Impressive use of geospatial data

There are some very clever people in the US, and a group of them have built some very interesting geospatial systems for displaying government data.

For example David Fletcher's blog has made me aware that the US Census has developed the OnTheMap service for analysing employment data. It offers a number of tools for creating map overlays to help filter and present data in value-add ways.

It's well worth a look and a think about what could be done in Australia with the latest census results.

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Effective use of government mapping data

This is a great presentation on exploiting location-based information, following on from my post on mashups.

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