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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The current administration of the US Government has been increasingly looking at ways to both reduce costs as well as leverage more appropriate technology in order to provide services. The “Federal Cloud” is an initiative to adopt more cost-effective solutions that don’t require huge infrastructure [...]
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We’re fast into a new calendar year, predictions have been lain and we’re already beginning to see the emergence of some new and exciting technologies that will change future markets.
Last year was an incredibly exciting [...]
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The longest and most voluminous request on GeoCommons, since it’s launch, has been the ability to keep data private. While the broad ethos around GeoCommons has been collecting and sharing the world’s geographic data, the inability of use private data kept a good number of users from participating. Today we’ve removed that barrier and [...]
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To be honest I haven’t played with Fusion Tables as much as I should have by now, but this weekend I thought, “why not?”. First off, I decided to try messing around and get some Fusion Tables data mapped in GeoCommons. As it turns out GeoCommons was fully ready for this, as was Fusion Tables, so doing this way all REALLY EASY. Since it was so easy I started, and nearly finished another , related hack, but more on that another day…
Continue Reading →As newspapers look to cut costs more is being asked of reporters. Newspapers with large online presence have teams of interaction designers, data analysts and cartographers. Smaller organizations can’t compete with this type of staffing, but still want to use data to enhance stories. Being that GeoCommons’ goal is to make mapping and analysis easy for everyone it is perfect for journalists looking to do research for a story or to add a map to enhance a story. Let’s see how this might work.
Continue Reading →Back a couple months ago Google announced the Cr-48 Chrome Notebook. Being shipped to individuals in the Chrome OS Pilot Program. I was lucky enough to be the first one in the FortiusOne office to get one. Of course the first thing I did of course was go to GeoCommons and make [...]
Continue Reading →Last week Apple launched their highly anticipated Mac App Store, which makes desktop application purchasing incredibly simple. In particular, an application that David Kobia pointed out was a replacement for Quicksilver, called Alfred. If you haven’t used Quicksilver, LaunchBar, or [...]
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 →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 →
New GeoCommons Maps- Kenya Primary Schools 2007--lat and long split eglaser
- AQ Asia balbiemejia
- Oregon turnout by county jtmonti
- Ecopontos_segundo_prefeitura_de_São_Paulo jumoriana
- 123 superbzhao
- West nile virus in Illinois 2002 - billr