To be honest I haven’t played with Fusion Tables as much as I should have by now, but this weekend I thought, “why not?”. First off, I decided to try messing around and get some Fusion Tables data mapped in GeoCommons. As it turns out GeoCommons was fully ready for this, as was Fusion Tables, so doing this way all REALLY EASY. Since it was so easy I started, and nearly finished another , related hack, but more on that another day…
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I’m excited to announce that GeoIQ is adding a talented cartographer and web developer to our engineering team – Zachary Forest Johnson. I’ll let him introduce himself, but let me just say, he’s impressed me since the first time I came across his work three years ago, and it never hurts to flatter us with blogging about some cool hacks using our API.
Continue Reading →This week we released GeoCommons 2.0! We’ve gotten some really positive feedback from users on the new UI and the features we’ve added. I thought I’d write a series of short blog posts over the next few days that help introduce some features of the new GeoCommons and discuss a bit of the technical apsects [...]
Continue Reading →In the last post we talked about the emergence of location as a feature and geographic data production coming a variety of disparate sources with a range of accuracy and trust levels. This change in the paradigm of location data we believe also means the transition of the architectures we use to manage data and analysis. As the production, consumption and analysis of [...]
Continue Reading →We are excited to announce the launch of GeoCommons 2.0! The engineering team has done some amazing work to upgrade the GeoIQ platform across the board (If you’re unaware, GeoIQ is our software platform powering GeoCommons). As data volumes and rates have exploded from the emergence of social, local and mobile data the core [...]
Continue Reading →In the last post on the GeoIQ blog we talked about possible contradictions in the definition of GIS. Tom Buckley had an interesting point this may be more of an American phenomenon than a global one. Several others were more blunt in their adherence to GIS as the catch all term for location. Giving it some [...]
Continue Reading →There was a spurt of debate on Twitter today about what is GIS. Specifically, if many of the new innovations around location are all just re-skinned GIS or if it is something fundamentally different. The divide seems to be roughly between folks that are long time GIS users and folks new to space or [...]
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Today I’m speaking at the Harvard Center for Geospatial Analysis on Collaborative Analysis with GeoIQ and GeoCommons. We’ve been adding more capabilities for users to really start asking questions of data and exploring in order to gain new insights. Data is that common pivot point and geography in particular where subject matter [...]
Continue Reading →I was traveling yesterday and felt like I missed a lot of the conversation about the demise of Osama Bin Laden, so wanted to try and catchup a bit today. We set up a Twitter collection yesterday to capture conversations about Bin Laden in the wake of the news. The volumes, as noted elsewhere, [...]
Continue Reading →This year’s Where2.0 can be simply summarized in four words: less hype – more business, which in my opinion is a very welcome development. As we pointed out in a pre-Where2.0 post, yesterday’s experimental technologies have matured into market-proven businesses, and as location data proliferates every aspect of everyday life, more and more interesting [...]
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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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