I believe there has always been a bit of a myth in GIS circles that the quickly growing consumer side of maps/data eschews science. Whether you call it Neogeography, the GeoWeb or NoGIS there is a perception that traditional GIS is where you do hardcore science, and the new stuff is a vacuous world of [...]
Continue Reading →The core mission of GeoCommons is bringing the power of geography to the masses. First we focused on making data more accessible, then quality cartographic visualization of data, and today we’ve added geographic analysis of data. Over Christmas we blogged about the “12 Analytics of Christmas” we’d built for GeoIQ. We are celebrating Christmas in [...]
Continue Reading →In the last blog post we talked about monolithic vs. distributed architectures. A key part of the argument is recognizing the massive value in the GIS monolith, but also realizing it is just one component of a larger whole. The new reality is a data ecosystem with many components and users. That said one of [...]
Continue Reading →In the last post we talked about the emergence of location as a feature and geographic data production coming a variety of disparate sources with a range of accuracy and trust levels. This change in the paradigm of location data we believe also means the transition of the architectures we use to manage data and analysis. As the production, consumption and analysis of [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →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, [...]
Continue Reading →Like many of you I’ve been tracking all the “hub bub” about Pete Warden and Allisdair Allen’s iPhone location exploit. There has been not only sensationalist media hype, but also claims of this being old news. Having been a victim of media hype and not particularly having any privacy concerns around my iPhone – I liberated [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve spent the last two days at Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence. It was an interesting collection of vendors and enterprise end users. It was encouraging to hear the enterprises in the audience say the agenda hit the areas where they had questions. Across these conversations some interesting meme’s emerged.
One, a general interest [...]
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