The current administration of the US Government has been increasingly looking at ways to both reduce costs as well as leverage more appropriate technology in order to provide services. The “Federal Cloud” is an initiative to adopt more cost-effective solutions that don’t require huge infrastructure [...]
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Last week the tremendous team at the United Nations Environment Programme GRID-Arendal launched their OCEANIDS tool. Focused on sharing and open access to rich scientific data, the team is using GeoIQ to engage with citizens, governments, and researchers around the world to collaborate on important [...]
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Tomorrow is the next Tech@State focusing on Realtime Awareness. In the afternoon I’m charing a panel on “Conveying Real-time Information”. You can still sign up for the conference tomorrow as [...]
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We’re fast into a new calendar year, predictions have been lain and we’re already beginning to see the emergence of some new and exciting technologies that will change future markets.
Last year was an incredibly exciting [...]
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If you’re not aware of OpenStreetMap – it’s a global community of volunteers that are gathering, measuring, and improving a map of the world. We have been long time members and supporters of the OpenStreetMap community and utilize the data and technology throughout GeoIQ and GeoCommons.
We’re devoted to improving open-source geospatial technology [...]
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Over the recent several years governments have begun publishing more of their quality local data online. The reasons vary but typically range from inventive and progressive thinking administrations to decreed government mandate.
Publishing data online is not as straight-forward as it may first appear. It is easy for an organization to simply create a webpage [...]
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Today at the Fall Annual Meetings the World Bank is hosting a special event to highlight “Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions“. The goal is to create a dialog discussing how openness in data and knowledge can positively change [...]
Continue Reading →Last Week I participated in a panel with spatial archival experts at the at the Society of American Archivists. Led by Butch Lazorchak of the Library of Congress, and also joined by Steve Morris from GeoMAPP, and John Faundeen from USGS, the panel was a full spectrum discussion of “Geospatial Data Preservation” ranging [...]
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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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Yesterday we announced that we were making Analysis functions available or everyone on the GeoIQ community site, GeoCommons. As Sean pointed out, this is a revolution in opening access to the tools for anyone to ask their own questions of data without requiring desktop tools or long-training. It’s our hope that through open analysis [...]
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- Connecticut Pedestrian Fatalities with Rail Buffer RenataPS
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- February 21-22, 2012 CO & WY High Wind Event ExaminerWeather
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