This tip off comes from the Victora, BC, Canada – based Latitude Geographics as the team has announced the release of Geocortex Essentials 4 This from the Geocortex blog… After eighteen months of infrastructure development, we have reached an important milestone in the ongoing evolution of Geocortex technology. Today we are announcing the release of […]
OpenStreetMap Edits – 20 million and counting!
Some of the latest stats from the OSM gang reveal 20 million edits to the popular OSM basemap and counting…
BullyVention maps Bullying in America
How do you increase awareness about the important topic of Bullying… you create a heat map naturally! Indeed, that’s exactly what one savvy youngster from Virgina has been doing via a project know ass BullyVention. About the effort… Viraj Puri, a 13 year old student from Fairfax County, Virginia, wants to create the only known […]
Denver Broncos Super Bowl Sunday 14ers Google Map
Some Google maps fun on the heels of the announcement by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper that the Colorado Rockies mountains known as the 14ers (think elevation above 14,000 ft) have been temporarily, officially renamed to honor the super Bowl bound Denver Broncos. From the official announcement… Gov. John Hickenlooper today announced a proclamation that temporarily […]
Super Bowl Transit Perks! Brand New NYC Subway Maps For The Super Bowl
There’s no doubt that New York and New Jersey will be seeing some awesome economic benefits and perks as a result of hosting the 2014 Super Bowl. One added perk of being the host area is maps, in particular, sweet, new Transit maps! This from the Business Insider who’ve reported on the MTA rolling out […]
10 Considerations For Planning Your Next Hackathon
Hackathons… all the cool kids are doing them! Yes indeed, with the plethora of opendata being made available to the masses there’s no better way to get started than to hack. You know, a group of geeks gets together over pizza, beer and redbull, downloads a ton of data, cracks open their favorite SDKs, APIs […]
2014 Southern Resident Killer Whale Satellite Tagging
22 January – As of the morning of the previous map (16 January) the whales were off Port Angeles. They continued east into Puget Sound, circumnavigating Vashon Island on Saturday, and then made an excursion up into Saratoga Passage on the east side of Whidbey Island. They headed back south and exited Puget Sound on […]
Time to Code Canada! The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) Hackathon #GCA4
The Canadian Open Data Experience – CODE – is a 48 hour nationwide hackathon where innovators compete to build the best open data apps! — Taking a completely new approach to the creation of teams for this first national open data hackathon, CODE participants can create a team online and in a second step select […]
illustreets Exemplifies the power of Open Data Enabling Anyone to Explore England
You know the scenario… you want to move to a new city and you’d like to find out where the best places are to live, however, you know nothing about the region at all. Have you been there? Well, there’s great news, particularly for people wanting to locate great places to live in England thanks […]
The Colorblind Tubemap for iOS and Android
Here’s a clever app that’s built on one of London’s most iconic maps, the London Tube map. But, this app has a spin on it, the maps are served up in a number of ways, using cartographc enhancements and color variations in order to be more usable to those with vision issues such as color […]