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Moving Past Push Pins

Moving Past Push Pins

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Moving Past Push Pins catalogs FortiusOne's new GeoCommons mashup program and its uses. Geocommons combines Google Earth with real-life datasets to create representative heat maps.

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Cell phone service providers: Who’s on top?

Moving Past Push Pins | December 17th 2009 by Mike Nelson

Are you getting a new cell phone for the Holidays?  Can't figure out which service provider to sign a contract with?  Maybe you have to renew your contract.. you might want to consider the following data before you make your move. As a member of t read more

Better Know a GeoCommons Feature - SpatiaLite

Moving Past Push Pins | December 15th 2009 by Mike Nelson

For Colbert fans the "Better Know a District" series is a familiar part of the Colbert Report. Today I'm kicking off my own series "Better Know a GeoCommons Feature." I'd like you to meet one of our lesser known export formats Spatialite. For thos read more

How to Embed Interactive Maps in your Blog

Moving Past Push Pins | December 14th 2009 by Mike Nelson

Here at GeoCommons we are trying to spread information to the public using maps as a way to better understand data. Maps are intuitive to read, and generally simple to understand, making them a great way to disseminate information. Blogs are also a g read more

U.S. Poverty and Income Estimates

Moving Past Push Pins | December 7th 2009 by Mike Nelson

Within the global community, poverty in the United States does not seem to be as immense of an issue as in many other world countries. For example, when you look at countries with populations earning below 2$ a day such as dozen of countries in Afric read more

Sustainable Developments in Europe

Geographies of Development | December 1st 2009 by ST Ledermann

Witnessing the rapid double-digit annual growth rates of organic agriculture over the past years, it is interesting to consider its future not just in aiding alleviating poverty in Africa, but also in its commercial heartland of Europe. As commentato read more

Dataset of the Day: Thanksgiving Giving and Food Banks

Moving Past Push Pins | November 24th 2009 by Mike Nelson

Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks and for many it is also a time for giving. I thought I would show how GeoCommons can be used to promote giving back this holiday. One way many individuals and families give during Thanksgiving is by donating t read more

More Adverse Reactions And Deaths Reported From The A/H1N1 (Swine…

Black Talk Blog | November 15th 2009 by Scotty Reid

Fear Mongering About The So Called Pneumonic Plague Influenza Virus (Influence Poison) Flu season 2008-2009: Total flu/pneumonia deathshttp://maker.geocommons.com/maps/5062Annual Flu Deaths: The Big LieBy Neil Z. Miller Every year, just prior to t read more

Want to be a GeoCommons Engineer?

Moving Past Push Pins | November 11th 2009 by Mike Nelson

It’s time for the FortiusOne GeoCommons team to expand again - and we’re looking for an incredibly bright, hard working, and team oriented engineer to head up our operations team. GeoCommons is unique among most web applications - it isn& read more

The U.S. Census and Housing Unit Estimates

Moving Past Push Pins | November 10th 2009 by Mike Nelson

Not long ago I posted a blog about the merits of having U.S. Census Bureau data available in GeoCommons. Part of my discussion was about accuracy and reliable sources of data. My claim was that I thought it was a safe assumption to make about gove read more

The Global Poverty Mapping Project

Moving Past Push Pins | October 29th 2009 by Mike Nelson

I recently tackled uploading some relatively complicated, yet highly informative data from The Global Poverty Mapping Project(GPMP).  The creators (Columbia University Ivy Leaguers) mission is to “enhance current understanding of the global di read more

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