Every year in Pamplona Spain thousands of people risk their lives for the thrill of being chased by a 1,000 lbs bull. This is known as the encierro, the famous tradition of the nine-day festival of San Fermín starting the 6th of July.
In honor of the festival that kicked off [...]
Continue Reading →Web 2.0 has created a grand collection of buzzwords and two of the most prominent have been “collective intelligence” and the “wisdom of crowds“. Both terms are closely related and have been some of the driving forces behind the success of popular applications like Digg, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and Freebase to name a few. While there [...]
Continue Reading →With the rise of post-partisan Obama on the national political scene, there have been sporadic stories in the print and on-line media , in Op-Eds, on the cable-news/YouTube and in the blogs; of how some influential Republicans have turned into Obama supporters, the so called Obamacans, reverse [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →The weak US Dollar might have a slight positive effect on the United States’ economy by luring international tourists to the States in record numbers. It’s like the whole country is on sale, and for our closest neighbors it’s just a quick drive over the border. The Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI), [...]
Continue Reading →This past week, Google Maps and Tele Atlas agreed to a five-year partnership. The Dutch-based mapping company will provide Google with more maps and geographic data, allowing Google to disseminate the information to over 200 countries. The agreement broadens Google Maps and Google Earth, but also allows for a mobile platform [...]
Continue Reading →We got a pleasant surprise this morning with a nice piece in BusinessWeek that included us Mapufacture and OpenStreetMaps. The journalist, Rachael King, came across our blog post on the Iowa floods as well as the resulting contributed data and thought it could make a cool story. Great to see some [...]
Continue Reading →Find data on public fireworks shows in the New York, Washington, and Los Angeles Metropolitan Areas on Finder!
Continue Reading →After a few too many beers after work this winter a few of us decided it would be fun to enter a mountain bike race. Not being very clever about the impacts of altitude on oxygen intake we thought a race in Colorado would be particularly awesome. The early team had about six brave souls [...]
Continue Reading →As the unprecendented Midwest floods continue to play havoc with people’s lives and property, one of the hardest hit is the farm sector. With millions of acres of farmland under flood waters, farmers are facing billions of $ worth of crops losses.
However, all is not lost for these farmers. Uncle Sam does offer [...]
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