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Title: Open-Access Geospatial Data: Promise and Potential

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2015.1125405

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Abstract: In June 2009, the United States became the first country in the world to make all of its government data “open by default,” except for personal information and information related to national security. To date, nearly 190,000 datasets have been posted on the Data.gov website (Figure 1). Over 50 other nations around the world—such as Tunisia and Ukraine—have followed the example of Data.gov and made a wide variety of their government data openly accessible to its citizens and businesses (U.S. General Services Administration 2015). The list of open-access datasets goes on and on. Take, for instance, the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. It holds the world’s largest civilian archive of images of the Earth’s surface (Figure 2). The archive spans from 1937 to present-day satellite images of the Earth (U.S. Geological . . .

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15420353.2015.1125405

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Authors: Blatt, Amy J.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Map & Geography Libraries

Issue: 2

Volume: 12

Pages: 216-222

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

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