Open Source

A City of Cornwall employee has been recognized for his efforts in creating a unique on-line mapping site for the City. GIS Applications Specialist Denis Lalonde of the City of Cornwall (Ontario, CA) received the gold medal prize in the Best Web GIS category of the Best Geographic Information...

I've been moderating sessions today at the Location Intelligence Conference. I'm very pleased all my speakers have stayed within their time; it makes my life so much easier. It also means we have time for a good number of questions. The session on Embedded Geospatial Capabilities in Enterprise...

The Associated Press is leaving other mapping systems and Flash behind with a new HTML based map to be used for its interactive media offerings. Among the tools used are TileMill (to make the map tiles) and Leaflet (for the JavaScript interaction) according to Michelle Minkoff, Interactive...

There are many innovative and interesting people in the list of 15 people in the 2012 class of Emerging Explorers (11 men, 4 women for those counting). Each receives a $10,000 grant from National Geographic. I was happy to recognize two names with which I've become very familiar. Patrick...

Ushahidi: Frameworks for Effective Platform Management is a four-week, online course from TechChange, running this summer from June 4th – 29th. What has us most excited about this course is our approach toward one the highest-profile and most utilized programs in the current generation of...

April 25 is World Malaria Day. What' new? The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a new initiative in combating malaria called ‘T3: Test, Treat, Track’, which urges malaria-endemic countries and donors to “move towards universal access to diagnostic testing and antimalarial treatment, and to...

I got a preview of MapStory.org (or is it Mapstory - the site has it both ways) last week at FOSS4GNA. It was scheduled to launch last Thursday and is now up an running. What is it? There is no "about" page, so I can only tell you what I think it is. It's a platform for collecting datasets...

MapBox ‏ @MapBox "spacial data is not special, it is a column in a database" @byrne_tweets keynoting @foss4gna on how the @FCC opens data. Peter Batty ‏ @pmbatty  "We will decide on a data retention policy when we run out of disk space" - typical business, says Josh Berkus at...

Michael Byrne, Geographic Information Officer (GIO) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), started with this idea: The FCC doesn’t make paper maps. Why not? Because people want interactive maps. Which led to the title of his talk: "I believe in URLs." Byrne and his team have two key...

The Day 1 afternoon panel was titled Gaps and Voids in Open Source Geo Technology. The idea was to have those in the know highlight what was “still” missing in open source geospatial offerings, offer some insights into why and even offer solutions. The panel included the following folks who...