Arise the Geo bubble
With the rise of geographic-interest via map mashups, mobile location, and geotags, there is now a slew of sites rising up to start aggregating and collecting all the of the localized information and...
View ArticleDan Catt on Flickr Map features
Dan Catt (of Geobloggers fame – now at Yahoo) talks about 3 hidden (less known) features of Flickr Maps. Specifically, he outlines how to get photos at a location by a simple url:...
View ArticleGeoRSS Metadata
Check out my post on GeoRSS Metadata over at the GeoRSS blog. Looking for some feedback and ideas on how to use the featuretypetag and relationshiptag elements of a GeoRSS entry. We’d like to put...
View ArticleGoogle’s ‘Geographic Web’ and conflicting interfaces
Brady points out on O’Reilly Radar some of the new layers in GoogleEarth. Most interesting though is his recap of feedback from Flickr’s Dan Catt on why Google isn’t currently displaying Flickr photos...
View ArticleMore Geoblogging tools: ecto and Geo-Blogging Toolkit
While traveling, its nice to be able to blog from a desktop application like ecto or MarsEdit. However, when you want to “geoblog”, you want to add some more metadata than just the title, content, and...
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iCommunity.tv – located media news
Chris Haller has recently released a very cool new localized news video site, iCommunity.tv. The site allows users to upload and geotag videos of their own news media around the world. iCommunity.tv is...
View ArticleGeoRSS Location Collections?
There is a discussion that crops up every once in awhile on the GeoRSS mailing list whether it is useful or appropriate to support ‘multiple locations’ in a single RSS item. For example, currently you...
View ArticleGeoRSS Implementation Matrix
The GeoRSS community has had a rapid-fire discussion on formats, standards, future and current status of some of the features in GeoRSS. One of the major points that has come out is the importance of...
View ArticleGoogle GeoRSS & Open-Source map utilities
I was gone for 5 days to the Ontario Curling Association’s Colts Provincial Playdowns, the top-tier competition after playing down against 130 other curling teams. We held our own, but the competition...
View ArticleGeoRSS site rebooted
As I posted on the GeoRSS Blog, we just recently relaunched the site using a CMS. Specifically, we’re using Drupal because of its excellent support of geospatial standards (and being the one who did...
View ArticleGeoTruc – standards tool
Mickaël ‘Korbinus’ Graf has released an improved geo:truc. If you haven’t tried it yet, geo:truc is a great and simple service for generating the GeoData markup in currently 8 different formats:...
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A Proposal – GeoRSS & KML
There has recently been a lot of discussion around KML becoming part of the OGC and the future of GeoRSS and KML. Will GeoRSS use KML payloads, or vice versa? Will one just subsume the other? After...
View ArticleGeoRSS Multiple Locations
A commonly requested feature addition to GeoRSS has been multiple locations per entry. Currently, GeoRSS only adds a single geometry per RSS or Atom entry. This was pragmatic and served the general...
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Geotag Icon
There has been a meme floating around about the new “Geotag Icon” that was originally proposed here and now has an officious site: Geotag Icon Project There has been a lot of dialog. Sean discusses a...
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Beijing Air Quality and Olympic Venues
During our trip to China in December Corrie and I definitely felt the effects of the poor air quality. This has also been the discussion for over a year leading up to the Beijing Olympics that start...
View ArticleOGC Geospatial Search Summit
Last Monday I participated in a Geospatial Search Summit hosted by the OGC as part of the quarterly Technical Committee (TC) meetings. The TC’s are primarily about various working groups discussing...
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BarCampDC2 – Open Government Data
The very first session I attended was moderated by Peter Corbett from iStrategyLabs and Dmitry Kachaev of the Office of the CTO for DC talking about open data from the government. The Princeton...
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VoteReport mapping and data feeds
Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with a great team of people helping to build VoteReport – an open public reporting system to be used during the 2008 US Election to track the situation as...
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FortiusOne is hiring – help build GeoCommons
Excited about the GeoWeb? Want to help build the next generation social mapping tools and work on some really awesome technology? The GeoCommons team is expanding and we’re looking for some...
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GeoFeed ‘pagination’
Erik Wilde was pondering: thinking of geofeeds where feed paging does not take you back in time, but increases the search radius. but how to specify paging semantics? My first feeling is that ‘zooming...
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