We are excited to announce the latest update to Finder! , the first application of the GeoCommons Suite (Maker! and cartographically powered maps is coming soon).
Finder! has officially graduated from ‘private beta’ and is now open to everyone for finding, organizing and sharing geodata. Along with the ability to upload (shared or private) and translate your data between different file formats, you can also set up your own library of data.
Now you can access data you’ve uploaded or copied from anywhere with Web browser access. Free your geodata from the hard drive and make it universally accessible for just yourself or the world. To get started, simply sign up to create a free account.
While we’ve made lots of great performance enhancements behind the scenes, some new additions to Finder! that you’ll notice include:
Ø Enhanced KML Export – When exporting a KML file into Google Earth, you’ll find cool stylized rendering of your datapoints.
Ø (Beta) KML Import Support – Along with spreadsheet (csv) and shapefile, you can now import KML (2.2 support except for KML with schema tag and KML network links – in progress…).
Ø Feedback Form – Now you can easily let us know if you love it or if we’ve missed something you would find useful.
Ø User Manual – We’ve created a great user manual that will answer many questions you might have about signing up, finding data, geographic file formats, uploading/downloading data and the best tagging and metadata practices that ensure your data is valuable to everyone.
You can also sign up to receive email updates about the GeoCommons Suite. We’ll keep you posted on all that’s happening with our development and upcoming releases.
Thanks!
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This is excellent. I wasn’t able to find any information about the API… Is that something that is in the plans for Finder!? We would love to make Fidnder’s! data available in UMapper editor.
Here is Finder’s! “WITS, Terrorist Attacks -Assassinations, Global, 2007″ map in UMapper viewer: http://www.umapper.com/content/swf/view.swf?kmlPath=http://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/download/269.kml
By the way, when I sign up for the email update I get this page: https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8
Hi Andrei,
Thanks for the heads up on the email bug. Cool uMapper implementation. I really like the push pin clustering for the points. I think that is the first time I’ve seen it in a web browser. Is there something that went wrong for getting the data into the baloons. Looked like it just had the marker number.
We do have a REST based API for Finder! built in but needs some work before it is available for public use. We’ll post up here once we have something good to go. Glad to hear there is interest in it. That will definitely help getting it prioritized.
best,
sean
Thanks, UMapper (www.umapper.com) is still in ALPHA but we are adding new features fast. We are going to take a look at the KML rendering to see why marker names didn’t show up.
Let me know if you need beta-integrator for the Finder! API, we would be glad to participate.