Open Data – Questions and Answers

February 11, 2016

Open Data: Questions and Answers by George A Duckett

If you have a question about OpenData then Open Data – Questions and Answers will have all the answers you are looking for. It takes some of the most popular questions from the opendata.stackexchange.com website and answers them in detail.

You can use this book to look up commonly asked questions, browse questions on a particular topic, compare answers to common topics, check out the original source and much more. It has been designed to be very easy to use, with several internal references set up that makes browsing in many different ways possible. It covers a wide range of open data sources including North American & International geospatial data sets.

The digital Kindle version contains links to resources and web sites referenced in the answers.

Topics covered include:

Data Requests
Geospatial Data
Releasing Data
Government Data
API Requests
Tool Requests
Licensing
Best Practices and much more

Order your copy of this geo-book here …

By canadiangisFiled in: Geo BooksTags: API, George A Duckett, Geospatial data, Open Data, questions, stackexchange.com

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