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Semantics, Semantics, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

On March 20, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It seems like it is a daily dose of semantic web on the tech blogs of late. Today it was Textwise’s Million Dollar Semantic Hacker Challenge and a few days ago it was Yahoo opening their search platform to support a wide variety of semantic web standards. This has lead to a [...]

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MIT's GeoWeb Repository of Data

On March 16, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We came across a small blurb in the MIT news today about the release of “MIT GeoWeb”

“… a new interface to the MIT Geodata Repository, enables users to access Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, once accessible only in ArcGIS, through a standard web browser.”

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Myths of Crowdsouring

On November 3, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Figured I would keep on the crowdsourced data theme going with some myths I’ve seen crop up in many people’s perception of crowdsourced data and its reliability. First lets take a step back and look at a definition of crowdsourcing, ” [the] act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, [...]

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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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Technology Democratizing Participation – The Power of Web 2.0, the Future of GIS and Mapping?

On June 25, 2007 By Sean Gorman

OK – the title is a bit over the top sensationalistic, but the metadata debate opens up the larger topic of technology being used to increase participation. There is a long history of technology increasing participation – the PC Revolution with the microcomputer, word processor, spreadsheet, etc – Web 1.0 with online auctions, web home [...]

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How Much Metadata is Enough: Is there a GIS – Neogeography Middle Ground?

On June 20, 2007 By Sean Gorman

A few weeks ago James Fee wrote a blog post about a debate he had with Steven Citron-Pousty concerning the usefulness of GeoCommons. From a high level the argument came down to the GIS vs. Neogeogrpahy debate. There were great quotes on both sides like “freaking sweet” in support and “pretty worthless” [...]

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