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When Government Shuts Down Open Government – Canada Post Suing Over the use of the Postal Code
An interesting issue is unfolding in Canada and quite frankly its darned amazing! Imagine this, you have a website and offer some kind of product or service. You also use a map so users can search your product by Postal Code… uhoh, now you get a letter from Canada Post stating that they are suing […]
Mobile Market Trends show Apple users most loyal, T-Mobile customers most likely to bail
No huge surprise here, however, the numbers seem to qualify what may be the obvious… smartphone end users are becoming more savvy and less likely to be man-handled by leading mobile brands and the carriers! Research from Phoenix Marketing shows that while the Mobile Phone Market has Grown to Near Saturation Level, Customer Loyalty has […]
Live Mapping of San Fran Transit with LiveBus
Transit data is co cool and there’s no doubt that the transit app (on mobile) is now the defacto go-to example for coolness when it comes to mobile app development rather than the previous favorite pizza finder or coffee house locator examples. Thanks to James (@cageyjames) for tipping me off to this interesting article on […]
New online map allows students to plot goose nest-free routes through campus
This is simply awesome.. at the U of Waterloo (that’s in Ontario Canada) they have an open API and have recently come out with a pretty awesome map service that enables students to quickly create a map that routes you between buildings in a way that avoids goose droppings! The map service was developed in […]
Take part in our 2013 GISuser GeoTech Salary Survey
There’s always plenty of interest in ongoing Salary surveys, and so we’ve come out with one for GIS professionals. Here’s a short, non-intrusive poll that all of you are invited to participate in.. results will be made available soon! Source: Uploaded by user via Glenn on Pinterest To Date almost 100 people have already participated […]
10 Useful Must-Bookmark Resources for the SoLo Mobile Developer
There’s so many developer resources, portals, devzones and the like out there.. so where does one begin when they want to jump in to mobile app development? Obviously that depends on the platform of choice, the resources at hand and many other variables. Here’s 10 simple and useful mobile, social location (solo) dev resources that […]
Opening up Colorado With Open Data and Hackathons
I’ve been spending a little bit of time sniffing our OpenData resources, open government portals and related efforts (if you have details of a useful Open Government resource, portal or repository please share HERE). While doing so I’ve also stumbled onto some interesting resources and events. I’ve noticed that Colorado has some hacking going on […]
USGS Want You to Help Update and Crowd Source the National Map
Some interesting news out of the USGS as the org is adopting an OpenStreetMap (OSM) style for updates and is turning to you, the crowd, to help update the National Map.
Using Github to Fork Your Data and the Hello get world Example
Github is all the rage and becoming quite common (and useful) for many agencies, orgs and companies – just mention gihub or forking some data next time you walk past a Geo-Hipster and you’ll see them quickly get all excited! The City of Chicago is using github to host open data and I’m sure many […]