Tumblr is great! Tumblr brings you straight awkward blogs like kim jong-il looking at things, somewhat artistic ones like If We Don’t, Remember Me or funny ones like hungover owls. Now, the OSM-Community has one these remarkable blogs, too: Worst of OSM, where strange mapping attempts are documented. It’s not that deep contentwise, but shows [...]
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Great Podcast about sharing data. The main question is: how do you share geodata? Via an API? Via Download? Go find out.
The FOSSGIS 2012 started yesterday and is underway until tomorrow. I’ll keep this post updated as the presentations come in. #fossgis2012 Presentation about Geoportal Deutschland. To develop a dashboard for the german public geodata seems in federal germany like kamikaze. Every state will highly be sceptical about the one dashboard to rule them all. But [...]
Together with my peers at CLIC I published a paper called Open Geodata meets Open Government – eine empirische Studie interaktiver Wertschöpfungs-modelle. Grab the PDF (it’s written in German) and let me know what you think. It features first findings of my ongoing research outlining stakeholders, their competencies and effects of open geodata. Have a [...]
So. The winners of the App4Germany-Competition have been announced. I am happy for the winners but even happier for the outcome. There are 13 Apps which are further explained on a dedicated page. Out of these 12 aren’t even conceivable without geodata – some relevancy for the exploration of open geodata.
So, the OSM-Community wondered about some strange damages to their data coming from a Google IPs. The details aren’t exactly distinct but these actions came at most from a Google contractor. So, the implicit thesis behind this news “Google tries to beat up their rivals” seems just placative and untrue. But anyway, that leads to [...]
Poetry MapThat’s quite something! Katharine Whitcomb, Robert Hickey, and Marco Thompson are putting together a anthology/map called: A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology. Make poetry spatial – really neat idea. Alternatives to Google MapsThat’s a bit more for the coders than for direction seekers. Antiona Santiago blogged a nice compilation of [...]
Apple acquires patent for location-based-servicesThat surely doesn’t sound too good. Apple’s legal department is not known for their delicacy Create Maps for Wikipedia or other PublicationsGIS Lounge has an interesting article about ShareMap.org which gives a brief overview on the topic of creating readable, simple maps for publications. Great service by first glance. Teaching FOSSGISDirectionsMag [...]
Some FOSS4G presentations were made available onlineSomething to learn, guarenteed. A Cartography of the AnthropoceneThis is straight amazing! Even though the underlying might not be the most accurate, the visualization is world class. A real pleasure to look at and a sturdy reminder of what how our daily lifes change the planet.
Licensed Data vs. Open DataMapQuest updates its FAQ and explains the pros and cons of Open/Licensed Geodata GeoIQ Launches SocialThe data we produce will be more and more visible/physical. Spain Launches National Data Portal Google Charging for Google Maps API Access? So What?Google is charging, beginning in 2012, the usage of their Maps API. Will [...]