Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Esri Backs Open Government Data Efforts

Redlands-based Esri, which develops geographical information systems (GIS) software used to map and visualize data, said today that it supports the enactment of the federal Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. The new law promotes opening up data usage by the public of government data "by dafulat", making that data machine readable and freely usable. According to Esri, its ArcGIS hub software helps government agencies meet those new open data law requirements. Esri says it already has 4,000 organizations which have enabled access to open data through its ArcGIS Hub, including 84 US federal agencies and 9 tribal governments.