The current administration of the US Government has been increasingly looking at ways to both reduce costs as well as leverage more appropriate technology in order to provide services. The “Federal Cloud” is an initiative to adopt more cost-effective solutions that don’t require huge infrastructure [...]
Last week the tremendous team at the United Nations Environment Programme GRID-Arendal launched their OCEANIDS tool. Focused on sharing and open access to rich scientific data, the team is using GeoIQ to engage with citizens, governments, and researchers around the world to collaborate on important [...]
As I’ve been tracking the ongoing crisis in Syria I often felt I was only getting half the story not being able to read Arabic. This was especially frustrating when I’d check out all the rich data being generated by SyriaTracker. Citizens in Syria are reporting on the violence through social media [...]
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Tomorrow is the next Tech@State focusing on Realtime Awareness. In the afternoon I’m charing a panel on “Conveying Real-time Information”. You can still sign up for the conference tomorrow as [...]
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We’re fast into a new calendar year, predictions have been lain and we’re already beginning to see the emergence of some new and exciting technologies that will change future markets.
Last year was an incredibly exciting [...]
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If you’re not aware of OpenStreetMap – it’s a global community of volunteers that are gathering, measuring, and improving a map of the world. We have been long time members and supporters of the OpenStreetMap community and utilize the data and technology throughout GeoIQ and GeoCommons.
We’re devoted to improving open-source geospatial technology [...]
Continue Reading →Right before Christmas I headed out to San Jose for a conference on social media hosted by the Office of Naval Research. It was an interesting cross section of government research on social media and comercial social media companies that provided either social media apps (Facebook, Google+, Yahoo) or analytics (Topsy, Radian6, SAS). There [...]
Continue Reading →There is a good chance that you’ve been using Google Docs. Its a great way to share spreadsheets, documents, and information throughout your organization, or with friends and family. Ever wanted to plot you data on map, create thematics or animate it over time? This tutorial will focus on how to build Maps in GeoCommons [...]
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Maps are awesome. Adding charts to a map is even more awesome. In addition to mapping data at Geocommons, users can now visualize the same data by utilizing our newly introduced charts. The backbone of these charts was created using g.Raphael, which is based on Raphael‘s JavaScript graphics library. RaphaelJS offers the unique [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I had the opportunity to go to Camp Roberts and do experiments with the Naval Postgraduate’s School RELIEF exercise at Camp Roberts, CA. GeoIQ has partnered with the QuickNets program including Ushahidi to provide dynamic visualization and analytics for situational awareness during disaster response. The 42,000 acres [...]
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