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Interior Launches New Crowdsourcing Map Portal
By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 10 November 2011. "The Interior Department launched a new Web tool Thursday that pulls together a slew of interactive, government-produced maps that users can mash together and lay their own data on top of.
The "geospatial platform," which Interior said is a prototype, also includes some maps from state, local and tribal governments..."
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Last updated: 14 November 20112
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- State-of-the-art platform has tools for the public to create maps, share information. US Department of the Interior Press Release, 9 November 2011. "WASHINGTON, D.C.—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..."
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- "The Geospatial Platform provides shared and trusted geospatial data, services, and applications for use by government agencies, their partners and the public... Federal agencies and their partners collect and manage large amounts of geospatial data - but these data are often not easily found when needed or accessible in useful forms. The Geospatial Platform provides ready access to federally maintained geospatial data, services and applications..."
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