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GeoWeb / GIS Convergance: Ubiquitous as Spreadsheets?

On September 25, 2007 By Sean Gorman

There were two great articles that popped up in the last week or so that I’ve been trying to carve out some time to blog about. The first was an insightful overview of the GeoWeb from The Economist called “The World on Your Desktop“. One of the major points in The Economist article is [...]

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KML 3 – Allowing the Qualitative GeoWeb to also become Quantitative

On August 13, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Andrew Turner has a great series of blog posts on the future of KML that were the product of meetings at the OGC on the topic a week or so ago. Lots of interesting content in Andrew’s series, but the one most near and dear to us is the discussion on metadata. Chris [...]

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Forget celebrities with drug problem – this may be more serious…

On July 26, 2007 By admin

Imagine a situation where as many as 25 million people in the US could go to jail for possession of illegal substance.
On average 10% of U.S. population of age 12 and above smokes pot. If these many people were affected by an infectious disease such a West Nile or Avian [...]

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Heat maps of individual donor contributions to Clinton, Obama, Giuliani and Romney: 2nd quarter, 2007

On July 19, 2007 By admin

The maps below show individual donor contributions by zipcode areas to leading presidential candidates. The data for the maps are derived from the quarterly finance reports filed on July 15, 2007 with Federdal Election Commission (FEC).

Pan and zoom in to investigate the patterns of contributions at subregional levels in each [...]

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Technology Democratizing Participation – The Power of Web 2.0, the Future of GIS and Mapping?

On June 25, 2007 By Sean Gorman

OK – the title is a bit over the top sensationalistic, but the metadata debate opens up the larger topic of technology being used to increase participation. There is a long history of technology increasing participation – the PC Revolution with the microcomputer, word processor, spreadsheet, etc – Web 1.0 with online auctions, web home [...]

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Saving the world one heart attack victim and middle eastern island kingdom at a time

On November 30, 2006 By admin

I just saw an article from last weekend’s Financial Times that lauds the use of Google Earth as a tool helping to “speed the march towards a more egalitarian society” in Bahrain.

I know it sounds a bit, well, pollyannaish, but apparently Bahrain is facing an acute housing shortage [...]

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GeoIQ Release – Heat Maps for Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo! Maps, and More

On November 9, 2006 By Sean Gorman

After more work than we anticipated, the API and mashup release is ready for Prime Time. The GeoIQ API is now officially available for consumption and you can get all the good information about it at:

http://www.GeoIQ.com

Our GeoIQ Mashups

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