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 their own perspectives and insights into what they’ve accomplished – but there is a lot that has changed.
There are small touch-ups throughout the platform, Semprebon‘s preview images of datasets and maps, to larger capabilities such as data editing and versioning (did someone say “git for data?”). And clearly the most pronounced change was an entire rewrite of “the App formerly known as Maker” (TAFKAM) – simply put, our map visualization. We’re still using the very powerful and capable Flash engine, and Andrei has performed some magic to render a lot of features (think 100′s of thousands) but we’ve moved the rest of our entire interface to JavaScript and HTML thanks to Derek. The benefit of that is that with our beta Polymaps support from Chris you can now not only view maps on your iPad, but you can build visualizations and analyses on your iPad!
And lastly, but most importantly yet not nearly as noticeable, we’ve swapped out our infrastructure. Matt and Justin have raised GeoCommons completely to the cloud where we’re now able to easily scale out any piece of our infrastructure on demand. Combine that with Tim‘s work with our asynchronous processing we have truly brought geospatial data management, visualization and spatial analysis to the cloud – free for everyone to use.
Stay tuned for more details on these features I’ve mentioned, including some technical details on how we’ve scaled out our system to provide unique and capable data analysis to the web. And don’t think we’re stopping there – this new infrastructure has already enabled us to quickly add new features and tweaks. We’d love to hear your feedback, praise, or any issues you run into on our Community forum. And if you’re a passionate GeoCommons user, a developer and want to work for a fun, dynamic, and exciting team – drop us a line.
5 Responses to GeoCommons ’2.0′ – with more developer goodness
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[...] can check out more detail on how developers can leverage 2.0 in Andrew’s blog post on the developer site. If you would like a guided tour of all the new features click here to get [...]
[...] Posted by Caitlin Dempsey on 6/01/11 • Categorized as Community Geography,GIS Industry News var addthis_product = 'wpp-257'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"ui_language":"en"};GeoIQ (formerly FortiusOne) has announced the launch of GeoCommons 2.0. GeoCommons is a crowdsourced repository for data and maps created by users. Since its launch in 2008, the site has over 28,000 users and 508,000 freely available data layers. That activity has resulted in the sharing of over 2.5 million data sets and been used to create 9.5 million maps across the web. The newly revamped GeoCommons.com site is the result of enhancements to the GeoIQ platform which. Andrew Turner outlines some of the changes in his blog post “GeoCommons ’2.0′ – with more developer goodness.” [...]
[...] Posted by Caitlin Dempsey on 6/01/11 • Categorized as Community Geography,GIS Industry News var addthis_product = 'wpp-257'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"ui_language":"en"};GeoIQ (formerly FortiusOne) has announced the launch of GeoCommons 2.0. GeoCommons is a crowdsourced repository for data and maps created by users. Since its launch in 2008, the site has over 28,000 users and 508,000 freely available data layers. That activity has resulted in the sharing of over 2.5 million data sets and been used to create 9.5 million maps across the web. The newly revamped GeoCommons.com site is the result of enhancements to the GeoIQ platform which. Andrew Turner outlines some of the changes in his blog post “GeoCommons ’2.0′ – with more developer goodness.” [...]
[...] did a couple of sessions, one on a preview of GeoCommons2.0 talked about in a previous post and the other a psychogeography session. For the psychogeography [...]
[...] did a couple of sessions, one on a preview of GeoCommons2.0 talked about in a previous post and the other a psychogeography session. For the psychogeography [...]