From the monthly archives: July 2010

Yesterday, the Huffington Post posted a short article on its front page titled “How the Economic Impact of the Oil Spill is Spreading Beyond the Gulf.” This article featured an embed of a map created in GeoCommons showing the BP [...]

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This weekend I’m off to San Diego for WhereCampSoCal. WhereCamps are a version of barcamps or unconferences specifically around geospatial topics. An unconference is an event where the agenda is determined in an ad-hoc fashion by the attendees. This is usually done the day of the event utilizing a grid scheduling system sometimes [...]

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UNdata and GeoJoin

On July 14, 2010 By admin

Recently the United Nations Statistics Division released UNdata a catalog of a variety of UN data. In the about page it is described as “This database service is part of a project launched by UNSD in 2005, called “Statistics as a Public Good”, whose objectives are to provide free access to global [...]

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I have found the recent story about the “Barefoot Bandit” to be quite fascinating. It is incredible how someone could elude authorities for so long in this day and age.

I came across an interesting graphic about the story created by Matthew Bambach of the Seattle Times. It is a map of [...]

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State of the Map in Girona

On July 7, 2010 By admin

Today I’m off to State of the Map in Girona, Spain. State of the Map or SotM is the annual OpenStreetMap conference. SotM is a mix of the businesses surrounding OpenStreetMap as well as the community. The three day conference encompasses three days, one business day and two community days.

I’ll be [...]

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Open Geodata in Haiti

On July 6, 2010 By admin

For the past couple weeks I was in Haiti with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Our project was sponsored by the World Bank and the goal was to continue to build mapping capacity within Haiti. For those unaware OpenStreetMap is a project to create a free map of the entire world, in a method similar to [...]

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