One of the great parts of working GeoCommons is seeing all the interesting datasets people upload. We have everything from Afghanistan Polling Stations to Collegiate Quidditch Teams in Texas. Daily I look through for interesting information to post on either our Facebook Group or on the GeoCommons Twitter account.
One feature [...]
Continue Reading →A core component of GeoCommons is visualizing data through maps – allowing anyone to be a cartographer. We’ve worked with a number of amazing organizations to help us make GeoCommons a leading map visualization platform – such as AxisMaps and Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago we updated GeoCommons with the new major version of our platform. Amongst a number of user interface improvements we also completely re-architected our application programming interface (API) – providing a full suite of capabilities for developers to use in building applications on top of the GeoCommons [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve come a long way in the development and usage of data standards. I’ve personally been working over the last few years to push the adoption of formats like GeoRSS and OpenSearch-Geo. These have been baked deeply into any project or product that [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve traveled to GeoCommons in the past day you may have noticed two old friends strangely missing. I’m referring to Finder! and Maker! specifically. This superficial change is indicative of more substantial changes that happened under the hood. For starters we have refactored our Ruby on Rails codebase, previously there were three Rails [...]
Continue Reading →This week some of the other engineers are off to Google I/O, look for plenty of GeoIQ and Geocommons goodness in the Developer Sandbox there. FortiusOne is a Google Enterprise Partner and we’ve performed integration with Google applications on both the Geocommons and GeoIQ side. On Geocommons we’ve integrated with [...]
Continue Reading →OpenSearch specifies rules for sending and receiving data from websites. GeoCommons supports OpenSearch for querying of both maps and overlays. For non-programmers the most common use of OpenSearch is adding search providers to your browser. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox all support OpenSearch.
Here is the dropdown of my search providers in Firefox. In [...]
Continue Reading →For Colbert fans the “Better Know a District” series is a familiar part of the Colbert Report. Today I’m kicking off my own series “Better Know a GeoCommons Feature.” I’d like you to meet one of our lesser known export formats Spatialite.
For those not familiar with SpatiaLite it is SQLite with spatial function [...]
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