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Content for ArcGIS Explorer vs. Google Earth

On March 25, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I thought it would be fun to take a different angle on the virtual globe competition and look at the content and data made available by two of the players – Google and ESRI. From a technical perspective I think most would agree that ArcGIS explorer is pale emulation of Google Earth especially when it [...]

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MIT's GeoWeb Repository of Data

On March 16, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We came across a small blurb in the MIT news today about the release of “MIT GeoWeb”

“… a new interface to the MIT Geodata Repository, enables users to access Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, once accessible only in ArcGIS, through a standard web browser.”

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Are Push Pins Inescapable?

On March 12, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It is only fitting that the day after I posted “Moving Push Pins Off the Map” I saw the post on Ogle Earth about a new geotagging icon….which is?

A GIANT PUSH PIN!

With my interest peaked we did a [...]

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Moving Pushpins off the Map

On March 11, 2008 By Sean Gorman

During a late night epiphany we decided the blog had gotten a bit stale. So, to encourage a regular flow of content we figured a new look and pithy title would be just the trick. Welcome to the shiny-new, rebranded, USGS approved “Off the Map”. Now fortified with vitamins, minerals, insight, and elegant prose.

Why [...]

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ETech Day Three – Elephants, Fire Eagles and Disaster Tech

On March 5, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I got a bit wrapped up trying to get a side project finished up yesterday, so I’ll just skip to day three of ETech. The morning opening speakers were better that Day Two, although the session thus far have been a bit below Day Two’s. We kicked off the morning with an abbreviated talk [...]

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Obama campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 4, 2007 By admin

Obama campaign has spent well over $44.5 million in the first nine months of 2007 in over 600 cities and 1200 zipcode areas across the lower 48 states. The top five states account for nearly 64% of the money spent. These are:
1. IL $11.9 million
2. MA $3.9 million
3. PA [...]

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Clinton campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 3, 2007 By admin

Clinton campaign spent nearly $38 million (see the note at end) in nearly 1200 zipcode area in over 600 cities across the lower 48 states. The five states ranked in terms of the highest spending are:
1. DC $7.8 million
2. VA $6.5 million
3. NJ $3.9 million
4. UT $3.3 [...]

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Giuliani campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 2, 2007 By admin

Giuliani campaign has spent nearly $32 million (see the note below) in the first nine months of 2007 on items that include staff payrolls, travel, credit card payments, consulting, media etc. The top five states account for nearly 75% of the money spent that include more than 440 cities and over 870 zipcode areas in [...]

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Romney campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 2, 2007 By admin

Romney campaign spent more than $56 million (see the note at the end) in the first 9 months of 2007 in nearly 1,300 zipcode area of more than 740 cities across the lower 48 states. By far they have outspent major candidates of either party. In the two crucial caucus/primary states of Iowa and New [...]

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Myths of Crowdsouring

On November 3, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Figured I would keep on the crowdsourced data theme going with some myths I’ve seen crop up in many people’s perception of crowdsourced data and its reliability. First lets take a step back and look at a definition of crowdsourcing, ” [the] act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, [...]

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