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Power Law Distributions of Google Indexed KML: Is the Long Tail the Wrong Tail for the GeoWeb

On April 29, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We made the cross country hop out to Santa Clara to attend Location Intelligence today. The weather is awesome and we just finished the morning workshops. I sat in on Lior Ron and David Minogue’s talk on “Searching the GeoWeb“.

The talk produced many interesting insights on Google’s approach to searching geodata, but one [...]

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Virtual Earth vs. Google MyMaps KML Support

On April 26, 2008 By Sean Gorman

As we’ve been putting GeoCommons through its paces I’ve been testing KML files we generate in different applications. The most interesting comparison by far has been between Virtual Earth and Google MyMaps. I did a high level comparison of the two plus Yahoo! MapMixer a few blog posts back, but after testing several KML [...]

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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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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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