Over the recent several years governments have begun publishing more of their quality local data online. The reasons vary but typically range from inventive and progressive thinking administrations to decreed government mandate.
Publishing data online is not as straight-forward as it may first appear. It is easy for an organization to simply create a webpage [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been working on analysis of social media for a while now, and I thought it would be interesting to try out a comparative analysis. As I watched my own Twitter stream I saw two conversations kicking between OccupyWallStreet and Egyptian unrest this morning. It made me curious how the conversations on Twitter diverged between [...]
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Today at the Fall Annual Meetings the World Bank is hosting a special event to highlight “Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions“. The goal is to create a dialog discussing how openness in data and knowledge can positively change [...]
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Next week some of the GeoIQ team will be presenting and attending at the Free and Open Source Software for GeoSpatial (FOSS4G) conference in Denver, CO. The conference looks like it’s shaping up to be a great one. There are some really amazing talks planned and a great list [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I presented at GIS in the Rockies here in Denver. The conference is a good one to attend if you’re looking to brush up what’s going on in the GIS space around the region and also catch up with past colleagues and friends in the GIS industry.
The local open source geospatial [...]
Continue Reading →I saw some interesting Google Fusion Table data sets popping across Twitter yesterday and wanted to see how hard it was to push them into GeoCommons. Chris Helm wrote a great post a while back on connecting Fusion Tables to GeoCommons, and I wanted to see if I could still follow directions. Chris had [...]
Continue Reading →Last Week I participated in a panel with spatial archival experts at the at the Society of American Archivists. Led by Butch Lazorchak of the Library of Congress, and also joined by Steve Morris from GeoMAPP, and John Faundeen from USGS, the panel was a full spectrum discussion of “Geospatial Data Preservation” ranging [...]
Continue Reading →I was pulling together some data for a customer following Hurricane Irene today and kept running into the same problem. Folks creating KML and GeoRSS feeds with awesome statistical data, but leaving it all mixed up with text in a description field. The folks at Google put up a really nice Hurricane Irene response map and [...]
Continue Reading →As we’ve done more work analyzing the spatio-temporal dimensions social media a few questions come up repeatedly. Leading the charge is the bias of social media – Twitter is just a collection of pre-teens and bots discussing Justin Bieber. The implication being that social media does not provide a representative sample of the population. For example there is likely [...]
Continue Reading →Andrew and I both attended, and spoke at, O’Reilly’s OSCON 2011 last week. All around it was a great experience. There was never a session with less than two talks worth seeing.
On Monday Andrew spoke at the OSCON Data “sub-conference” about exploring ways to play with (analyze and visualize) personal and private [...]
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New GeoCommons Maps- Mapping Democratic Participation: Money & Recalls geographer
- Petition Circulators in SD13 geographer
- MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS_RANGES_TRAINING_AREAS_PT sparker
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- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
- New GeoCommons Datasets
- REGMGR.VOTING_PREC_092011 REQUIRED: The person responsible for the metadata information.
- Snowfall reports for Denver's February snowstorm, Feb. 2-4, 2012
- Area C Samples
- Merge of 'Large/Medium U.S. Military Bases, 2009' into 'MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS_RANGES_TRAINING_AREAS_PT'
- Merge of 'Large/Medium U.S. Military Bases, 2009' into 'MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS_RANGES_TRAINING_AREAS_PT'
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