If you’re not aware of OpenStreetMap – it’s a global community of volunteers that are gathering, measuring, and improving a map of the world. We have been long time members and supporters of the OpenStreetMap community and utilize the data and technology throughout GeoIQ and GeoCommons.
We’re devoted to improving open-source geospatial technology [...]
Continue Reading →Last week we announced GeoIQ Social where anyone can immediately visualize and analyze social media data with their internal and external data. But there is more than just connecting social data, it’s is necessary to make this data available on-demand in realtime.
We’ve been focusing on connectivity across [...]
Continue Reading →When we launched GeoCommons three years ago we had high hopes that it would turn into the vibrant community that it is today. However, I must admit that from a technological standpoint we did not fully predict what the underlying GeoIQ platform would become – a complex, scalable set of [...]
Continue Reading →I’m excited to announce that GeoIQ is adding a talented cartographer and web developer to our engineering team – Zachary Forest Johnson. I’ll let him introduce himself, but let me just say, he’s impressed me since the first time I came across his work three years ago, and it never hurts to flatter us with blogging about some cool hacks using our API.
Continue Reading →One of the great parts of working GeoCommons is seeing all the interesting datasets people upload. We have everything from Afghanistan Polling Stations to Collegiate Quidditch Teams in Texas. Daily I look through for interesting information to post on either our Facebook Group or on the GeoCommons Twitter account.
One feature [...]
Continue Reading →I first talked about the ArcGIS version of our toolbars back at the DC Dev Meetup in September. Since then we’ve launched our developer site where you can download the toolbars, but you probably haven’t heard very much else about them. Designed to make sharing your analysis easier as well as find additional data we’ve [...]
Continue Reading →A core component of GeoCommons is visualizing data through maps – allowing anyone to be a cartographer. We’ve worked with a number of amazing organizations to help us make GeoCommons a leading map visualization platform – such as AxisMaps and Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago we updated GeoCommons with the new major version of our platform. Amongst a number of user interface improvements we also completely re-architected our application programming interface (API) – providing a full suite of capabilities for developers to use in building applications on top of the GeoCommons [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve come a long way in the development and usage of data standards. I’ve personally been working over the last few years to push the adoption of formats like GeoRSS and OpenSearch-Geo. These have been baked deeply into any project or product that [...]
Continue Reading →FortiusOne is rapidly growing and we have a very dedicated core engineering team and we want to work with other like minded, excited, intelligent and talented people that we respect. It’s difficult to find that right mix of a person that fits so well with [...]
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Welcome to the GeoIQ blog. We write about features of our GeoIQ analytics engine, what is new and exciting in the GeoCommons community, and general industry thought leadership and discussions of geospatial data visualization and analysis.
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