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White House to tie together mapping and data sites

[From Nextgov.com]

White House to tie together mapping and data sites

By Aliya Sternstein 05/28/2010

The White House has contracted with a major developer of mapping software to merge a federal website that publishes geospatial information with Data.gov,the government's depot for downloadable data sets,the company's president said on Thursday.

California-based ESRI began last summer tying Data.gov to Geodata.gov,the geospatial information gateway,said company President Jack Dangermond in an interview with Nextgov. He said he expects Geodata.gov's map services,which enable Web-based applications from different sources to communicate with each other,to be available on Data.gov within …[...]

GIS and Twitter mash-up

 From GISUser at http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=6962

Social Media and Geo-Services – A Fabulous ArcGIS Explorer,Twitter mashup

Modeling real-time situations… This video goes back a few months to the Haiti disaster response,however,its a great example and reminder of how geo technology (ArcGIS Explorer in this case) and social media (Twitter) can be combined [...]

"BP tries to mislead you with graphs"—From FlowingData

 Go to:http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/26/bp-tries-to-mislead-you-with-graphs/

BP tries to mislead you with graphs

By Nathan Yau –May 26,2010 –Mistaken DataPost on Twitter

BP tries to mislead you with graphs

BP senior vice president Kent Wells explains in this new video what his group is doing towards repairing the leak. He presents the bar graph above to show the improvement in their efforts. It's increasing,so they must be improving. Nifty. The problem is that it's cumulative,and the rate at which they're collecting isn't improving.

From the Maddow blog:

[T]hose green bars go up because the tube has been in place since May 16. …[...]