Posts by: Chris Helm

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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JSConf 2011 in Review

On May 5, 2011 By Chris Helm

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 [...]

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Hey Everybody!

Today we’re celebrating GeoIQ’s expansion with an official announcement of our expansion westward and the opening of our Denver office. Denver, and the Front Range of Colorado in general, has been a hotspot in the “geo” space for awhile now, and our new office is positioned right smack dab in the [...]

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Thoughts on StrataConf

On February 14, 2011 By Chris Helm

This post is a little belated due to a busy couple weeks, but nevertheless here are some of highlights from Strata last week:

A couple weeks ago Andrew and I were at Strata, an O’Reilly conference focused on really big data. Overall the conference was a good experience, I cant say it was [...]Continue Reading

Tomorrow evening myself, Brian Timoney, and Peter Batty will be giving a multi-part talk on all things geo at the Boulder/Denver Geospatial Technologists meetup in Boulder, CO. We’ll kick the talk off at 6:30 pm with Peter giving an intro to our topic: “Geo in the Cloud”. The three of us will be talking [...]Continue Reading

A technical introduction to Acetate, a new series of basemap styles from FortiusOne.

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A few weeks ago we released the ability to access maps created within GeoCommons via a javascript mapping interface based on Polymaps. This capability opens up a whole new realm of possibilities: mobile platform development, customized map interfaces, and the generally awesome features of HTML5.

However, as a developer you may have an existing [...]Continue Reading