[Ottawa_users] Fwd: [Geonet_list] The White House using OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap

[Scott Mitchell]

For all you with "gosling interests"...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alexandre Leroux <alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca>
> Date: May 4, 2009 14:52:11  GMT-04:00
> To: GeoNET Mailing List <geonet_list at ec.gc.ca>
> Subject: [Geonet_list] The White House using OpenLayers and  
> OpenStreetMap
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I've been encouraged to share this with the list. The White House now
> uses OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap for their web mapping:
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/
>
> You can learn a little more on
> http://highearthorbit.com/us-government-and-open-mapping/
>
> This is great news. OpenLayers, is also the open source web mapping  
> tool
> we use (along with MapFish) at the CMC. It allowed us to develop very
> quickly (matter of days) a fully functional prototype for  
> meteorological
> data diffusion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
> -- 
> Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
> Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
> Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
> Section de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
> Environmental Emergency Response Section
> alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca
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