For a while we’ve been posting maps and data about breaking news stories on the blog. Often times the amount of data needed to convey the geographic perspective of a news story is more than one map or blog post can sustain. A second issue is that some news stories are persistent for [...]
Continue Reading →Everyone has their favorite burger place they like to go to. I thinks it’s safe to say that everyone knows a great place where you can sit down and have one of those juicy burgers that are prepared for you with all the fixins. You might even like to spend an entire afternoon with friends [...]
Continue Reading →At Where 2.0 last year we gave a talk on data federation and at the time we were working with Andrew Turner on implementing the concept with GeoCommons and Mapufacture. We got a little carried and ended up just merging Mapufacture and GeoCommons, but we continued to develop the federation ideas.
Recently, the [...]
Continue Reading →In less than a year, there have been two country wide salmonella outbreaks in the US. The first outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul occurred last summer of 2008, and infected as many as 1,442 persons over five months. The origin has still not been confirmed however tomatoes and peppers have been linked to the illnesses. [...]
Continue Reading →The Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access(PASDA) is a data clearinghouse that was started by the Pennsylvania State University. The publicly available geospatial information is easily accessible through Finder and then by creating a new map in Maker you can view the data as layers on a map. Two datasets that interested me as [...]
Continue Reading →A group of UCLA geographers published a paper yesterday in the MIT International Review entitled “Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery”. The UCLA team used purely open source data, including “Landsat ETM+, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Defense Meteorological Satellite, QuickBird”. Then used a variety of commons geographic analysis [...]
Continue Reading →One of the professors at GMU that works with us, Laurie Schintler, has been working on an oil shock model to see what impact different global events could have on purchasing power. It is all still preliminary but the analysis was very intriguing so we thought it would be fun to put it [...]
Continue Reading →Spring is around the corner and what does this mean to me? Yes it is lacrosse season and one of my favorite things to do is catch an early season college matchup. But, where can I go to watch a game? I decided to use the help of Finder!, Maker!, and also Continue Reading →
Is seems the thing to do around the internet these days is create a map of Madoff Clients. Isn’t it nice that Bernie has provided us with such a great use for geography! Of course we had to do a map ourselves since everyone else is! Our dataset has the clients aggregated to [...]
Continue Reading →Australia’s southern state of Victoria has struggled to contain the brush fires that are tearing through the state. Police officials have confirmed the death of 181 people thus far, and expect that number to exceed 200.
Police suspect arsonists played a role in starting the blazes that have quickly gotten out of control. The fires [...]
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