[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 …[...]
