GeoIQ Developer Site

A few weeks ago we updated GeoCommons with the new major version of our platform. Amongst a number of user interface improvements we also completely re-architected our application programming interface (API) – providing a full suite of capabilities for developers to use in building applications on top of the GeoCommons and underlying GeoIQ platform.

This API integrates with all aspects of the data management, creation, visualization and analysis components both at the server level via REST and open-standards, as well as an interactive JavaScript interface for building web and mobile applications with our advanced mapping and charting capabilities. You can use it as just a place to put data – create some amazing interactive, embeddable visualizations, or as a fully integrated stack combined with your existing infrastructure of databases and collaboration tools.

To support developers and integrators that want to use our platform, we’re launching GeoIQ Developer – available at http://developer.geoiq.com. This landing site will provide a number of tools, documentation, and examples of applications that utilize the GeoIQ API in order to provide you with quick and easy suggestions for getting up and running.

We’re excited about the current applications that people have built using GeoIQ – which you can see in the gallery. Organizations such as the World Bank, Transnational Crisis Project, and the Vancouver Sun are just a few examples that you can currently check out for ideas, inspiration and code examples. We’ll be rolling out new examples over the next few weeks as more of our partners and users launch their applications. And if you would like us to highlight your GeoIQ integration – just let us know!