From the monthly archives: February 2010

Chile Earthquake and Response

On February 27, 2010 By Andrew Turner

While we continue to support the reconstruction efforts in Haiti, this morning brought news of the 8.8 scale Earthquake off the coast of Chile.

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Better Know a GeoCommons Feature – URL Feeds

On February 26, 2010 By bill greer

You my have noticed some changes to the front page of GeoCommons. If you are a regular user, the most obvious change will have been the uploading functionality and workflow which includes the addition of GeoJoin. You can still Geocode your own data by using our open-source geocoder to display your spreadsheet [...]

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Dataset of the Day: Maker! Plays Cupid

On February 12, 2010 By emily sciarillo

Valentine’s day is this Saturday so I thought I’d made a few maps in honor of this lovers holiday. Since one thing lovers do is travel, I made a map of the 50 most romantic places in the world…at least according to Travel + Leisure in 2005. Each icon on the [...]

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Better Know a GeoCommons Feature – GeoJoin

On February 9, 2010 By admin

Often I have had various GeoCommons users ask me, “How do I turn my excel spreadsheet data into proportional shapes like the map below?”

Before now I would have told these users that they would have to use complicated and expensive mapping software. This would allow [...]

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Data Dissemination to the Government of Haiti

On February 5, 2010 By Andrew Turner


OpenStreetMap in the
World Bank Haiti Situation Room

For the past 3 weeks, since January 12, we’ve been actively involved in many efforts to provide support and analysis of the Haiti earthquake recovery. From immediate Continue Reading →

Are We Creating an App Junkyard? How to Incubate and Sustain Innovation

On February 5, 2010 By Sean Gorman

In the process of helping out with CrisisCommons and various Haiti relief efforts I’ve noticed recurring challenges around getting resources to sustain all the great ideas and apps being created. As I looked around at all the app contests and volunteer efforts it struck me we are creating an app junkyard. This [...]

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Dataset of the Day: Mapping the State of the Union

On February 4, 2010 By emily sciarillo

Maps by Emily Sciarillo and William Benjamin

Last week President Obama presented the Congress and the American people with his examination of the state of the union after his first year in office. He outlined his achievements as well as some of his failures in the past year and presented his plans for the [...]

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