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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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A Proposal for a GeoWeb Metadata Implementation

On April 1, 2008 By Sean Gorman

One of the criticisms we received when we launched GeoCommons was the lack of metadata for the content we had collected. Since then we’ve been looking into what would be a reasonable approach to implement metadata for the GeoWeb.

When it comes to GIS data the existing standard is the FGDC’s Content Standard for [...]

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Content for ArcGIS Explorer vs. Google Earth

On March 25, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I thought it would be fun to take a different angle on the virtual globe competition and look at the content and data made available by two of the players – Google and ESRI. From a technical perspective I think most would agree that ArcGIS explorer is pale emulation of Google Earth especially when it [...]

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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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ETech Day Three – Elephants, Fire Eagles and Disaster Tech

On March 5, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I got a bit wrapped up trying to get a side project finished up yesterday, so I’ll just skip to day three of ETech. The morning opening speakers were better that Day Two, although the session thus far have been a bit below Day Two’s. We kicked off the morning with an abbreviated talk [...]

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NeoGeography vs. GIS: The Steel Cage Death Match Continues

On December 10, 2007 By Sean Gorman

There has been a flurry of blogging the last couple of days over a post on the “All Point Blog” that “Neogeography is not GIS“. The most interesting part has been seeing the response from friends like, Peter Batty, Andrew Turner, and Daniel Flatla, who’ve spent a lot of time thinking [...]

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GeoServer Map Collaboration Tools – "NYC Street Maps"

On December 6, 2007 By Sean Gorman

We’ve been doing work recently integrating GeoServer with GeoCommons to provide more hooks and capabilities for our platform. I was catching up reading the GeoServer blog and saw a new demo they had going to demonstrate their map annotations tools in development.

The map only has a base street map for [...]

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Myths of Crowdsouring

On November 3, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Figured I would keep on the crowdsourced data theme going with some myths I’ve seen crop up in many people’s perception of crowdsourced data and its reliability. First lets take a step back and look at a definition of crowdsourcing, ” [the] act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, [...]

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Data Should be the Intel "Outside": The Power of Data Network Effects

On October 19, 2007 By Sean Gorman

The folks at Puhpin had a great comment they posted to our last blog entry on “free public data“. I thought there was enough interesting content to expand on the comment thread with another blog post. The Pushpin team did a great job providing far more nuanced thoughts on the issues of “for fee” [...]

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