When the Esri DC Dev Center team first found out about the reported explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, we immediately tuned into Twitter to capture live discussions so that we could understand the series of events. With over 440,000 tweets captured in under 24 hours, one can imagine the difficulty in [...]
With over 6.4 million tweets shared amongst friends during the Academy Awards, peaking at over 85,000 tweets per second during Michelle Obama’s presentation of the Best Picture award, there have been quite a number of creative analyses and visualizations that have been constructed to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory power [...]
Continue Reading →This weekend, volunteer hackers and technologists convened at CrisisCamps in over 10 cities and virtually online to assist in developing tools to assist the ongoing response and recovery for people affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Collaborating in realtime over Skype, IRC, Wiki, Hackpad, and [...]
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Earlier this August we (Brendan Heberton and myself) had the chance to visit Camp Roberts to participate in John Crowley & Co’s humanitarian relief experiments. On this trip we wanted to begin empirical testing of how useful social media stream like Twitter are during disasters, and what the potential was for streaming analysis. [...]
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cross posted at Esri ArcGIS blog
A little more than a month ago our team from GeoIQ joined with Esri to create the Washington DC Development Center. We’ve been busy over that month defining our strategy and plans for working together with Esri. Our core mission is extending Esri technology to make [...]
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When we launched GeoCommons in 2007 we wanted to bring geographic data and analysis to everyone. Today more than 50,000 users have contributed over 125,000 open data sets, which have been shared 20 million times. The community has been awesome, and for a while we’ve been discussing how we can [...]
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One of the most rewarding parts of our work is seeing how the tools we build are used in new and unexpected ways. While we frequently work with customers and users to solve particular problems, we always look at the broader potential for these features to be used by a different type of user.
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This week I am leading tech training at the TechCamp events in Tel Aviv and Ramallah discussing open mapping platforms for sharing and visualizing data. TechCamp is part of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Civil Society [...]
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Last year we worked closely with the US World Wildlife Fund to develop the capability to upload and share climate modeling data through GeoIQ. Today you can explore the changing world at Climascope. Partnerships with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Continue Reading →
New GeoCommons Maps- Pets in Montreal doggyday
- Pennsylvania Counties steve@bikemap.com
- Texas/Arizona Birding Road Trip 2013 afournier
- Info hamiam21
- Tennessee golf courses dgang@tennessean.com
- San Carlos sbutt92
- New GeoCommons Datasets
- kerentanan
- Kawasan Resiko Bencana Banjir Kabupaten Ponorogo
- Filtered Features of 'Merge of 'Montreal census tracts' into 'Languages spoken at home -montreal'' based on 'MontrealImpactFC2013'
- Intersect_risiko2 REQUIRED: The person responsible for the metadata information.
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- Tennessee Public Courses