I came across an article that appeared in the New York Times called “Bleeding Heart Tightwads” by Nicholas D. Kristof. Kristof, a liberal, goes on to say that liberals tend to be stingy when it comes to giving to charity. I found it to be very interesting and also contradictory to what I originally [...]
Continue Reading →There has been an interesting discussion going over on James Fee’s blog on the merits of ESRI’s new javascript API and Flex API. James has thrown his lot in with the JavaScript API, and a host of Flex/Flash developers have been exposing their technology’s merits. While we don’t use either of ESRI’s APIs internally [...]
Continue Reading →As the continuing turmoil in the financial sector and a mind boggling trillion $ bailout are together contributing to the general feeling of economic gloom and doom across the nation, the distressing news of a big bank failure last Thursday made it worse. The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), announced that it had [...]
Continue Reading →When Laurie was working on her blog post covering the geopolitics of oil, she asked Raj and I to help out with creating some maps. She had some nice data showing the known oil and natural gas reserves around the globe. Specifically, she wanted some 3D maps to really show the relative amounts of oil [...]
Continue Reading →With so much of talk about energy policies on the Presidential campaign trail, I decided to look into the nuclear option that both the candidates support to different degrees. Lo and behold I found a listing of nuclear power plants in Finder!. Now that we have all these nuclear power plants [...]
Continue Reading →Sean mentioned in his blog about how pooling together of efforts by Andrew, Sean, Bill et. al, the Fortifacture/MapuCommons folks were able to bring to you in record time the near-real time pollution data from Beijing. As we were working on this, we realized that there is a huge difference in the perceptions between the [...]
Continue Reading →With the rise of post-partisan Obama on the national political scene, there have been sporadic stories in the print and on-line media , in Op-Eds, on the cable-news/YouTube and in the blogs; of how some influential Republicans have turned into Obama supporters, the so called Obamacans, reverse [...]
Continue Reading →As the unprecendented Midwest floods continue to play havoc with people’s lives and property, one of the hardest hit is the farm sector. With millions of acres of farmland under flood waters, farmers are facing billions of $ worth of crops losses.
However, all is not lost for these farmers. Uncle Sam does offer [...]
We had the opportunity to speak with Steve Coast, the Founder of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Cloud Made as well as The Fake Steve Coast. Prior to creating OSM and Cloud Made, the real Steve Coast interned at Wolfram Research then pursued a degree in computer science and physics at the [...]
Continue Reading →Came across a great data set on Finder! (thanks Laurie) yesterday that shows how bringing the worlds of GIS and the GeoWeb together can be insanely useful. This dataset shows the 500-year flood plain for Johnson County, Iowa. This includes Iowa City. Making highly detailed and technical data easy for people to consume could potentially [...]
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