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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To be honest I haven’t played with Fusion Tables as much as I should have by now, but this weekend I thought, “why not?”. First off, I decided to try messing around and get some Fusion Tables data mapped in GeoCommons. As it turns out GeoCommons was fully ready for this, as was Fusion Tables, so doing this way all REALLY EASY. Since it was so easy I started, and nearly finished another , related hack, but more on that another day…
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I’m excited to announce that GeoIQ is adding a talented cartographer and web developer to our engineering team – Zachary Forest Johnson. I’ll let him introduce himself, but let me just say, he’s impressed me since the first time I came across his work three years ago, and it never hurts to flatter us with blogging about some cool hacks using our API.
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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 [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I presented at Where2.0 about the potential for better decision making and accessible data understanding through Collaborative Analysis. There are a lot of great examples of organizations that are sharing data and their analysis tools for better community understanding, concensus and improved intelligence.
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This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. The initiative visualizes the location of World Bank projects to better monitor project and impact on people; to enhance transparency and [...]
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