January 2012
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Supermarket API Could Save Companies $100K+... →
dhgisme:
Any company building apps or platforms to improve the consumer shopping experience knows that grocery product data is EXPENSIVE, costing $100,000+ annually to license. This data is often poorly structured and out of date, forcing those who purchase it to spend significant resources…
December 2011
15 posts
The SOPA Map
geomurmur:
#Blogs http://bit.ly/vckJ23
Hack Tyler: Tyler Sirens: a visual police scanner →
hacktyler:
Launch Tyler Sirens »
Tyler Sirens presents nearly-up-to-the-minute incident report data from Tyler Police Department. However, if it were just that it wouldn’t be much different from the Tyler Morning Telegraph’s Police Call Map. What Tyler Sirens adds is real-time updates. If…
Collective protests highlight a 21st Century... →
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What do the the Arab Spring, Anonymous, the Occupy movement, Iranian election protests, Anti-Putin protests, the #VileKyle push and the #Qantasluxury incident all have in common? Each of them was a demonstration of collective action b…
Collective protests highlight a 21st Century crisis for traditional government http://flpbd.it/45iP
It Only Takes a Girl →
ItOnlyTakesaGirl, youtube.com
It only takes a girl
November 2011
57 posts
Stop talking about engagement and get on with it →
Google Maps Charging Fewer Than 1%, MapQuest 0% →
Vancouver's Buses Live on Google Maps →
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Vancouver’s Next Bus has created a live real-time map of the city’s bus network. The Next Bus Google Map shows all the city’s bus-stops with blue ‘T’ markers. If you click on a bus-stop marker you can view the scheduled times of the next…
Vancouver B.C. Starts Live bus Tracking on Google Maps
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The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is... →
While climate change’s harshest effects won’t be felt for two or three more decades, “it would not surprise me if one of these years we get a fairly serious drought” in a major coffee-producing country like Brazil, Baker says. “That could cause coffee scarcity for quite a prolonged period.” Coffee production will continue to experience booms and busts, but Baker asserts that “in the long run,...
Transit Hackers Take Philly for a Ride →
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How the DC's Metro Opened Up Its Data →
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Jon Mitchell: How Storifying Occupy Wall Street... →
In the dead of night on Monday, November 14, Zuccotti Park in New York City was raided by police. In the preceding days, there were crackdowns at several of the major Occupy protests around the country. The effort had apparently been coordinated between cities. Monday night’s actions against the original Occupy Wall Street encampment were stern, heavy enough to bring a decisive end to the...
Updates on Mark Bosworth ( #findmarkbosworth ) and...
geomurmur:
#GISLounge http://bit.ly/tDcCRr
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Tracking Invasive Species with Google Maps
geomurmur:
#Blogs http://bit.ly/tSqdXg
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Attend TransportationCamp DC in January #gov20 →
Join us in DC in January for an unconference on transportation and technology. Plus, we’re excited to pass on news about TransportationCamp MTL in December
VIA TransportationCamp
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NYC Open Data: Congratulations to the winners and... →
nycopendata:
Congratulations to the winners and everyone who participated in this weekend’s Big Apps 3.0 Hackathon at Pivotal Labs!
The 1st prize winner was “Don’t Park Here!” designed by @Eric Rafaloff which tells users if it is legal to park in a space in real-time.
The 2nd prize winner…
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Ushahidi2ArcGIS – Ushahidi instance into ArcGIS
geomurmur:
#GISUser #News http://bit.ly/tEBt17
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Feds Offer Data For Do-It-Yourself Maps #gov20 →
The Department of Interior collaborated with other agencies to launch a new online public repository of geospatial data, services, and applications and let people use it to build their own maps.
Via Informationweek
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Luke Fretwell: How Tumblr Can Help Government... →
When the blogging platform Tumblr was added to apps.gov, a number of agencies set up sites of their own, including the General Services Administration, State Department, Peace Corps and National Archives.
Via Fedscope
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OpenGeo – Higher Education Questionnaire →
OpenGeo is evaluating offering training sessions for GIS instructors at colleges and universities. If you are affiliated with an academic institution, please answer the following questions so we can gauge interest. This form is intended to be filled out by GIS users and instructors in academica. If you would like to find out more or discuss your specific needs please contact us…
Take the...
The Economist: GPS and sport: Location, location,... →
SPORT is no stranger to the global positioning system (GPS). Satellite tracking has been used for more than ten years to map ski routes over rugged terrain, compare rowing stroke rates and boat speeds. It even settled the debate about which ball sport required athletes to run the greatest distance during a match (Australian football, apparently). Two Australian companies are pushing the...
Robert Baldwin: How to Be a Citizen Journalist... →
Last night, while the local news affiliate was off refueling its helicopter, police fired tear gas into a crowd of Occupy Oakland protesters. Which made citizen journalists, who captured and distributed the action even while being assailed, themselves, suddenly indispensable… [Read more on Gizmodo]
This is a particularly fitting post for those trying to tell the story of the deadline...
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Alexander Howard: Apps for Entrepreneurs Looks to... →
If you’re a developer or entrepreneur and want to help others in that space, you may find a new challenge of interest: Apps for Entrepreneurs. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of challenges, read up on collaborative innovation in open government. The big question that such contests are helping to answer is whether the vision of participatory democracy outlined by Thomas Jefferson,...
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The Spread of Zero Sum Mindsets
brooklyner:
“The spread of zero sum mindsets But it gets even worse. As we shorten our time horizons, we become prisoners of a zero sum mindset. If we only focus on the short-term, we must accept things as they are. There’s a given set of economic value – it’s a fixed amount. If we only have a fixed amount of economic value, then we start to focus on who will get what share of the pie. If you get...
Who's the Genius in Our Midst That We're Not... →
Tom Denari via Advertising Age
Geniuses make themselves evident by having ideas bigger than we can conceive; it seems that they can see the future. Their thinking is highly disciplined, even though their behavior might not be. They appear fearless.
Why don’t we listen?
First, geniuses can be annoying, as pragmatism is not their strong suit. They don’t live in the same reality as the rest...
Portland's Alta rides bike-sharing wave [to NYC] →
via Sustainable Business Oregon
The Portland bike world is over the moon since the city of New York tapped a local firm to operate its ambitious bike share program.
New York City selected Alta Bicycle Share Inc., an affiliate of Portland-based Alta Planning & Design, and its Canadian partner, Bixi, to establish a $50 million, 600-station, 10,000-bike share program by 2012.
The New York...
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James Fee: Geoplatform.gov — Yet another... →
VIA The James Fee Blog
So it is just like every other government portal, irrelevant to most people and has a quirky interface most users can’t figure out. These geo-government portals just remind me of a movie where they day keeps repeating.
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How the 99% and the Tea Party can Occupy... →
The conventional wisdom is that the American people are too cynical, too jaded, and too burnt out on politics to ever engage with the actual governance of our country by getting involved in discussions of policy. I don’t believe that’s true; I think if it’s made engaging and accessible enough, ordinary citizens will directly engage in how policy is made, and improve its...