Some of you were noticing that the Intersection analysis was a bit slow and we noticed that it was using quite a lot of memory – the larger the dataset, the worse it performed. We tackled this head on and have rolled out a much better algorithm, which, I’ve measured as being between 7 [...]
Hi, in this quick tutorial we will have a look at a new JavaScript mapping library, Leaflet using it to help load JSON features from a GeoCommons dataset. We will add our Acetate tile layer to the map, and use the cool API feature filtering functionalities to get just the features we [...]Continue Reading →
Loading KML Files So lets say you have a bunch of kml files you want to load into Geocommons. Of course, its fairly easy to load these through the web UI, but if you need to do this often enough, it would be nice to have a program to do it for you – after [...]
Continue Reading →We realized that this post was just too useful for only developers, so we moved it over to the main GeoIQ Blog.
I’ll be posting up some details on how the Fusion Tables adapter works under the hood in GeoIQ and how we can actually connect into a lot of [...]
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Today we launched the major refresh of GeoCommons – essentially “2.0″ as we were literally up to that version number anyways, but it also fits a lot of what we’ve done under the hood. I don’t want to give it all away – each of the team members will be sharing [...]
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This week my fellow GeoIQ engineer Derek Carter and I attended JSConf 2011 in Portland, OR. If you don’t know about this conference, and what it’s like, you should find out. It’s not like many other conferences out there. It gathers an impressive list of the some the world’s most forward thinking JavaScript experts. There’s [...]
Continue Reading →Early next month is JSConf, which will be bringing some of our engineers to Portland. We thought it would be a great time to meet-up with some of our Portland friends and show what we’ve been working on. PIE has been gracious enough to provide us with a space on Sunday afternoon May 1st from noon until 6pm
Continue Reading →It was a cold and rainy Friday morning when I headed out to Reston, Virginia for RubyNation, a local ruby conference. Attending were hundreds of the Washington area’s finest ruby developers, as well as programmers from as far away as India. What follows are what I consider the highlights of the conference.
The opening [...]
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GeoIQ Blog- The evolution of discussion around the Boston Marathon events April 18, 2013 Stefan Novak
- Helping to Pioneer Real Time GIS with Social Streams March 8, 2013 Sean Gorman
- Modeling Twitter sentiment during the Oscars March 4, 2013 Stefan Novak
- CrisisCamp Sandy November 5, 2012 Andrew Turner
- Testing Social Media Viability for Disasters at Camp Roberts August 31, 2012 Sean Gorman