One of the topics I frequently write and teach about is how to find, evaluate, and use geospatial data. Given the advance of the open data movement, the plethora of geospatial data libraries, portals, and Hub sites, and the increasing ease of bringing that data into ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other tools, is such a course still needed? I submit that it is needed more than ever, for the reasons I describe in this article. This article also contains the content for this much-needed course.
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