Last week our 2.0.9 release went live enabling a couple of new features and cleaning up a few stragglers from the last release.  You can always read the details at our wiki page, but I’ll highlight a couple here that are worth noting.

• Human Readable URLs: Prior to this release, a dataset had a token in the URL such as “4a7df1a5-af77-ab5a-a0b9-59a97b6d03d4″.   This token was a unique identifier to the dataset, but you couldn’t tell what the token was unless you clicked on it.  Now URLs are based on the name of the dataset.  Thus if I have a dataset called “City Roads”, the URL will now use that in the URL.

  http://mylibrary.weogeo.com/#/original_data_map/mylibrary_city_roads

  You can still use the tokens as before, but the URLs will default to the name of the dataset.
• CSV (comma separated values): You can now convert vector datasets into CSV files.  This means that users that don’t have access to GIS software can get at the data values behind the shapefiles.
• GeoRSS Feeds Improved: Our last release introduced GeoRSS files.  Now at 2.0.9 the RSS feed gives you updated datasets in your area of interest defined by the bounding box you set either in the the WeoGeo website or by customizing the URL yourself.
• Performance improvements: Added caching to improve the performance of the web app.
• Improved user activity stats for administrators:  Library administrators can get better analytics to determine how datasets are being downloaded and used.

If you are interested in taking the WeoGeo Library or Market for a test spin, please contact us and let us know you’d like to try it out.  Also please let us know if there are any enhancements or features you’d like to see enabled into our Library/Market or APIs.

The GeoMonkey is already working with the WeoGeo APIs to convert MapInfo TAB to CSV.