List of 50+ Federal GIS Servers with Open Data

Although from the US, some of you might find these resources helpful...

https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-GIS-servers.pdf

40 Brilliant Open Data Projects Preparing Smart Cities for 2018

Some great ideas on this list:

https://carto.com/blog/forty-brilliant-open-data-projects-preparing-smart-cities-2018/

U.S. congressional bill to restrict access to open geospatial information

This appears to be a step backward for Open Data:

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2017/03/us-congressional-bill-to-restrict-access-to-open-geospatial-information.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

Postal Codes: Canada Post Backs Down on Crowdsourced Open Data

Very interesting...

http://www.gogeomatics.ca/magazine/postal-codes-canada-post-backs-down-on-crowdsourced-open-data.htm?utm_source=GoGeomatics+Canada+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7cc83dba88-Canadian_Spatial_Times_59_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4512ec0c46-7cc83dba88-53818093

Drone2Map for ArcGIS

For anyone working with ESRI and drone data:


https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2016/05/11/d2m-dronesdowork/

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