The new CIO for the United States Government is pushing for a new web-site used to distribute government data to the public. Sound's like the CIO is also an advocate of open source software and open file format. Is this an exiting shift in the way the government distributes data (including geospatial data)?
One can only hope. :]
Here are a couple of articles about the data.gov portal:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/white-house-names-first-chief-information-officer/
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data
The Sunburned Surveyor
Monday, March 09, 2009
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