Embedding GeoCommons in WordPress and Why Project Red is Important

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One of the goals with GeoCommons is to enable people to raise awareness about information – whether it is a cause, the news or just a promotion. Along those lines we’ve designed it so any of the data you find or load into GeoCommons can be syndicated, allowing anyone to raise awareness about the data in a context they think makes sense. One of the first syndication methods is some simple embedding code to drop any map in GeoCommons onto your blog or web page. We are working through the particulars of making it work with as many platforms as possible and we started with our blog WordPress. We had to do a few little tricks to get it to work and we’ll pass those along after we go live and hopefully have it all automated shortly. If nothing else hooray for no more screen shots on the blog

So, what is the first map we embedded? AIDS deaths by country for 2005. With all the attention being produced by Project Red and other initiatives to combat AIDS in Africa we thought this map was an illuminating illustration of why the cause is important. The data comes from “The Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2006” – One look at why helping fight AIDS is an important issue.