Recently I had an editorial forwarded to me from Environment and Planning B titled “Just another private public partnership? Possible constraints on scientific information in virtual map browsers”, authored by Francis Harvey of the University of Leicester (those with access can find the article here). Environment and Planning B is an academic journal [...]
Continue Reading →Geography of the escort service scandal
Among many breaking news stories this week there was one that made a splash just before the Internet release of the phone records. Since then it has been reported that several interest groups including those with particular point of view have been poring [...]
Continue Reading →Everyone else is doing it, so I thought I might as well jump on the bandwagon with everyone’s new favorite geodata topic: KML Metadata.
I’m going to try and keep this short and sweet, since so many other people are already commenting on it. Notably, the folks at Platial who propose its use [...]
Continue Reading →I just saw an article from last weekend’s Financial Times that lauds the use of Google Earth as a tool helping to “speed the march towards a more egalitarian society” in Bahrain.
I know it sounds a bit, well, pollyannaish, but apparently Bahrain is facing an acute housing shortage [...]
Continue Reading →After more work than we anticipated, the API and mashup release is ready for Prime Time. The GeoIQ API is now officially available for consumption and you can get all the good information about it at:
Our GeoIQ Mashups
New GeoCommons Maps- NYJ city barsone
- Israel Outdoors: Where our applicants are from carine
- jets by state cluster barsone
- Maissade Milko5571
- T-Mobile gulyi01
- AOD MODIS gianluca