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Links List 4.18.08

On April 18, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Moxie designed a demonstration to show how integrated geo spatial service, RIA technology, location based service and digital mapa can make life easier. From that, a geo spatial service was developed that enabled Flex Yahoo AS3 map application.

Virtual Earth has been updated to include new imagery, new [...]

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Hierarchy or Folksonomy? Is there a Hybrid between Order and Chaos

On April 15, 2008 By Sean Gorman

When we started the very first iteration of GeoCommons in 2005 folksonomies were all the rage and we jumped on board using tags to organize the geospatial data that was pushed into the new platform. During the time we had the prototype deployed we ran into many of the same issues other applications have found [...]

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Map Creation Apps – Google vs. Microsoft vs. Yahoo

On April 9, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I promised Andrew a comparison of the big three map creation applications by feature and functionality, so here it goes. The story of how lightweight web based map creation applications came to be is interesting in and of itself. I think looking at how the three applications evolved historically will provide a bit of [...]

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A Proposal for a GeoWeb Metadata Implementation

On April 1, 2008 By Sean Gorman

One of the criticisms we received when we launched GeoCommons was the lack of metadata for the content we had collected. Since then we’ve been looking into what would be a reasonable approach to implement metadata for the GeoWeb.

When it comes to GIS data the existing standard is the FGDC’s Content Standard for [...]

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Data Should be the Intel "Outside": The Power of Data Network Effects

On October 19, 2007 By Sean Gorman

The folks at Puhpin had a great comment they posted to our last blog entry on “free public data“. I thought there was enough interesting content to expand on the comment thread with another blog post. The Pushpin team did a great job providing far more nuanced thoughts on the issues of “for fee” [...]

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Why Pay for Data? Even Pirate Attacks are Free!

On October 17, 2007 By Sean Gorman

We’ve been playing around lately with some new data visualization techniques, so I started poking around to see what approaches have been generating buzz of late. In the process I came across Stamen Design’s very cool “Oakland CrimeSpotting” via Brady’s post on O’Reilly Radar. We’d been really impressed with what they did [...]

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Crowdsourcing to Create Resilience: Why Security through Obscurity will Never Work

On October 15, 2007 By Sean Gorman

NPR ran a story on Monday’s Morning Edition entitled “Security Officials Seek to Block Some Online Maps”. The story centered around local government officials refusing to release electronic maps of what they call “critical infrastructure,” such as water mains and fire hydrants. Specifically the story of Steven Whitaker’s futile quest to obtain infrastructure data [...]

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KML 3 – Allowing the Qualitative GeoWeb to also become Quantitative

On August 13, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Andrew Turner has a great series of blog posts on the future of KML that were the product of meetings at the OGC on the topic a week or so ago. Lots of interesting content in Andrew’s series, but the one most near and dear to us is the discussion on metadata. Chris [...]

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