11/17/u-s-lags-behind-the-developed-world-with-lack-of-national-address-database/

Example of Public Agency Portal in UK

I wonder if our Federal or Provincial governments might have something like this one day...

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2015/nov/20/news1.html

http://www.geohive.ie/

FAA releases B4UFLY App Beta Test For Drone Users

Available in the US but not Canada yet…




http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/faa-releases-b4ufly-app-beta-test-for-drone-users/

Saskatoon committee wants drones banned from parks

Some developments in the drone world:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-committee-wants-drones-banned-from-parks-1.3195740

GIS Monitoring Tool

Some of you might find this a useful tool:

http://www.geopropel.com/igeoasset/

Geospatial contributes $21 billion to the Canadian GDP

Although now a little outdated, still a good reference:

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2015/04/geospatial-contributed-21-billion-to-the-canadian-gdp.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

What are the FOSS equivalents to these ArcGIS products?

Perhaps good for those with strained budgets, looking for alternative technologies and/or to run alongside ESRI?

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/13171/what-are-the-foss-equivalents-to-these-arcgis-products

Augmented reality standard adopted by OGC

This should be seen as a good step.

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2015/03/augmented-reality-standard-adopted-by-ogc.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

Sharing Web GIS Services? Always enable TLS

This is something those of you running web services should be aware of:

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/03/11/sharing-web-gis-services-always-enable-tls/