A few days old but still worth a click: GIS Lounge lists all videotaped keynotes from the Where 2012. And despite the mildly annoying autoplay embedded video, you should go there and breathe the future of geo.
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a thesis in the making
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stamen design released a wonderful mapstyle named watercolor as well as a how-to. And it’s just plain beautiful. If you add some labels you could actually use it as a map. The rendering isn’t perfect (the example at the left illustrates this since there should be a waterbody next to the stadium) but “Wow”. I [...]
Very nice visualization of OSM-GPS Points by Steven Kay. As he mentions you see some flights and boat trips which obviously recorded tracks and the glowing center of OSM in Europe. It would be nice to see Africa, India, China and the whole world in bright colors but there’s a lot of work to do.
The image you see on the left is kind of a pre-atomic-age-GPS. It’s a device from 1932 which shows the current location of your car. But 1932 – how does this even work? The device rolls a printed map according to your travel speed and therefore displays your position. Of course it’s use is very [...]
There’s a tool for everything. A short story about the use of R instead of a full blown Desktop-GIS solution: Before, During and After: The Richest 1 Percent.
Crowdmap, a VGI-based service by Ushahidi, gained quite some importance during the arab uprisings. One of the sadest and horrifying uprising happening has also an own portal on Crowdmap, which was recently updated to aggregate more information from mutliple sources. As sad as the sheer numbers, the site contains links to very graphic material. Use [...]
Since Google imposed their license for 25.000+ mapviews per day, there has been a mildly higher interest on Twitter for switching to OSM. Most small businesses or private persons may shrugged their shoulders: “25k mapviews? I’m glad if I get 250 visitors per Day.” The real downturn for businesses relying on GMaps isn’t that obvious. [...]
The title may seem a bit bold but it points out the current state of my thesis. I am looking for interview partners. So, if you’re working in or involved in the wide field of Open Data / Geodata don’t hesitate to contact me! I’ll soon post a my interview guidelines so can see the [...]
After a few hours spend in the library I am on the edge to write the first chapter. It seems as it will be highly theoretical but nevertheless worthwhile to write since it lays out one half of my theoretical framework. For those who are interested: the chapter will deal with value creation as a [...]