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TechCamp

On April 30, 2012 By Andrew Turner

This week I am leading tech training at the TechCamp events in Tel Aviv and Ramallah discussing open mapping platforms for sharing and visualizing data. TechCamp is part of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Civil Society [...]

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As is typical of Springtime, the GeoIQ team will be out and about in the world presenting and meeting at a number of upcoming events.

The first, and personally the one I’m always most excited about, is WhereCamp in San Francisco. WhereCamp is the best open venue to [...]

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Tomorrow is the next Tech@State focusing on Realtime Awareness. In the afternoon I’m charing a panel on “Conveying Real-time Information”. You can still sign up for the conference tomorrow as [...]

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Last Week I participated in a panel with spatial archival experts at the at the Society of American Archivists. Led by Butch Lazorchak of the Library of Congress, and also joined by Steve Morris from GeoMAPP, and John Faundeen from USGS, the panel was a full spectrum discussion of “Geospatial Data Preservation” ranging [...]

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GeoIQ at OSCON

On July 18, 2011 By Andrew Turner

Next week, Chris and I will be trekking out to Portland, Oregon for the convergence that is known as OSCON (Open-Source Convention).

I’m speaking on day one at OSCON Data on Playful Explorations of Public and Personal Data. Open [...]

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Today I’m speaking at the Harvard Center for Geospatial Analysis on Collaborative Analysis with GeoIQ and GeoCommons. We’ve been adding more capabilities for users to really start asking questions of data and exploring in order to gain new insights. Data is that common pivot point and geography in particular where subject matter [...]

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Yesterday I presented at Where2.0 about the potential for better decision making and accessible data understanding through Collaborative Analysis. There are a lot of great examples of organizations that are sharing data and their analysis tools for better community understanding, concensus and improved intelligence.

Conversing around [...]

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This week geo-geeks descend back to the ultimate in location and mapping conferences, Where2.0. For over 7 years Where2.0 has highlighted the cutting edge in technology, businesses, markets, and personalities that moved from primarily locative hacking into what has emerged [...]

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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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This week, Chris Helm and I are at O’Reilly’s new Strata Conf to talk about our work in large scale geospatial data analysis and also learn more what is new and exciting in the data industry. Strata has emerged from what has become a community and ecosystem of tools, [...]

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