Yesterday much of the D.C. area was watching a stand-off between James J. Lee and police at Discovery Channel’s Headquarters just outside of Washington D.C. I found out about the incident as I get most of my news, through Twitter. I was interested in seeing if people were actually tweeting about the incident from [...]
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OpenStreetMap in the
World Bank Haiti Situation Room
For the past 3 weeks, since January 12, we’ve been actively involved in many efforts to provide support and analysis of the Haiti earthquake recovery. From immediate Continue Reading →
I’m about to head home for Christmas and I’m flying out of DCA in Washington, DC. I love this airport because its close by and easy to get to by Metro. Since I am currently without a four-wheeled means of transport, the Metro is my friend, as is Reagan National Airport. I’m flying home to [...]
Continue Reading →Arguably the largest positive externality to the Web ecosystem that geospatial technologies can provide is creating more linked geo-enabled data. The beauty is the externalities work both ways. Not only does the Web get more useful content we also create more reasons for the public to use geospatial tools and software. Without the ability to [...]
Continue Reading →The 2008-2009 NHL Season has been a thrilling one and it continues to be with the start of the playoffs. The game’s popularity has been growing and a rise in attendance figures has been a direct result. The Total NHL Attendance figure was broken this year for the fourth consecutive year. This news made [...]
Continue Reading →As I was driving into work today and listening to the radio I heard some interesting news. The Mega Millions drawing for tonight is up to a value of $212 million. Wow! With a ticket only costing $1 I have decided to go out and buy one. Will I end up winning? Ha, fat [...]
Continue Reading →Everyone is keeping their eye on what will happen with Obama’s stimulus package. When it does pass, Obama pledges full “transparency,” so that “citizens can see how and where their tax dollars are being spent.” So as citizens, how can we best evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of projects that will be candidates for [...]
Continue Reading →I was reading Kevin Burke’s post today on the relationship between political affiliation and charitable giving, and thought it was a great example of “collective statistical intelligence“. In the post Kevin does a set of correlations between political affiliation and a generosity index then posts the results.
While the post was fascinating and [...]
Continue Reading →Whenever we present GeoCommons there are always questions about the accuracy and validity of crowdsourced data. The standard answer has been the data is as good as the source, and we provide multiple levels of citation to clearly identify the source. Sometimes the source is an individual who created their own data and there [...]
Continue Reading →The Elections are over and Barack Obama won. Aside from historic nature of electing our first African-American President, this election was also historic based on voter turn out and the technology that was used to help make the election possible and entertaining. This election was surrounded by new technologies and innovation, including Holograms [...]
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