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Our Trip to Redlands GIS Week

On February 14, 2011 By admin


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 [...]

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What Could the Obama Administration Mean for the GeoWeb?

On November 24, 2008 By Sean Gorman

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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If You Were Sec. Paulson for a Day: A Foreclosure Clearing House?

On November 13, 2008 By Sean Gorman

On one of many flights this week I was asked the question, “what would you do with the $700 billion of bailout money?” Not an easy question to answer and there has been lots of arm chair quarterbacking on the topic. I’m hardly an expert on financial policy, but in short this was [...]

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Ethics of Crowdsourcing – What Constitutes an Abuse of the Commons

On July 29, 2008 By Sean Gorman

While getting ready to launch Finder! we had an internal debate whether or not to put limits on dataset downloading. There were several options, ranging from requiring a user to be logged in before they downloaded to limiting the number of downloads a user could make in a day. A lot of the argument centered [...]

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GeoCommons Metadata Implementation Screenshots

On April 22, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We got such useful feedback from the last metadata post I thought I would add some screen shots of how it is starting to come together. Unfortunately we were not able to get all the suggestions in because of the time crunch hitting our release date, but please keep posting the feedback and [...]

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Hierarchy or Folksonomy? Is there a Hybrid between Order and Chaos

On April 15, 2008 By Sean Gorman

When we started the very first iteration of GeoCommons in 2005 folksonomies were all the rage and we jumped on board using tags to organize the geospatial data that was pushed into the new platform. During the time we had the prototype deployed we ran into many of the same issues other applications have found [...]

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GeoWeb Metadata Follow Up

On April 2, 2008 By Sean Gorman

First off want to thanks the folk that commented on the last post. Lots of useful feedback and it also highlighted a bit of confusion I created with the first post. The purpose of the first post was not a proposal to create a new metadata standard. Instead it was simply a proposal of how [...]

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Semantics, Semantics, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

On March 20, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It seems like it is a daily dose of semantic web on the tech blogs of late. Today it was Textwise’s Million Dollar Semantic Hacker Challenge and a few days ago it was Yahoo opening their search platform to support a wide variety of semantic web standards. This has lead to a [...]

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Are Push Pins Inescapable?

On March 12, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It is only fitting that the day after I posted “Moving Push Pins Off the Map” I saw the post on Ogle Earth about a new geotagging icon….which is?

A GIANT PUSH PIN!

With my interest peaked we did a [...]

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Fantasy Football Fun: A Look at the Offense Side

On January 22, 2008 By admin

With the Superbowl just a few weeks away, thought it would be interesting to take a look back on the season leading up to the play offs and player performance from a geographical perspective. The first take, summarized in this blog, focusses on selected positions from the offense side: quarterback, running back, tight end and [...]

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