Mookie came across a cool blog run by the Foreign Policy journal that features a new map every Tuesday. The maps cover not only mash-ups but also print cartography and all have a foreign policy angle of some sort. Since F1 spun out of GMU’s School of Public Policy it is very encouraging [...]
Continue Reading →While getting ready to launch Finder! we had an internal debate whether or not to put limits on dataset downloading. There were several options, ranging from requiring a user to be logged in before they downloaded to limiting the number of downloads a user could make in a day. A lot of the argument centered [...]
Continue Reading →Not only can you drive with Google Maps directions, you can now take a walk with them. Google added walking directions to its Google Maps product today. The walking directions ignore one-way streets and Google Maps tries to give pedestrians the most direct and flat route possible.
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Continue Reading →When we took Finder! out of private beta July 2nd, Matt Constantine also added a tool for doing statistical analysis of data downloads. We’ve been running it for 21 days and thought we’d share a little bit of what we’ve learned with the community.
1) Users love to download and have done so 18,143 [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes it seems like there is a Starbucks on every corner, and sometimes it’s true! It looks as if they have finally reached their saturation point and are now closing 616 stores throughout the United States. This Finder! dataset shows the locations of the closures. We also uploaded a [...]
Continue Reading →Going green is taking businesses and consumers by storm. Yet, what is the role of GIS and GPS in renewable energy development? When GIS and GPS partner, they are ‘uniquely positioned to analyze and monitor earth system processes to make certain that renewable power generation sites are optimally sited and that the power that [...]
Continue Reading →Travel has put me a bit behind on getting up a post on the second day of “State of the Map”. However, having a few days to reflect on the conference it was really very impressive. Probably the single biggest differentiator between this and most every other conference I’ve been to is that every speaker [...]
Continue Reading →With the MLB All-Star Game winding up I decided to write about the annual midsummer classic and other All-Star games from other sports organizations. All-Star games are a chance for the world to see the best compete against the best. Since All-Star games represent the best of the [...]
Continue Reading →After a bit of airline nightmare (do any US flights arrive on time anymore?) I made it to Limerick Ireland for OpenStreetMap’s (OSM) conference “State of the Map“. The talks have really highlighted how popular OSM has become. Roughly I break them into two buckets 1) the state of mapping a country 2) doing [...]
Continue Reading →ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API is now available. The two extensions that were also released at the same time were ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Google Maps API and the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Virtual Earth. For more information on this free API, visit the ArcGIS 9.3 [...]
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- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
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