http://www.netsquared.org/tags/geodata share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/open-municipal-geodata-standard-organization-website <p>I&#39;d like to announce a new website that I&#39;m starting up called The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website, or OMG Standard for short, at <a href="http://www.omgstandard.com/">www.omgstandard.com</a>. The idea behind it is to have an open forum to discuss and collaborate on how to involve governments to effectively release their public data to communities. </p> <p>The goals at the moment are to:<br /> 1 create an open standard for the structuring of municipal data<br /> 2 convince governments it&#39;s in their best interest to make the data easily available<br /> 3 provide tools to let this happen efficiently</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/open-municipal-geodata-standard-organization-website">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/open-municipal-geodata-standard-organization-website#comments geodata municpal n2y3 omg open standard website your mapper Tue, 13 May 2008 21:10:06 -0400 metromapper 10333 at http://www.netsquared.org