Developing with GeoCommons and GeoIQ just got easier in Ruby with the GeoIQ Ruby Gem – a wrapper around the REST API.
We have fuller, detailed documentation about the REST API, but using this open source gem, it’s possible for Ruby developers to get quickly started interacting with the system.
What it does [...]
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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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On Friday and Saturday of last week I attended an Digital Humanities API workshop at MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities). The event was mix of scheduled speakers in the morning and unconference in the afternoon with a variety of technologists from different backgrounds.
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 →
Today we announced the release of the GeoCommons Chrome App in the Chome Web Store. Essentially it works as a short-cut to GeoCommons, which is no different than many of the apps in the Chrome Web Store. I’m going to walk through the steps to create your own Chrome App.
Continue Reading →This week has seen the unveiling of a new feature from within GeoCommons.com -Â support for adding WMS and Tile layers
WMS So, you may be asking “What on earth is WMS?” well, it stands for Web Map Service and put simply is a service through which people can publish and serve out [...]
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.
Continue Reading →In the past obtaining help with technical questions regarding the GeoIQ API and tools has been an ad hoc combination of  Twitter, GetSatisfaction and email.  Today we are moving technical questions over to the GeoIQ Developer Google Group.  This way there is an easy searchable resource to see what has already [...]Continue Reading →
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 →
GeoIQ Blog- TechCamp April 30, 2012 Andrew Turner
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- World Bank Annual Meetings April 23, 2012 Andrew Turner
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- GeoIQ team at Where2.0, JSConf, FOSS4G-NA March 22, 2012 Andrew Turner