There is a good chance that you’ve been using Google Docs. Its a great way to share spreadsheets, documents, and information throughout your organization, or with friends and family. Ever wanted to plot you data on map, create thematics or animate it over time? This tutorial will focus on how to build Maps in GeoCommons [...]
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 →Steve Chilton of Middlesex University recently created a cool map in GeoCommons comparing street coverage for OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Google/TeleAtlas in several cities across the globe. It provided a fascinating perspective and thought it would be cool to share it with the community.
The project began with work by Bernard Zwischenbrugger to visually [...]
Continue Reading →With the elections over I’ve had a little time to think about what the new administration could mean for the GeoWeb. For those who follow the GeoWanking list serv there has been a raging debate on neogeography versus paleogeography. Some of the rhetoric reminds me of the just finished election and how we strive [...]
Continue Reading →The Google GEO APIs team developed a KML Interactive Sampler page. Now people, who want to learn KML, can learn by examples. The Sampler page uses the Google Earth Plugin to demonstrate various features while displaying KML code.
Next week, George Mason University and the University of Virginia are celebrating GIS [...]
Continue Reading →We’re wrapping up a great time at GEOINT this week, and wanted to share just a few short posts that caught our attention about the show. Sean Gillies gives his hilarious opinion of the GEOINT blog, while All Points Joe Francica shared a biting commentary for one vendor who Continue Reading →
Ogle Earth shares a plethora of links with everything from a 3-D globe viewer from Microsoft Virtual Earth’s API to heatmaps of georeferenced Panoramio photos to a job search using ReliefWeb’s map of humanitarian vacancies. It really shows that you can use a map for anything.
Reverse geocoding for Google Maps is [...]
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