Federal Geographic Data Committee Launches New Geospatial Website

Soil survey map created at the US Fedaral Government's new Geospatial Platform website

Soil survey map created at the US Fedaral Government's new Geospatial Platform website

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps.

This type of interface seems to be the future of GIS and mapping. Many agencies have something similar for their own data, but how great will it be when you can combine data sets from various sources to create your own maps?

[Source: US Department of the Interior via USGS. Image: GeoPlatform.gov]