GeoCommons

Description

Geocommons is a website for uploading and visualizing datasets with a geospatial component (so they can be plotted on a map). Focus is on visualization rather than the data with tagline: "Explore, Create and Share Intelligent Maps and Geographic Data"

Openness: PASS-

• License: all datasets licensed under cc by-sa 3.0
• Access: data provided in kml or kmz format but difficult to get hold of. Unfortunately a little complex to get data for a given dataset and hard (impossible) to access all datasets at once via web (perhaps can be done via their web api -- requires sign-up and an API key). For example long list of items on http://www.geocommons.com/data_set/ doesn't seem to provide link (and the js fancyness doesn't seem to work that well). Also not clear that they make available any of their 'own' datasets
  • format: kml,kmz