Open Source

As of today OpenStreetMap users with a modern browser will automatically use the new iD editor, the result of the Knight New Challenge grant. Users can switch between iD (open source, available on github) and the existing Flash-based Potlatch 2 editor (soon to be the intermediate tool).  The...

As TechCrunch just reported this morning, we are teaming up with Skybox, the microsatellite and analytics company, to design new interfaces for visualizing rapid satellite imagery collection. The timing of this collaboration is perfect - later this year, Skybox will be launching the first two...

  The TeachGIS website is online. TeachGIS.org is the brain-child of Diana Sinton and a posse of other GIS-teaching, map-loving, spatial-thinking folks, mostly from higher education.  As a community of practice, we created this site as a venue where expert and novice instructors of...

The Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association has awarded Holliston, MA a $10,000 grant to implement a GIS. The Association provides the town with property and causuality insurance. PeopleGIS will do the implentation; I expect the company will use its open source-based SimpliCITY...

Jonathan Feldman is the chief information officer for the city of Asheville, NC. He keeps computer networks and technology working for both staffers and citizens. And, he thinks of his team as a startup. He encourages testing and piloting to see what works. For instance, GIS analysts in his...

Keeping an Eye on Online Test-Takers Cost of online proctoring? $15-$90. A whole new biz! #edtech How Google And Bing Maps Control What You Can See The latest on satellite imagery/aerial imagery censorship A Real-Time Map of the Odds on Where the Next Pope Will Come From Why? My guess?...

All sorts of formal and informal organizations need to collect location-related data including nonprofits, cities, and community groups. They might use the data to enhance environmental causes, support political campaigns, map local assets, or perform fundraising. But, the data collection itself...

In a detailed blog post at CloudMade lays out keys milestones frome the past four years and introduces three new mapping platform offerings. The last news I reported from Cloudmade was about its in-game sponsoring platform, Zigi in Oct 2012. That was, from what I understood, the plan for a pivot...

  Nokia opens up Here platform with an eye to the future Google Maps birdhouses provide shelter, navigational aid for winged travelers  Wife wins divorce after map-reading row  Nominate foss4g Projects for Open Source for America Awards; past winner: OpenLayers Physical...

  Every meteorite fall on earth mapped  … data download available, too.  Augmented reality for edu maps uses Layar. Buy map, hang map on wall, look at with iPad. Looks like there will be some GIS in this HarvardX MOOC on Hist of China. Students will create the content. Final...