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Better Know a GeoCommons Feature, Tags

On October 14, 2010 By admin

In this addition of “Better Know a Feature” learn how to tag your data and maps in GeoCommons.

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Andrew's Talk at Web 2.0 Expo: Trends and Technology in Where 2.0

On September 18, 2008 By bill greer

Our own Andrew Turner and Mikel Maron presented at Web 2.0 Expo today on trends and technology in Where 2.0.

Cutting Edge Where 2.0 Trends

To kick things off Brady Forrest of O’Reilly and Andrew just published a report on the GeoWeb space, it’s available now.

For those not familiar [...]

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James Fee Gives His Two Cents on GIS and GeoWeb

On June 4, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We had the opportunity to catch up with James Fee at Spatially Adjusted and Planet Geospatial to get his opinion on the current and future state of GIS and the GeoWeb. James is a certified GIS Professional (GISP) and GIS developer, analyst, and consultant and has spent the [...]

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Links List 5.30.08

On May 30, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Are paper maps no more? GIS Lounge reports that the cartography division of the California State Automobile Association is slowly being phased out. The cause for the demise is the widespread availability of online map directions and in-car navigation units which cut demand for the paper maps by 13% in 2007.

The [...]

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GeoCommons Metadata Implementation Screenshots

On April 22, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We got such useful feedback from the last metadata post I thought I would add some screen shots of how it is starting to come together. Unfortunately we were not able to get all the suggestions in because of the time crunch hitting our release date, but please keep posting the feedback and [...]

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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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Links List 4.11.08

On April 11, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Brett Taylor says that we need a Wikipedia for data. He realizes how hard it is for a everyday programmer to get access to even the most basic factual data, which is a barrier to innovation.

Dave Bouwman shows us the National Geographic MetaLens service with Virtual Earth. MetaLens is a geospatial [...]

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GeoWeb Metadata Follow Up

On April 2, 2008 By Sean Gorman

First off want to thanks the folk that commented on the last post. Lots of useful feedback and it also highlighted a bit of confusion I created with the first post. The purpose of the first post was not a proposal to create a new metadata standard. Instead it was simply a proposal of how [...]

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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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Content for ArcGIS Explorer vs. Google Earth

On March 25, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I thought it would be fun to take a different angle on the virtual globe competition and look at the content and data made available by two of the players – Google and ESRI. From a technical perspective I think most would agree that ArcGIS explorer is pale emulation of Google Earth especially when it [...]

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