Ogle Earth shares a plethora of links with everything from a 3-D globe viewer from Microsoft Virtual Earth’s API to heatmaps of georeferenced Panoramio photos to a job search using ReliefWeb’s map of humanitarian vacancies. It really shows that you can use a map for anything.
Reverse geocoding for Google Maps is [...]
Continue Reading →Campaigns, like maps, are often about appearance (i.e. fashion). The most explicit discussion of campaign fashion comes in the form of shocking price tags on haircuts, like Senator Edwards’. While a haircut is trivial, the importance of fashion really hits home when one reads that Barack Obama wore “a suit [...]
Continue Reading →So who’s producing the most beef in the world? Who’s consuming the most beef in the world? After uploading world production and consumption data into Finder from the FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations) website, I was able to reveal where most of the world’s beef is being produced and [...]
Continue Reading →There has been an interesting discussion going over on James Fee’s blog on the merits of ESRI’s new javascript API and Flex API. James has thrown his lot in with the JavaScript API, and a host of Flex/Flash developers have been exposing their technology’s merits. While we don’t use either of ESRI’s APIs internally [...]
Continue Reading →The upcoming election is becoming more interesting and dynamic every day. While the candidates contest, secure, or historically change battleground states, we have been updating datasets of the latest state by state polls to Finder!. Taking a look at these polls as they change over time, we [...]
Continue Reading →Financial space is hard to pin to a map. Still, there is a lot of spatial data about the economy in geocommons:
State Growth Indicators
BEA,Real GDP by State, USA, 2004-07
BEA, State Personal Income, USA, 2nd Qrt. 2008
Mortgage Data
Federal Reserve Bank of NY, State Level Alt-A Mortgage Characteristics, [...]
James Fee writes that The ESRI JavaScript API is better than WebADF. “The simplicity of the JavaScript API and the way it works, makes the classic WebADF and HTML viewers obsolete for most users…”
Jeff Thurston at VectorOne discusses map intelligence and data workflows. While most workflows using a GIS [...]
Continue Reading →IKEA furniture stores seem to slowly but surely be making more of a global appearance as the demand for affordable furniture becomes greater. The success of IKEA is largely in part due to their business concept by selling well designed home furnishings at prices so low that as many people a possible can [...]
Continue Reading →My mom called me the other day and asked me if I knew how much the U.S. spends on the military. I said that I didn’t but I that could find out. “In fact”, I told her, “I can make a map of global spending on the military by country” (because Finder! and [...]
Continue Reading →Adena at Directions Magazine shared the Mozilla announcement that Geode is coming. Geode is a geolocation add-on for Firefox which will enable localized content. ReadWriteWeb describes it as a tool that “understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content" and VentureBeat explains it’s a location determination tool, built on the W3C spec, [...]
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