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Geospatial Platform (Quick Intro and…) Update

April 1, 2014National Geospatial Advisory Committee

Jerry Johnston

US Department of the Interior

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Geoplatform.govGoals:

Facilitate understanding via expanded use of geospatial data and tools

Search/Catalog shared with data.gov Focus on NGDAs / A-16 data Focus on non-experts / decision makers Content organized by Communities

A-16 Theme Communities Cross-Agency Collaboration Communities Agency “storefront” Communities

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Planning to achieve the vision…

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Open Data

President Obama released Executive Order May 9, 2013 “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for

Government Information”

OMB Memorandum M-13-13 “Open Data Policy – Managing Information as an Asset” Project Open Data

Catalog

Map Galleries

Marketplace

Resources and Dashboards

Featured Maps and Apps

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Geoplatform.gov – What’s NewWorking on award of new IDIQ support contract for Geospatial Platform technical development and PMOGeospatial hosting infrastructure offering being finalizedRecently supported Climate Data Initiative Release of 12 public layers from Homeland Security

Infrastructure Protection (HSIP) critical infrastructure data

Partnership with Data.gov http://www.geoplatform.gov/climate-resources

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What’s New, con’t

OGC Catalog Service for the Web releasedCommunities scheduled to come online before end of April A-16 Theme Communities NGA World Wide Human Geography Working

Group DHS Geospatial Concept of Operations

(GeoCONOPS)

Communities – A-16 Themes

Communities – Interdisciplinary

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Catalog Service for the Web (CS-W)

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Questions?