Right before Christmas I headed out to San Jose for a conference on social media hosted by the Office of Naval Research.  It was an interesting cross section of government research on social media and comercial social media companies that provided either  social media apps (Facebook, Google+, Yahoo) or analytics (Topsy, Radian6, SAS).  There [...]

Maps are awesome. Adding charts to a map is even more awesome. In addition to mapping data at Geocommons, users can now visualize the same data by utilizing our newly introduced charts.  The backbone of these charts was created using g.Raphael, which is based on Raphael‘s JavaScript graphics library. RaphaelJS offers the unique [...]

As the number of data sets on GeoCommons continues to grow we are constantly looking for new ways to allow users to explore the data.  A variety of recent projects have pushed us develop new tools for interacting with emerging multidimensional data streams.  Today we are pushing out a new release that gives you three [...]

Since the beginning of the year, the GeoIQ Engineers have been working with our commercial and government customers to help them leverage the combination of location data and social networks to make faster and better decisions. Today, we are excited to package that capability into a new product, GeoIQ Social, that will [...]

Next week some of the GeoIQ team will be presenting and attending at the Free and Open Source Software for GeoSpatial (FOSS4G) conference in Denver, CO. The conference looks like it’s shaping up to be a great one. There are some really amazing talks planned and a great list [...]