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open data
- Open Buildings
Google has released a massive dataset of building footprints, extracted from high resolution satellite imagery: The dataset contains 1.8 billion building detections, across an inference area of 58M km2 within Africa,ā¦
- OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment
My friend Joe Morrison wrote an excellent piece on the current state of corporate investment in OpenStreetMap: The four companies in the inner circle ā Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft ā have a combined market cā¦
- Weekend Reading: Looking Glass Politics, Enrichment, and OSM Datasets
š Looking-Glass Politics On private emotions being thrown into the public sphere: People escape the Dunbar world for obvious reasons: life there appears prosaic and uninspiring. They find a digital interface and, likā¦
- Library JSON
Tom Critchlow proposes an open format to create a decentralized, open web version of what Goodreads does ā a book social network. Thinking through building some kind of āweb of booksā I realized that we could use someā¦
- Weekend Reading: Chess, COVID Tracking, and Note Types
ā Chess Tom MacWright on chess. Reduce distraction, increase concentration Once you have concentration, you realize that thereās another layer: rigor. Itās checking the timer, checking for threats, checking for any ofā¦
- Weaving Books Into the Web
The Internet Archive has transformed 130,000 references to books in Wikipedia into live links to 50,000 digitized Internet Archive books in several Wikipedia language editions including English, Greek, and Arabic. Andā¦
- MapSCII
I love that people out in the open source world still build things like this. It's an xterm-compatible renderer for accessing interactive map from a terminal console. I even tried it from a console on an EC2 instanceā¦
- Assisted Tasks for OpenStreetMap
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has been working on an experimental version of the Tasking Manager tool that incorporates deep learning-assisted mapping projects. The OSM community has long been (and still largelyā¦
- A Growing Geo Community: Takeaways from FOSS4G NA 2019
I had a great time last week out in San Diego for this year's FOSS4G-NA. This post I wrote for the company blog runs down general conference takeaways, plus a wavetops overview with best-of sessions I attended. It wasā¦
- Humanitarian Exchange Language
Last week I learned about HXL, a "data markup" standard to help humanitarian orgs more easily share and combine datasets. Datasets from different producers or agencies may actually contain the same type of data ā admiā¦
- The Opportunity Project
We've spent the last 6 months or so working with the team at the US Census Bureau on something called The Opportunity Project, a recurring initiative quarterbacked by the Census to bring together creators, government,ā¦
- OpenAerialMap: Open Drone Imagery for Humanitarians
I wrote up a post for the Fulcrum blog on using OpenAerialMap with Fulcrum Community. As we invest more in building out our Community platform this year, I'm excited to do more with integrating OAM into our tools. Forā¦
- Weekend Reading: Fulcrum in Santa Barbara, Point Clouds, Building Footprints
šØš½āš Santa Barbara County Evac with Fulcrum Community Our friends over at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff have been using a deployment of Fulcrum Community over the last month to log and track evacuations for flooā¦
- Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundiās Capital, and SRTM
š Mastery Learning and Creative Tasks Khan Academyās Andy Matuschak on tasks that require ādepth of knowledgeā versus those that have higher ātransfer demand.ā Both can be considered ādifficultā in a sense, but teachā¦
- Topography, Bathymetry, Toponymy
In this latest cartography project I'm working on, I'm rediscovering the tedium of searching for appropriate data. I'll grant that it's amazing how much high quality data is produced and freely distributed, but givenā¦
- topoView
I'm working on a special side project right now, getting myself back into cartography a bit. The last time I did any serious cartography work was with TileMill, probably 4 or 5 years ago. This time I'm trying my handā¦
- Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping
This week is some reading, but some simple admiring. I wanted to highlight the work of two cartographers I follow that is fantastic. We live in a great world that people can still make a living producing such work. šā¦
- Video Mapping in OpenStreetMap with Fulcrum
With tools like Mapillary and OpenStreetCam, itās pretty easy now to collect street-level images with a smartphone for OpenStreetMap editing. Point of interest data is now the biggest quality gap for OSM as compared tā¦
- Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
š±iPad Diaries: Typing on the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio I swung through an Apple Store a couple of weeks ago to check out the new hardware. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been hard to imagine the experienceā¦
- An Open Database of Addresses
One of the coolest open source / open data projects happening right now is OpenAddresses, a growing group effort assembling around the problem of geocoding, the process of turning human-friendly addresses into spatialā¦
- Bringing Geographic Data Into the Open with OpenStreetMap
This is an essay I wrote that was published in the OpenForum Academy's "Thoughts on Open Innovation" book in early summer 2013. Shane Coughlan invited me to contribute on open innovation in geographic data, so I wroteā¦
- Creating New Contributors to OpenStreetMap
I wrote a blog post last week about the first few months of usage of Pushpin, the mobile app we built for editing OpenStreetMap data. As I mentioned in the post, I'm fascinated and excited by how many brand new OpenStā¦
- Fixing Geography in Education
I believe our higher education system is not properly preparing students of geography & GIS for the workplace, especially when it comes to modern mapping technology. This was a talk from the FOSS4G Ignite session on mā¦
- OSM Tampa Bay
At the start of 2012, I started a meetup group (OSM Tampa Bay) for the local Tampa-St. Petersburg to get together and contribute to OpenStreetMap. This talk was from our first WhereCampTB event, to get our local mappeā¦
- Local Knowledge
Here are the slides from my talk at the first ever Ignite Tampa Bay. It was a blast to watch all the great talks from such a varied set of interests and passions. Great turnout, too — we drew a sellout crowd outā¦