November 11, 2010 – Anything Geospatial

Here’s details of a cool, new, open community mashup creation service from TargetMaps – the @TargetMap crew sent us a tip off this morning via Twitter. The service enables rapid creation of online map mashups, facilitates simple sharing and community collaboration and even offers a paid for option (nominal fee) for those who want to share data with colleagues but not make it open to the public. The social sharing functionality built in to the service is very useful and options are also provided to grab the code and embed your map or see also related maps from other users. See http://www.targetmap.com

The map below is a mashup showing USA hospital locations along with some tabular data

USA Hospitals

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An interesting, open initiative from Alberta, Canada… This PDC provides a means of increasing public access to data managed by The City; supporting not only transparency in government, but also innovation and reuse of the data by citizens and community based organizations. This service is provided in the expectation that the data provided will be used in applications that will enhance the public good. Data provided here is available in a number of formats and currently is primarily geospatial in nature. In determining what data sets to provide as part of this pilot initiative, consideration was given to balancing the provision of data publically while respecting privacy and security concerns. Data are in available in multiple formats including: SHP, DWG, KML, CSV
See http://calgaryonlinestore.com/publicdata.asp