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Intergovernmental Subcommittee Update: Geospatial Platform Jerry Johnston March 18, 2011

Intergovernmental Subcommittee Update: Geospatial Platform Jerry Johnston March 18, 2011. The Geospatial Platform. Definition

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Intergovernmental Subcommittee Update: Geospatial Platform Jerry Johnston March 18, 2011

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  1. Intergovernmental Subcommittee Update:Geospatial PlatformJerry JohnstonMarch 18, 2011

  2. The Geospatial Platform • Definition The Geospatial Platform will be a managed portfolio of common geospatial data, services, and applications contributed and administered by authoritative sources and hosted on a shared infrastructure, for use by government agencies and partners to meet their mission needs and the broader needs of the Nation • Vision All government agencies and their partners have access to geospatial capabilities to meet mission needs, ensure transparency and accountability, and geo-enable the business of government

  3. GeoPlatform • Enables developers, supporting government mission, to move to an enterprise standard development environment • Reduce a myriad of complex configuration and development environments • Enables reuse of government common functions, components and data by other government and public developers • Expose government data and functional assets to external communities • Enables infrastructure scaling of computing and storage capacities through public or private cloud services – • reduce program IT management challenges • Provide cost effective timely solutions for flexible computing demands • Data.gov becomes catalog for GeoPlatform

  4. Data.gov geo-enhancements • Data.gov with Geo enhancements • Enable search discovery of data.gov catalog items (datasets, map services, catalogs) using location: • Geographic coordinates, proximity, place names etc… • Allows for spatial visualization of existing map services and catalog metadata: • Evaluate data for appropriateness of use • Improves harvesting with geo intelligence • Make metadata more discoverable and useable

  5. GeoPlatform Status Update • SOW for Data.gov effort has been developed, funding is being moved to GSA for procurement • Pending discussions with states on RFI for Cloud Services -> RFP? • Roadmap Version 4 submitted to OMB

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