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2011 in Review

On January 27, 2012 By Andrew Turner

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…

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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.

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Get Your GeoCommons Chrome App!

On February 2, 2011 By admin

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

WhereCamp5280 Hooky Bobbing

On October 26, 2010 By Chris Helm

Join us for some fun pre-wherecamp5280 geo-programming on Thursday, Nov. 18th 2010 at the historic Tivoli Student Center on the University of Colorado Denver’s campus.

If you’re coming to WhereCamp5280 and you have an affinity for scripting languages (like Python or Ruby) and you’d like to help us solve some fun geo-problems then come join [...]

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How to create cartoon animations with GeoCommons.

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