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In the executive session on Spatial Data Infrastructure at the Esri International User Conference there rose a discussion of what SDI means in reaction to Jack Dangermond’s comment that he’d love to move beyond discussion of SDI and rather call it National GIS. A spatial data infrastructure is a bit different than a National GIS [...]
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The National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) met June 8-9, in Washington, D.C. On the agenda were discussions on transportation for the nation, Census address and road features and parcels, and parcel data on tribal lands. There was also concern about the impact on lidar mapping technologies from new Federal Aviation Administration regulations that ban the [...]
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Spatial Data Infrastructure Northwest (SDI-Now) is a grass roots initiative by the City of Springfield and NASA Ames Research Center that is working on spatial data management tools to service government agencies and the private sector. SDI-Now is working with NASA’s World Wind in an effort to use open source technologies and shared services in [...]
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After months of facilitated feedback, Ivan B. DeLoatch, executive director of the Federal Geographic Data Committee, has announced that the Geospatial Platform Roadmap Version 4 has been completed. The document outlines the portfolio of geospatial data, services and applications that will make up the Geospatial Platform for use by government agencies and partners. The final [...]
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The Woods Hole Research Center has just released a new high-resolution data set for the conterminous United States for canopy height, aboveground biomass, and carbon stock for all forests and woodlands. The National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD) provides forest attributes at a 30 m resolution, with digital raster data now freely accessible. Researchers divided [...]
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Google just announced the launch of Google Earth Builder this morning at the Where 2.0 Conference, outlining a cloud-based ecosystem for hosting and creating geospatial data. The new tool will be available in the third quarter of this year, and will harness Google’s impressive computing power to enable enterprises to store and access terabytes of [...]
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Trading off this week’s highly-charged political theme of a potential federal government shutdown in the United States, it’s worth discussing the implications of a lack of federal mapping. Elimination of federal mapmaking is really out of the question as the federal government needs to map for so many policy and security reasons, yet there has [...]
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The Federal Geographic Data Committee quietly launched the Geospatial Platform yesterday, with content, documents and details that frame further data sharing among a host of federal government partners. To date the site is more about framing the common data, services, and applications that are envisioned, and providing details about the objectives of the initiative. The [...]
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A recent conversation with a marketing professional at a geospatial data provider sparked some thought about the construct of layers within GIS, and how layers have their limits. That conversation revolved around vendors and organizations that are so focused on the individual layers that they produce (whether its imagery, vector data, elevation, 3d buildings, roads, [...]
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