About the Geospatial Platform
"Federal agencies and their partners collect and manage large amounts of geospatial data - but these data are often not easily found when needed or accessible in useful forms. The Geospatial Platform provides ready access to federally maintained geospatial data, services and applications. The content of all datasets and services demarcated with the Data.gov globe (below) have been verified by the Agency to be consistent with Federal privacy, national security, and information quality policies. As an additional service to our users, we also provide access to data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments as well as non-governmental organizations."
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This platform is launched on Esri ArcGIS server technology. However, Esri has recently added support for OGC capabilities so I believe WMS will be supported. This system has been in development for a long time and is in coordination with Data.gov which was loaded with data from the Geopsatial OneStop. This plat form should effectively retire the GOS portal.
Data.gov continues to develop and supports open government and open data standards. This platform is more encompassing and supports multiple information systems and is eager to launch the Data.gov Next Generation platform. This platform "makes public data universally accessible in a new engaging online experience. Data.gov users can now interactively discover, explore, share and contribute to data. Whether it's finding relevant data, visualizing it with charts and maps, or sharing it on social networks, Data.gov Next Generation makes it easy."
Overall both platforms are intended to uplift federal and partner data to provide higher accessibility and discoverability to the public.
This is an cloud and enterprise solution for IT and further supports GIS as a component technology.
Press release: http://www.fgdc.gov/fgdc-news/fgdc-launches-new-geospatial-platform-website
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