There is a good chance that you’ve been using Google Docs. Its a great way to share spreadsheets, documents, and information throughout your organization, or with friends and family. Ever wanted to plot you data on map, create thematics or animate it over time? This tutorial will focus on how to build Maps in GeoCommons [...]
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This week I was at SxSW Interactive, for those that aren’t familiar it is a 5 day conference about new technology. I was there to be on a panel about “Interoperable Location Data” with Josh Babetski from Mapquest, Adam DuVander of Programmable Web, Scott Raymond from Gowalla and Tyler Bell of Factual. The premise of the panel was that many organizations are currently creating point of interest databases, but how do you combine them or allow them to interact?
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A few weeks ago, during US Presidents Day, Big Window Labs and Code For America held a Data Camp hackathon. Over the past two years there has been an increasing, and interesting, interaction at the convergence of technologists and government policy. Driven by, and [...]
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Last week Andrew and I went to Redlands GIS Week. Hosted by Esri it was a conference of students, academics and professionals. Each year there is a different topic and the one covered this week was Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): Real-Time and Emergency Applications. Essentially this is how can crowd-sourced [...]
This week I’m off to Camp Roberts again for this quarter’s RELIEF exercise. FortiusOne has been participating for the past year or so in RELIEF, which is a crisis response integration exercise. Essentially different groups get together to hack on things and make them work together.
The first of these exercises that FortiusOne participated in [...]
Continue Reading →With the elections over I’ve had a little time to think about what the new administration could mean for the GeoWeb. For those who follow the GeoWanking list serv there has been a raging debate on neogeography versus paleogeography. Some of the rhetoric reminds me of the just finished election and how we strive [...]
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New GeoCommons Maps- Domestic airports in DRC justgio
- DIABETES SAMPLE RRU Map dschafer97
- RRU NJ Sample data dschafer97
- Salitral_11072011_MultipartT chamaepetes
- Land Development Basemap abotello
- Cocker and Marron Valleys Addresses DGBlaylock