EPA offers Mashup-able Data
C|NET reports on how a query by Google prompted EPA to offer up an XML file of 1,600 locales relegated to the Superfund National Priorities List specifically for those wishing to produce mashups. And there will be more to come. The EPA document on the project is available in PDF.
Also interesting from a terminology point of view is the description of the mashup-enabling players:
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to make it easier for Google, Microsoft and other enterprising online mappers to spread the word about potentially hazardous sites in your neighborhood.
Before offering the XML file, EPA offered Web services (ESRI and OGC) and mapping tools (Enviromapper for one, is ESRI-based) as methods to access its data stores.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/18 at 07:21 AM |
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