Working Groups/Government/mapping

= Open Government Data mapping project =

This wiki page is the starting point of and Open Government Data mapping project of the OGD working group. People from all over the world already started working on mapping OGD initiatives, catalogues, competitions, events. The OGD community needs this information for different purposes (information, coordination, documentation, community building, etc). The idea is to create a single source for all information around the OGD movement worldwide and keep it up to date.

Mapping OGD
The idea is to collaboratively collect and update a comprehensive list of:


 * OGD initiatives
 * OGD Events
 * OGD competitions
 * OGD catalogues

Access
Most of this information could be displayed in different forms:


 * single item (url)
 * list of items
 * on a map (geo)
 * in a calendar (time)

Formats
It would also be good to have it in different formats, as:


 * xhtml
 * xml
 * kml
 * ical
 * and - of course - for our semantic friend in rdf

Context and Anecdotes
And also start thinking about how to collect other useful information around OGD like


 * OGD use cases & success stories
 * OGD testimonials
 * OGD most popular data
 * OGD low hanging fruits (where to start? what data is easy to open?)
 * OGD best practice

Lets use www.opengovernmentdata.org as the home for this mapping project.