From the monthly archives: May 2011

GeoCommons 2.0

On May 31, 2011 By Sean Gorman

We are excited to announce the launch of GeoCommons 2.0!  The engineering team has done some amazing work to upgrade the GeoIQ platform across the board (If you’re unaware, GeoIQ is our software platform powering GeoCommons).  As data volumes and rates have exploded from the emergence of social, local and mobile data the core [...]

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Location as a Feature

On May 26, 2011 By Sean Gorman

In the last post on the GeoIQ blog we talked about possible contradictions in the definition of GIS.  Tom Buckley had an interesting point this may be more of an American phenomenon than a global one.  Several others were more blunt in their adherence to GIS as the catch all term for location.  Giving it some [...]

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There was a spurt of debate on Twitter today about what is GIS.  Specifically, if many of the new innovations around location are all just re-skinned GIS or if it is something fundamentally different.  The divide seems to be roughly between folks that are long time GIS users and folks new to space or [...]

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Today I’m speaking at the Harvard Center for Geospatial Analysis on Collaborative Analysis with GeoIQ and GeoCommons. We’ve been adding more capabilities for users to really start asking questions of data and exploring in order to gain new insights. Data is that common pivot point and geography in particular where subject matter [...]

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I was traveling yesterday and felt like I missed a lot of the conversation about the demise of Osama Bin Laden, so wanted to try and catchup a bit today.  We set up a Twitter collection yesterday to capture conversations about Bin Laden in the wake of the news.  The volumes, as noted elsewhere, [...]

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