The US’ attempt at ’government 2.0‘ – namely the data.gov website – may be shutting down just two years after its launch, due to budget cuts. However, there is a movement trying to save the website, according to a post over at Read Write Web.
Cameron Shorter has a short post outlining the three principles that make up the draft of the revised Australian Government’s Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies – which are available here.
Google Maps Mania has a round up of some of the map-related April Fools day jokes that appeared online over the weekend.
As well as throwing in one of their own.
As well as throwing in one of their own.
GeoDataPolicy tells us that the Delhi State Assembly recently approved the Delhi Geo-spatial Data Infrastructure Management, Control, Administration, Security and Safety Bill 2011, the first of its kind in India. The bill allows the use of geospatial technology in planning and executing various development projects and utility services.
Following up from the article I pointed you to last week, concerning the amount of tracking data that German Telcos are storing on their customers, the Directions Magazine Blog alerts us that two US congressmen have expressed their concern over location data, and are making enquiries to the US’ four largest telco companies, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile, regarding their logging of customer locations.
A reader of the Google Earth Blog has noticed that Google recently updated their imagery in parts of Japan, Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Ireland, New Zealand, Paraguay, Spain and Tanzania. Probably the most interesting of the updates is that the New Zealand maps now show the locations of the sets of the upcoming Hobbit film.
