From the monthly archives: January 2011

WMS is often maligned as being a bloated and difficult to use standard, but there has been a ton excellent data published using it. We thought this was a great opportunity to do our part to make WMS a bit more accessible to the masses through GeoCommons. Figured, while we were at it, would [...]

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*Note: this is a cross post from our developer blog: http://developer.geoiq.com/blog/

What is Acetate?

This week we launched Acetate a collaboration between us, Stamen , and 41 Latitude which allows users to create more compelling maps in GeoCommons by essentially re-ordering the basemaps to incorporate their own layers. This [...]

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I am excited to share we are releasing a new way to visualize your dynamic data geographically – by combining it with the map rather than just on top of the map. Acetate is a brand-new custom styled map that is designed for visualizing data and reintroduces the idea of a multi-layered basemap. [...]

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Yesterday InterAction relaunched their aid transparency site focused on recovery funding and work in Haiti. Haiti Aid Map was developed in partnership with InterAction, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) and sponsored by FedEx. It provides simple, fast and accurate information about who is doing what, [...]

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Looking Forward to 2011

On January 11, 2011 By Andrew Turner

I love January. The cold weather that forces you to enjoy the warmth of a fire, the crispness of a morning snowfall, and the feeling that you’ve just hit the reset button and anything is possible. We’ve rested from the holidays, recovered from our families and festivities, and we see the horizon of [...]

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When we were doing the Twitter Black Friday analysis I started to get curious about how Tweets can give us insights to the trajectories of people. Lots of folks travel over Thanksgiving and likely even more get out of the house on Black Friday to do some shopping. We were curious how far from [...]

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Last week Apple launched their highly anticipated Mac App Store, which makes desktop application purchasing incredibly simple. In particular, an application that David Kobia pointed out was a replacement for Quicksilver, called Alfred. If you haven’t used Quicksilver, LaunchBar, or [...]

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Feast of Analytics

On January 6, 2011 By Andrew Turner

Last month we shared our thoughts and plans on making analysis social in the 12 Days of Analytics. No longer will querying and understanding data be limited to complex operational processes and individuals – but people working collaboratively and [...]

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