We had the opportunity to speak with Steve Coast, the Founder of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Cloud Made as well as The Fake Steve Coast. Prior to creating OSM and Cloud Made, the real Steve Coast interned at Wolfram Research then pursued a degree in computer science and physics at the [...]
Continue Reading →Came across a great data set on Finder! (thanks Laurie) yesterday that shows how bringing the worlds of GIS and the GeoWeb together can be insanely useful. This dataset shows the 500-year flood plain for Johnson County, Iowa. This includes Iowa City. Making highly detailed and technical data easy for people to consume could potentially [...]
Continue Reading →As the outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul from raw tomatoes spreads throughout the country, we thought it would be good to track the cases over time. You can find all of these updated datasets, ready to be mapped, at Finder!.
This map, made from the dataset Cases of [...]
Continue Reading →In my last blog entry I discussed how rising gas prices have turned people to use the public transportation system at a much higher rate. This blog will be a slight continuation of this theme as I discuss the impact that the increase in gas prices has accounted for an increase in the [...]
Continue Reading →One of the most anticipated and most hollow panels at GeoWeb conferences of late is “Something Something Business Model”. I think the reality was best captured by the Fake Steve Coast:
The default business model of Web 2.0 has been advertising. The problem is you are largely limited [...]
Continue Reading →Photos of an “invisible” tribe in Brazil are so ubiquitous that their images now fill a Google Image search for ‘uncontacted’ . The story of these “lost tribes” discovery is as interesting as the images themselves, including the discovery of their location with Google Earth.
On Finder! you can find highly detailed census [...]
Continue Reading →Data Transfer Solutions (DTS) developed an application for the Texas Forest service called the Texas Wildfire Data Browser. The application provides viewing for wildfire threats, fuel hazards and fire locations.
In light of the Iowa flooding, MSNBC posted an interactive map allowing users to track flooding locations in [...]
Continue Reading →On June 3rd Apache Corporation reported that a pipeline ruptured and caught fire at its Varanus Island gas processing and transportation hub. The plant is located off the coast of Western Australia, and is responsible for one third of the state’s gas supply. Thankfully no one was injured and the 153 people on [...]
Continue Reading →Andrew Turner had a great post a few days ago asking the question “is Google Maps GIS?” Lots of insightful discussion ensued with questions around what is the definition of GIS and has the term itself outlived its usefulness.
In response to Andrew’s post, many folks argued that GoogleMaps/Earth is a GIS. Folks on the [...]
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