The beauty of Geocommons is the ease of use and ability to manipulate data quickly. Sometimes we have shapefiles of data that contain polygons, say for buildings. What if I want to view those buildings in Maker! by points rather than polygons. Easy! Simply upload your shapefile, fill out the metadata, and then download [...]
Continue Reading →Its now the third week of the disaster in Haiti and keeping up with the influx of updated information is a job and a half. Sometimes I have to search for hours and hours to find legitimate, useful information to map out projects in various parts of the world. But with resources like Open [...]
Continue Reading →One of the important aspects of sharing data is creating a format that is sharing friendly. A topic that frequently comes up at FortiusOne is bad spreadsheets.
If you are going to share a spreadsheet there are a couple ways to make it easier for those involved. Developers usually think of spreadsheets are more of [...]
Continue Reading →Last year, SlashGeo and Ogle Earth reported that Mathematica 7 imports geographic data. Now, you can import such data to Mathematica 7 directly from Finder!
So if you are searching for geographic data to use with Mathematica 7, try Finder.
Once you’ve found data (for example, an earthquake feed from USGS) [...]
Continue Reading →Sean Wohltman has an insightful post on the need to make the OpenStreetMap and Google MapMaker communities compatible for disasters. He makes some great points about the challenges of responders having to deal with two different data sets that are not conflated. The problem is apparent when you look at the differences [...]
Continue Reading →As part of our effort to contribute to the humanitarian efforts in Haiti after the past week’s disastorous earthquakes and to spread awareness of the current situation there, we at Fortius One, Inc have put together a news dashboard with the latest volunteered and official source data. We’re actively working with other communities such [...]
Continue Reading →In the past seven days Haiti has been hit with several earthquakes one of which had a magnitude of 7. We’ve been busy tracking all of these quakes and updating our public site with as much quake data as possible as well as some demographic data. We will be continuing to update our site at [...]
Continue Reading →At FortiusOne we’ve been collecting Afghanistan geographic data for a couple of years, so it was with great interest we read Maj. Gen. Flynn’s report on the state on intelligence in Afghanistan. Flynn’s assessment was blunt and direct – the current approach to military intelligence in Afghanistan is failing.
Specifically, the Flynn report [...]
Continue Reading →OpenSearch specifies rules for sending and receiving data from websites. GeoCommons supports OpenSearch for querying of both maps and overlays. For non-programmers the most common use of OpenSearch is adding search providers to your browser. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox all support OpenSearch.
Here is the dropdown of my search providers in Firefox. In [...]
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