I second Sara's concern. Although I strongly support the evolution from OpenData into Hub (which I believe will have a good impact on community engagement), the broader open geospatial data community still needs good data curation and discovery tools. I can fully understand why the map-based interface as it currently stands isn't particularly useful. But I think that, paired with a stronger search by geography facet, visual exploration can become the primary mode of interaction. This would of course require stronger search by geographies, vague geographies, and stronger geoparsing of search queries.
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