Many thanks for checking out GeoCommons. I took a look at the data and the map and it appears the columns with % resigned came in as a text field. Try changing the field to numeric and get rid of the text characters including “%”. so if it say “50%” change it to just “50″. Then just change the attribute name to percent resigned. Hope that helps.

On Bin Laden’s location the estimates came from the UCLA team, so I can’t speak for them. They do lay out the theory as to why he would be in populated places and no remote places in their paper here:

http://web.mit.edu/mitir/2009/online/finding-bin-laden.pdf

best,
sean

the map is very interesting, the potentiality of geocommons, well they are great.
I just meet geocommons and they really are such a powerful tool to show some bad-politicians behaviors. Here in Italy we have such a collection of data that it would be a sin to don’t use it..
eheh..we fight them in something they don’t even can imagine…
cartography!

First, about Osama, i am not much in line with this score. I mean, looking the morphology of that place..he would be in such open space, in a versant like that.
Mountains are a better way to get hide.
That was a good idea to overlay the density %. Actually, i’ve always imaged Osama somewhere with no many people all around.
Anyway, i also think he moves frequently. it’s good we try to come nearer, that’s sure..

Now, i got a problem with my first geocommon map. It shows the % of EU Parliamentarians resigned, the data are just update by the EU Parliament.
Here it is http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/3017
Italy rocks!!!!! Bad times my friend, we are living bad times..
So, i’d like to have the size of the points that increase as increase the value. The style of my layers doesn’t give me possibility, they are different from ones i saw in some web pages.
Where am i wrong?

Thanks in advance for any reply.
OpenCiao!

marco