This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. The initiative visualizes the location of World Bank projects to better monitor project and impact on people; to enhance transparency and [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve come a long way in the development and usage of data standards. I’ve personally been working over the last few years to push the adoption of formats like GeoRSS and OpenSearch-Geo. These have been baked deeply into any project or product that [...]
Continue Reading →As he mentioned this morning on Twitter, Tim “Chippy” Waters is coming onboard to bring some serious psychogeography and new geospatial capabilities to GeoCommons.
Tim has many accomplishments, from Geocodr, the first geocoder based on Flickr photo tags [...]
Continue Reading →Ever since the news broke that ESRI recieved a Whitehouse contract to:
merge a federal website that publishes geospatial information with Data.gov, the government’s depot for downloadable data sets, the company’s president said on Thursday.
California-based ESRI began last summer tying Data.gov to Geodata.gov, the geospatial information gateway, said company President Jack Dangermond in [...]
Continue Reading →The beauty of Geocommons is the ease of use and ability to manipulate data quickly. Sometimes we have shapefiles of data that contain polygons, say for buildings. What if I want to view those buildings in Maker! by points rather than polygons. Easy! Simply upload your shapefile, fill out the metadata, and then download [...]
Continue Reading →Last year, SlashGeo and Ogle Earth reported that Mathematica 7 imports geographic data. Now, you can import such data to Mathematica 7 directly from Finder!
So if you are searching for geographic data to use with Mathematica 7, try Finder.
Once you’ve found data (for example, an earthquake feed from USGS) [...]
Continue Reading →Todd came into town for the Gov2.0 Summit last week, and in additional to dropping off a terabyte worth of data from Afghanistan, he talked a bit about what has made the “beer for data” program work at the Taj. Outside the universal thirst for beer data sharing success boiled down [...]
Continue Reading →One of the intriguing aspects of GeoCommons and its increasing wealth of data, is being able to harness official source and government data on our publicly available interfaces Finder! and Maker!. You can search Finder for a plethora of different types and topics of data. You’re able to upload your own data which you’ve created [...]
Continue Reading →In the last post I whinged about what I thought was wrong with the various “geo” stimulus proposals, so I thought in this post I would talk about what I think is right. In short the value is in the data and making the data available to the public. Making data available [...]
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New GeoCommons Maps- Locations of "Unique" ESTC imprints at Penn amfraas
- Aggregation of Zip Codes for the USA into USA Counties by State with FIPS Codes JoeHair
- Total Data 2008-2013 acrumpton
- test Zillow, New York Neighborhood Boundaries, New York, 2007 gregfelice
- Sav.ServiceArea fadingdust
- Neighborhoods - SF Assoc. of Realtors, San Francisco, 2008 ebcounts
- New GeoCommons Datasets
- IL Counties
- Export Output
- Tile Layer
- health REQUIRED: The person responsible for the metadata information.
- IL Counties
- IL Counties v2