From the monthly archives: July 2007

Google "Care Packages" and the Potential of User Generated Data

On July 27, 2007 By Sean Gorman

I was catching up on my blog reading and came across a fascinating post on Fred Taylor’s Google Earth Blog from a few days ago (with some more Detail on Dan Karran’s blog). In short the post talked about a project where Google has been sending “care packages” to cities they do [...]

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Forget celebrities with drug problem – this may be more serious…

On July 26, 2007 By admin

Imagine a situation where as many as 25 million people in the US could go to jail for possession of illegal substance.
On average 10% of U.S. population of age 12 and above smokes pot. If these many people were affected by an infectious disease such a West Nile or Avian [...]

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Confining Lohan to Twin Falls, ID

On July 25, 2007 By admin

Earlier this week, party girl Lindsey Lohan found herself in trouble with the law yet again when she was arrested after chasing the mother of her personal assistant in her car. What kind of celebrity engages in high speed pursuits days before the opening of a new film? Apparently one who’s hopped up on [...]

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The Origins of Al Qaeda

On July 20, 2007 By admin

Back and Stronger Than Ever

A recently released U.S. intelligence report paints an alarming picture about the resurgence and renewed threat posed by Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network. According to this document, Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been able to re-energize over the last several months, in part due to the hands off [...]

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Hottest neighborhoods for rentals in San Francisco — a very cool new mashup!

On July 19, 2007 By admin

Thanks to Ethan Garner for this heads up about a really interesting mashup he’s just published– CraigStatsSF. Ethan collected a year’s worth of data from craigslist on apartments for rent in San Francisco, uploaded it to GeoCommons, and used our platform to build heatmapping functionality into his site. You can see the [...]

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Heat maps of individual donor contributions to Clinton, Obama, Giuliani and Romney: 2nd quarter, 2007

On July 19, 2007 By admin

The maps below show individual donor contributions by zipcode areas to leading presidential candidates. The data for the maps are derived from the quarterly finance reports filed on July 15, 2007 with Federdal Election Commission (FEC).

Pan and zoom in to investigate the patterns of contributions at subregional levels in each [...]

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The Geography of Facebook

On July 18, 2007 By Sean Gorman

There have been several interesting blog posts of late on the demographics of Facebook and comparison to the demographics of sites like MySpace and LinkedIn. A few folks have looked at the international growth of Facebook, but I have not to date seen any discussion of the geography of Facebook. We all [...]

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The Open Source GeoWeb – Post OSM Rehash and the Near Space Future of Ballons

On July 17, 2007 By Sean Gorman

OSM “State of the Map” – Manchester UK

Just got back from a great, if jet lagged, two days at the State of the Map in Manchester. Those not familiar OpenStreetMaps (OSM) is a project to collect collaborative street data around the globe that is open for anyone to use. In the [...]

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Boundaries of Booty Calls a.k.a. mapping "DC Madam Scandal"

On July 13, 2007 By admin

Geography of the escort service scandal

Among many breaking news stories this week there was one that made a splash just before the Internet release of the phone records. Since then it has been reported that several interest groups including those with particular point of view have been poring [...]

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The GeoWeb Ecosystem and the Future of Attributed Data

On July 13, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Chris’s latest round of posts on the KML 2.2 specification got me thinking about the over all GeoWeb ecosystem, how it is structured and how it will evolve in the future. The term GeoWeb was coined by Mike Liebhold of the IFTF to encompass ““The integration of Web-accessible digital cartographic information with [...]

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