Data Basin Redesign - Part 1

This is the first post in what will hopefully be a series where we describe the new and cool stuff that we are doing to Data Basin.

First - some background:
Data Basin is now being built, in partnership with ESRI, partly on top of new capabilities just released in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server. These technologies open several doors in terms of getting spatial data into the system, out of the system, viewable in a highly configurable web viewer, and available to a much wider audience (datasets published in Data Basin are dual-published on ArcGIS online for all ESRI users).

Now for the cool stuff:
The user interface has been redesigned from top-to-bottom by Mambo Media and CBI to make it easier to jump in and find the great datasets, maps, people, and more that are in the system - as well as compartmentalizing information so that it is easy to find what you want when you want it (and not have it in your way when you don't).

We're particularly excited about the revised navigation scheme that makes it easy to get around the site. Is it datasets you want? Just click on the datasets tab, and now you can explore datasets by category, see great datasets that are being featured, see some recent datasets - and see a tag cloud that shows at-a-glance the popularity of tags assigned by users to their datasets. Maps are just a click away.