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VisualPlace: Australian Map Visualization

The government of Victoria, Australia recently created a pilot project to allow visualization and mapping of data from the state government.  This application requires Silverlight.

From the VisualPlace blog:

"The purpose of VisualPlace is to show the value of an interactive GIS-enabled service for the visualisation of location based government information."


URL: 
http://www.vic.gov.au/visualplace/blog/

Nonprofit mapping thoughts about Census 2010

Submitted by jim on Fri, 2010-03-19 12:00

map generated using census bureau data and toolsEvery ten years, the United States embarks on a census to count every person in the country.  The 2010 census date of counting is only a couple of weeks away (April 1st, 2010) so there has been a lot of census talk in the media recently.

MapBuilder

"MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser."

Much like OpenLayers.

URL: 
http://communitymapbuilder.org/

ESRI's Free Explorer Application

ESRI has two free and quasi-light weight programs for the download. One is an server application for the exploration and viewing of 2D and 3D programs, the other is a viewer application.

URL: 
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/explorer.html