Next week, Chris and I will be trekking out to Portland, Oregon for the convergence that is known as OSCON (Open-Source Convention).
I’m speaking on day one at OSCON Data on Playful Explorations of Public and Personal Data. Open [...]
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The longest and most voluminous request on GeoCommons, since it’s launch, has been the ability to keep data private. While the broad ethos around GeoCommons has been collecting and sharing the world’s geographic data, the inability of use private data kept a good number of users from participating. Today we’ve removed that barrier and [...]
Continue Reading →Over the last few blog posts we’ve raised several problems with the current approach to GIS, but have not specifically offered solutions. At some point you have to stop being an armchair quarterback and provide suggestion for a path forward. Since our critique has meandered across multiple blog posts I thought it would be useful [...]
Continue Reading →I believe there has always been a bit of a myth in GIS circles that the quickly growing consumer side of maps/data eschews science. Whether you call it Neogeography, the GeoWeb or NoGIS there is a perception that traditional GIS is where you do hardcore science, and the new stuff is a vacuous world of [...]
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Yesterday we announced that we were making Analysis functions available or everyone on the GeoIQ community site, GeoCommons. As Sean pointed out, this is a revolution in opening access to the tools for anyone to ask their own questions of data without requiring desktop tools or long-training. It’s our hope that through open analysis [...]
Continue Reading →The core mission of GeoCommons is bringing the power of geography to the masses. First we focused on making data more accessible, then quality cartographic visualization of data, and today we’ve added geographic analysis of data. Over Christmas we blogged about the “12 Analytics of Christmas” we’d built for GeoIQ. We are celebrating Christmas in [...]
Continue Reading →Sharing geographic data and maps is at the core of GeoCommons, and today we took it one step further. You can now embed your maps directly into your Facebok feed allowing your friends to interact with a map right there an then. The best part is that you don’t need to do anything special: just [...]
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When we launched GeoCommons three years ago we had high hopes that it would turn into the vibrant community that it is today. However, I must admit that from a technological standpoint we did not fully predict what the underlying GeoIQ platform would become – a complex, scalable set of [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest improvements of Geocommons 2.0 over the previous version is the brand new map visualization engine – codename Sputnik. As was already pointed out here, here and here, we can now render tens of thousands objects extremely fast. For example, the map below map renders over 15,000 points [...]
Continue Reading →In the last blog post we talked about monolithic vs. distributed architectures. A key part of the argument is recognizing the massive value in the GIS monolith, but also realizing it is just one component of a larger whole. The new reality is a data ecosystem with many components and users. That said one of [...]
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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
- test 2 sam.felipe
- 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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