{"id":10668,"date":"2014-01-02T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/philadelphia-puts-geospatial-data-on-github\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:46:24","slug":"philadelphia-puts-geospatial-data-on-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/statescoop\/philadelphia-puts-geospatial-data-on-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia puts geospatial data on GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia\u2019s Office of Innovation and Technology is now sharing the city\u2019s geospatial data through the social coding site GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>While the city has shared its open source software on GitHub for more than a year, it wasn\u2019t until recently when GitHub announced a suite of new features to support geospatial data hosting that encouraged the city to put that data on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs these new features got rolled out, it became obvious to us that GitHub presented a powerful new platform that we could use to share our data with an even wider audience of users,\u201d wrote Mark Headd, Philadelphia\u2019s chief data officer, on the city\u2019s PhillyInnovates blog.<\/p>\n<p>Headd said the goal is to make the city\u2019s data open in as many geospatial platforms as possible including CSV, JSON, GeJSON, KML and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phillyinnovates.com\/2013\/12\/23\/introducing-arcopen\/\">Read Headd\u2019s full post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia\u2019s Office of Innovation and Technology is now sharing the city\u2019s geospatial data through the social coding site 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