Merry GIS Day 2011
Who knew that way back when the great communicator was President and signed a proclamation, we’d be having a celebration around the world for GIS.
Geography Week
Later that week, Reagan told Gobry to tear down that wall.
I’m just wondering when we’ll have Geography Month. I can’t get out all my 3D Globes in time to pull them right back down the day after. Will Obama sign the Geography Month proclamation so we can have the time we deserve. November is a lost month between Halloween and Christmas, we might as well celebrate something (I’m all for Thanksgiving, but even the Canadian’s won’t celebrate that with us).
Am I the only one who has GIS Day sneak up on them? I didn’t get a chance to head down to the card store to buy Paul anything.
Geoplatform.gov — Yet another Government Portal to Ignore
So I saw this early this morning:
The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps.
This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package. Users including the public, federal agencies and their partners can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and applications, as well as access data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments.
“The Geospatial Platform will provide a user-friendly “one-stop shop” for place-based data you can trust, and the tools to display that data on a map platform,” said Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science.
So it is just like every other government portal, irrelevant to most people and has a quirky interface most users can’t figure out. These geo-government portals just remind me of a movie where the day keeps repeating.
Geoplatform.gov — Yet another Government Portal to Ignore
So I saw this early this morning:
The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps.
This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package. Users including the public, federal agencies and their partners can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and applications, as well as access data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments.
“The Geospatial Platform will provide a user-friendly “one-stop shop” for place-based data you can trust, and the tools to display that data on a map platform,” said Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science.
So it is just like every other government portal, irrelevant to most people and has a quirky interface most users can’t figure out. These geo-government portals just remind me of a movie where the day keeps repeating.
NASA’s OnEarth Has Been Abandoned
Paul Ramsey noted this morning that OnEarth is no more.
This server no longer provides full WMS services for any of the datasets. Furthermore, the MODIS daily mosaics are no longer being updated. The tiled WMS access, described in the Tiled WMS and Google Earth KML support will stay operational. This includes access to the archived of MODIS daily mosaics, which were built from 2006 to the end of 2010.
Interesting as this was a great resource that I’m not sure was freely available elsewhere.
OneEarthWMS
It’s the One Earth that I know…
NASA’s OnEarth Has Been Abandoned
Paul Ramsey noted this morning that OnEarth is no more.
This server no longer provides full WMS services for any of the datasets. Furthermore, the MODIS daily mosaics are no longer being updated. The tiled WMS access, described in the Tiled WMS and Google Earth KML support will stay operational. This includes access to the archived of MODIS daily mosaics, which were built from 2006 to the end of 2010.
Interesting as this was a great resource that I’m not sure was freely available elsewhere.
OneEarthWMS
It’s the One Earth that I know…
Atanas Entchev’s Motion Has Been Denied
Unfortunately, this is not good news.