The Lisbon Reporter

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Publish: Map your town with good EPA data‏

This is a wonderful decision. Once people can see the data for themselves it will not only reduce paranoia, but stimulate activities in other areas. Maine is going to look very good on these maps.

Dwight

EPA open sources its geographic data

Government Computer News (Feb 13) - "EPA to open its ArcGIS data to the public":
http://gcn.com/articles/2014/02/13/epa-arcgis-data.aspx

International mapping software supplier Esri has announced a new policy regarding open data, allowing its government customers around the United States to release data stored on its ArcGIS platform to the public. With the company’s cloud server open to the public, federal, state and local agencies have the option of allowing the public to view the geospatial data they use to make decisions.

The Environmental Protection Agency will be the first Esri user to take advantage of the new feature.

It looks like the EPA GIS data may be indexed here:
https://www.geoplatform.gov/node/201/%26fq%3Dmetadata_type%3A%22geospatial%22%2BAND%2B%26organization.limit%3D0%26keyword%3DEPA%26sort%3D%26ext_bbox%3D%26ext_location%3D