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What's the best way to host map tiles?
I'm interested in generating some open-source maps, with possibly world-wide coverage. I know that depending on the number of zoom levels I include, the number of tiles can be very large, taking up a ...
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Spend transaction data formats
What is the best format that we cam reasonably get government bodies to publish their spend transaction data in?
In an ideal world we would ask for Linked Data, where every supplier was correctly ...
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Tales of woe from fixed-format (non-delimited) ASCII data distribution
It seems that many/most government surveys in the health sector are distributed in a fixed-format ASCII, often with SAS code provided to create variables out of the mess (e.g. NHAMCS values and ...
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What are the standards for data in terms of Open APIs?
Update: It appears there have been two directions in terms of answering this question. Data interchange (ex. HTTP, FTP, P2P), and data formatting (ex. JSON, XML, CSV). My original question was about ...
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Alternative to GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification)?
I recently heard of GTFS as a specification for the times and geographic information regarding transit networks. It is initially used by Google to integrate them into Google Maps but is now made to be ...
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What are the most useful formats in which to release geospatial data?
In the past, I have released data as zipped Shapefiles (for the professional GIS crowd) and KML/KMZ (viewable by anyone using Google Earth). Are there other formats that would be especially helpful?
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Standards for self-documenting text files?
One of the advantages of most scientific file formats is that you have a block of attached metadata that tells a reader how to read / interpret the file (what the fields are, for the most part -- how ...
