From the monthly archives: July 2011
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GeoIQ at OSCON

On July 18, 2011 By Andrew Turner

Next week, Chris and I will be trekking out to Portland, Oregon for the convergence that is known as OSCON (Open-Source Convention).

I’m speaking on day one at OSCON Data on Playful Explorations of Public and Personal Data. Open [...]

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Private Data and Groups for GeoCommons!!

On July 12, 2011 By Sean Gorman

The longest and most voluminous request on GeoCommons, since it’s launch, has been the ability to keep data private.  While the broad ethos around GeoCommons has been collecting and sharing the world’s geographic data, the inability of use private data kept a good number of users from participating.  Today we’ve removed that barrier and [...]

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Democratizing GIS through Participatory Accessibility

On July 7, 2011 By Sean Gorman

Over the last few blog posts we’ve raised several problems with the current approach to GIS, but have not specifically offered solutions.  At some point you have to stop being an armchair quarterback and provide suggestion for a path forward.  Since our critique has meandered across multiple blog posts I thought it would be useful [...]

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