From the monthly archives: April 2010

Affected by DHD (Data Hugging Disorder)? Get cured at Beer4Data tonight at FourCourts in Arlington at 7PM. Following the success of the Beer 4 Data program in Jalalabad, Afghanistan we want to encourage those of you in the US to also share your data. In Afghanistan’s elections in 2009, [...]

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It was almost a month ago that the now infamous Icelandic volcano “Eyjafjallajokull” erupted. Since then it has been sporadically spewing a mix of toxic gases and ash into the atmosphere. Thanks to catching a ride on the jet stream the output of the mid-April eruption has managed to create a major head-ache hundreds [...]

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Yesterday I was in a session at the American Association of Geographers on “Convergence in the GeoWeb: Volunteered geographic information, spatial data infrastructures, and public participation”. Good talks all around and some interesting discussion in the Q&A period. Renee Sieber had a simple but prescient question “Is Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) the [...]

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