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 [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been working on analysis of social media for a while now, and I thought it would be interesting to try out a comparative analysis. As I watched my own Twitter stream I saw two conversations kicking between OccupyWallStreet and Egyptian unrest this morning. It made me curious how the conversations on Twitter diverged between [...]
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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 [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I presented at GIS in the Rockies here in Denver. The conference is a good one to attend if you’re looking to brush up what’s going on in the GIS space around the region and also catch up with past colleagues and friends in the GIS industry.
The local open source geospatial [...]
Continue Reading →I saw some interesting Google Fusion Table data sets popping across Twitter yesterday and wanted to see how hard it was to push them into GeoCommons. Chris Helm wrote a great post a while back on connecting Fusion Tables to GeoCommons, and I wanted to see if I could still follow directions. Chris had [...]
Continue Reading →I was pulling together some data for a customer following Hurricane Irene today and kept running into the same problem. Folks creating KML and GeoRSS feeds with awesome statistical data, but leaving it all mixed up with text in a description field. The folks at Google put up a really nice Hurricane Irene response map and [...]
Continue Reading →As we’ve done more work analyzing the spatio-temporal dimensions social media a few questions come up repeatedly. Leading the charge is the bias of social media – Twitter is just a collection of pre-teens and bots discussing Justin Bieber. The implication being that social media does not provide a representative sample of the population. For example there is likely [...]
Continue Reading →Andrew and I both attended, and spoke at, O’Reilly’s OSCON 2011 last week. All around it was a great experience. There was never a session with less than two talks worth seeing.
On Monday Andrew spoke at the OSCON Data “sub-conference” about exploring ways to play with (analyze and visualize) personal and private [...]
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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 [...]
Continue Reading →Over the last few blog posts we’ve raised several problems with the current approach to GIS, but have not specifically offered solutions. At some point you have to stop being an armchair quarterback and provide suggestion for a path forward. Since our critique has meandered across multiple blog posts I thought it would be useful [...]
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New GeoCommons Maps- Kenya Primary Schools 2007--lat and long split eglaser
- AQ Asia balbiemejia
- Oregon turnout by county jtmonti
- Ecopontos_segundo_prefeitura_de_São_Paulo jumoriana
- 123 superbzhao
- West nile virus in Illinois 2002 - billr