The last few weeks have been fast paced. Between emergency response, big data migrations, and new feature launches an over arching theme has emerged in my mind. The Web’s demonstrative capacity for adaptive change – specifically the growing geo-enabled components of the Web. Pundits have talked for a while about the emergence of the locative [...]
Continue Reading →While we continue to support the reconstruction efforts in Haiti, this morning brought news of the 8.8 scale Earthquake off the coast of Chile.
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You my have noticed some changes to the front page of GeoCommons. If you are a regular user, the most obvious change will have been the uploading functionality and workflow which includes the addition of GeoJoin. You can still Geocode your own data by using our open-source geocoder to display your spreadsheet [...]
Continue Reading →Valentine’s day is this Saturday so I thought I’d made a few maps in honor of this lovers holiday. Since one thing lovers do is travel, I made a map of the 50 most romantic places in the world…at least according to Travel + Leisure in 2005. Each icon on the [...]
Continue Reading →Often I have had various GeoCommons users ask me, “How do I turn my excel spreadsheet data into proportional shapes like the map below?”
Before now I would have told these users that they would have to use complicated and expensive mapping software. This would allow [...]
Continue Reading →In the process of helping out with CrisisCommons and various Haiti relief efforts I’ve noticed recurring challenges around getting resources to sustain all the great ideas and apps being created. As I looked around at all the app contests and volunteer efforts it struck me we are creating an app junkyard. This [...]
Continue Reading →Maps by Emily Sciarillo and William Benjamin
Last week President Obama presented the Congress and the American people with his examination of the state of the union after his first year in office. He outlined his achievements as well as some of his failures in the past year and presented his plans for the [...]
Continue Reading →The beauty of Geocommons is the ease of use and ability to manipulate data quickly. Sometimes we have shapefiles of data that contain polygons, say for buildings. What if I want to view those buildings in Maker! by points rather than polygons. Easy! Simply upload your shapefile, fill out the metadata, and then download [...]
Continue Reading →Its now the third week of the disaster in Haiti and keeping up with the influx of updated information is a job and a half. Sometimes I have to search for hours and hours to find legitimate, useful information to map out projects in various parts of the world. But with resources like Open [...]
Continue Reading →One of the important aspects of sharing data is creating a format that is sharing friendly. A topic that frequently comes up at FortiusOne is bad spreadsheets.
If you are going to share a spreadsheet there are a couple ways to make it easier for those involved. Developers usually think of spreadsheets are more of [...]
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