March 19 was all about climate and climate change! A high profile event took place in D.C. yesterday to formally launch the Climate Data Initiative, an ambitious new effort bringing together extensive open government data and design competitions with commitments from the private and philanthropic sectors to develop data-driven planning and resilience tools for local […]
News, PR Tip – My Secret For Press Release Writing and Distribution Made Easy
Here’s your dilemma, the boss has asked you to create a nice PR release to share an announcement with the World. You spend hours crafting a nicely worded release, double check the spelling, the grammar, and you fact check everything – now what? Well, you need to get the news out there. If you have […]
Mapping Instagram Photos and the Selfiest Cities in the World
You may have noticed recently that Time Magazine (online) has generated a little bit of buzz by jumping on the “selfie” hysteria that has carried over from the Oscars (ya thanks Ellen for inventing the selfie!). In an interesting read that has very little science to support the findings, Time has generated a ranking of […]
Telenav OSM Contest Winner Announced; New Map MapRoulette Contest Offers Chance for a trip to SOTM
This comes via TeleNav and shares details of their first OSM mapping contest winner as well as details of an awesome new prize in their next competition
CrowdSourcing Imagery to Help Find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
A couple of efforts have been announced to help scour the vast collection of recently collected imagery for any sign of Flight 370 that may have been recorded by a data collection sensor.
GeoGeek Reading – 7 Free e-Pub downloads for the week-end
A few GeoGeek training tips here for the week-end. Tradepubs provides hundreds (perhaps thousands) of free, downloadable resources and white papers.
The Geography of Home Foreclosures in the USA, Feb 2014
Some interesting stats on the state of the housing market from CoreLogic reveal some interesting patterns and identify hotspots on the map when it comes to home foreclosures
App Challenge Tip – GoCode Colorado
Here’s an opportunity for coders, developers, mashup artists or ?? on the Front Range – enter GoCode Colorado. The Kick off event is March 19
Geography community Will Miss Dr. Roger Tomlinson – the Father of GIS
A loss to the Community… regrets to share that Dr. Tomlinson has passed away…this comes via the CAG Academic discussion list Tomlinson is generally recognized as the “father of GIS.” He is the visionary geographer who conceived and developed the first GIS for use by the Canada Land Inventory in the early 1960s. This and […]
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…