The winter season is upon us and the cold weather is giving people the itch to run off to the ski slopes. Unfortunately, in Washington DC this requires a flight to the west coast or a drive out to east coast mountains to partake in the winter recreation. Going out to the west is [...]
Continue Reading →Flickr recently published the areal shapes of place names based on geotagged photos. Tom Taylor quickly developed a visualization for any particular place name.
The shapes are irresistible. We added a few locations into Geocommons. The data includes counts of the number of photos taken for any particular place name. [...]
The U.S. Department of Education has a link on their website to The Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool, which allows visitors to download spreadsheets that show financial information about equity in college athletics. The universities that the data accounts for are US college universities that receive Title IV funding. What that basically means [...]
Continue Reading →Whenever we present GeoCommons there are always questions about the accuracy and validity of crowdsourced data. The standard answer has been the data is as good as the source, and we provide multiple levels of citation to clearly identify the source. Sometimes the source is an individual who created their own data and there [...]
Continue Reading →Global economic crisis! Record level unemployment in the U.S.!
With our latest dataset on unemployment levels for select countries from 1995 to 2008 from the U.S. Department of Labor, I decided to take a look at what has been happening to unemployment in this economic environment.
The next three maps [...]
Continue Reading →It’s the holidays and what is one thing that is on the minds of everyone? Shopping! Yes, and this year with the economy slumping people are trying to not only find the perfect gift but the perfectly-priced gift. As I myself have pondered this question a thought entered my head. What [...]
Continue Reading →Steve Chilton of Middlesex University recently created a cool map in GeoCommons comparing street coverage for OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Google/TeleAtlas in several cities across the globe. It provided a fascinating perspective and thought it would be cool to share it with the community.
The project began with work by Bernard Zwischenbrugger to visually [...]
Continue Reading →India wants to ban Google Earth and Wikimapia. The aftermath of the Mumbai attacks created a petition to remove all imagery of India on Google Earth and similar sites like Wikimapia. Mumbai-based lawyer Amit Karkhanis filed the petition saying, “The petition is filed against the backdrop of terror attacks in Mumbai. [...]
Continue Reading →With the college football season winding down and the National Championship coming up on January 8, 2009 between the Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners, it would be interesting to know what college programs across the country are paying their head coaches. The following map shows a data collection, by all co-educational post-secondary [...]
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