Sharing geographic data and maps is at the core of GeoCommons, and today we took it one step further. You can now embed your maps directly into your Facebok feed allowing your friends to interact with a map right there an then. The best part is that you don’t need to do anything special: just [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest improvements of Geocommons 2.0 over the previous version is the brand new map visualization engine – codename Sputnik. As was already pointed out here, here and here, we can now render tens of thousands objects extremely fast. For example, the map below map renders over 15,000 points [...]
Continue Reading →This year’s Where2.0 can be simply summarized in four words: less hype – more business, which in my opinion is a very welcome development. As we pointed out in a pre-Where2.0 post, yesterday’s experimental technologies have matured into market-proven businesses, and as location data proliferates every aspect of everyday life, more and more interesting [...]
Continue Reading →Carrying on with The 12 Analytics of Christmas, let’s take a look at one of the simplest yet most powerful analytics feature – Buffer. In a nutshell, Buffer allows you to set a perimeter around your points, lines or polygons by a specified distance. So if you want to show a ‘noise’ perimeter [...]
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