[TCMUG] Open Data and esri?

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

I think that they got behind on the 'trend of open data' and other products have been gaining a lot of momentum in that space.  This new initiative appears to be an extension of ArcGIS Online.  

I agree with Brian though, open data and open data formats are two different things.  ESRI has continued to make conscious decisions to create and promote their own proprietary data formats.

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Subject: Re: [TCMUG] Open Data and esri?

Open Data was also a keynote at this weeks WI GIS conference from a City of Madison Council member and has been a policy other Cities are putting into place.

I think you have to make sure you are differeniating between what is meant by Open Data Initiatives and Open formats/standards.  They have different meanings in this context.

Brian Fischer
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On Feb 14, 2014, at 2:18 PM, "Nancy Read" <nancread at mmcd.org<mailto:nancread at mmcd.org>> wrote:

What have you-all heard about this? (from Andrew Turner)

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2014/02/10/preview-of-open-data/

Good buzzwords, but so far my experience getting web services from Arc shops has been a bit iffy?
- Nancy Read
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