So, you’re planning a trip to Paris. GeoCommons can help. We have a point dataset of over 2,000 hotels in the beautiful city. So now, you can choose you hotel based on its location!
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Every year during the third week of November begins the Geography Awareness Week. Beginning in 1987 by presidential proclamation, Geography Awareness Week celebrates the importance of geography education in the United States. This week allows for geographers to share their ideas and show off what they have been working on.
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Continue Reading →I’m not really the romantic type but every now and again I feel it is nice to show the lady I love that she is special to me. Unfortunately, this is not always the easiest task and planning for a special night out can be frustrating. After working at FortiusOne for over a year it [...]
Continue Reading →Released this October, the MasterCard Emerging Markets Index highlights the 65 key cities that are driving growth worldwide. These countries are ranked according to their index score, derived by a panel of experts in the global economy. The report also features a look into specific factors that make each city important for corporations [...]
Continue Reading →At last a visual analytic to illustrate where all the skateparks in the United States are located. By geocoding the names and addresses of all the skateparks on the SkateBoardPark.com website, and loading the point data into Finder!, over 3,000 skateparks are represented by points on a [...]
Continue Reading →There has been a lot of talk about Barack Obama’s tax plan this political season. The biggest question seems to be, who will see their taxes increase? Well we decided to take a closer look at WHERE in the U.S. people will be most affected by the Obama’s tax increase.
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Continue Reading →So who’s producing the most beef in the world? Who’s consuming the most beef in the world? After uploading world production and consumption data into Finder from the FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations) website, I was able to reveal where most of the world’s beef is being produced and [...]
Continue Reading →There has been an interesting discussion going over on James Fee’s blog on the merits of ESRI’s new javascript API and Flex API. James has thrown his lot in with the JavaScript API, and a host of Flex/Flash developers have been exposing their technology’s merits. While we don’t use either of ESRI’s APIs internally [...]
Continue Reading →The upcoming election is becoming more interesting and dynamic every day. While the candidates contest, secure, or historically change battleground states, we have been updating datasets of the latest state by state polls to Finder!. Taking a look at these polls as they change over time, we [...]
Continue Reading →My mom called me the other day and asked me if I knew how much the U.S. spends on the military. I said that I didn’t but I that could find out. “In fact”, I told her, “I can make a map of global spending on the military by country” (because Finder! and [...]
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