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 [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been working with Twitter’s streaming API for some time and thinking about how we could effectively leverage it for geographic analysis. Especially, as sentiment analysis has made progress the possibilities for using Twitter as a leading indicator of market reaction by geography is very exciting. To this end we’ve combined location based analysis 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 [...]
Affected by DHD (Data Hugging Disorder)? Get cured at Beer4Data tonight at FourCourts in Arlington at 7PM. Following the success of the Beer 4 Data program in Jalalabad, Afghanistan we want to encourage those of you in the US to also share your data. In Afghanistan’s elections in 2009, [...]
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Arguably the largest positive externality to the Web ecosystem that geospatial technologies can provide is creating more linked geo-enabled data. The beauty is the externalities work both ways. Not only does the Web get more useful content we also create more reasons for the public to use geospatial tools and software. Without the ability to [...]
Continue Reading →A group of UCLA geographers published a paper yesterday in the MIT International Review entitled “Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery”. The UCLA team used purely open source data, including “Landsat ETM+, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Defense Meteorological Satellite, QuickBird”. Then used a variety of commons geographic analysis [...]
Continue Reading →Steve Chilton of Middlesex University recently created a cool map in GeoCommons comparing street coverage for OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Google/TeleAtlas in several cities across the globe. It provided a fascinating perspective and thought it would be cool to share it with the community.
The project began with work by Bernard Zwischenbrugger to visually [...]
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 [...]
Continue Reading →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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New GeoCommons Maps- Domestic airports in DRC justgio
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- Land Development Basemap abotello
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