Sean informed us about a new featuer currently being rolled out in Beta - Finder! Finder! extends teh functionality of Geocommons, the way cool crowdsoursing service used to serve and explore large structured Geo data sets. Using Finder! you can search common topics (I tried Sports facilities). Once found, you can then download as KML, SHP, or CSV file. Making it even more useful for the casual user, Finder! results can be easily viewed using Google Earth, Virtual Earth, or Google Maps - think Integration of your GIS data with the GeoWeb.

Also useful, Metadata is provided, along with data creator info, upload date and other attributes. find something you like and save your searches to your Finder! account for later use.

So there we have it. The 5 coolest things about Finder!

• Search the GeoWeb
• Retrieve data as SHP, KML or CSV
• Save to you account
• View Metadata
• Share your data

Way to go Sean - see below for the gmap results of my search. See http://finder.geocommons.com/