Sharing cadastral and utility geospatial data in British Columbia

A great example of data sharing in BC. Be sure to check out the data sharing agreement link listed at the bottom of the page:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/zeissg/geospatial

Free software tool VDatum

Some of you might find this tool useful in your work:

http://vdatum.noaa.gov/

Open standard for geotagging SMS text messages

Not sure if any of you use this technology or not:

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/08/open-standard-for-geotagging-sms-text-messages.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29

ArcGIS 10.x Metadata Editor

As many are aware, ESRI has broken most of Metadata Editors that worked in previous versions of ArcGIS, including Three Tab Metadata Editor which many in the CRP use.

While Three Tab itself has not been converted to work with ArcGIS, it was used as a foundation for the US Environmental Protection Agency's version called EME which now does work in ArcGIS 10. While tailored for the EPA, it may be of use to folks moving to ArcGIS 10.

You can find EME here: https://edg.epa.gov/EME/

Ken

OSGeo-Live - Open Source Package

Some of you may want to try this out:

http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

Open Source Software Question

Are any of your organizations using any Open Source software in any way?

If so please you let me know. I'd be very interested in speaking with anyone using Open Source applications in a government environment.

OpenTreeMap - Open Source software for collaborative, geography-enabled urban tree inventory

Some of you might find this interesting:

http://www.azavea.com/products/opentreemap/

British Columbia Opens Province-wide Open Data Portal

http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/british-columbia-opens-province-wide-open-data-portal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SpatialSustain+(Spatial+Sustain)

Canada to Close Nearly All Government Data Centers

Read what our government is up to:

http://www.govtech.com/budget-finance/Canada-to-Close-Nearly-All-Government-Data-Centers.html?elq=f4a5d4399ac94cfd88895897e7a7b86a

BC Opens Government Data Portal

Hello Everyone,

Hope you're all enjoying summer.

Check out this latest news from BC about access to data:

http://blog.gisuser.com/2011/07/20/b-c-canada-opens-government-data-portal-to-all-data_bc/